Random music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Llamas 1, on-the-run criminal 0. Music news for February 17, 2026, is a home run. BONUS: What happens when you go into phone-free silence for a few days? It can be disturbing.
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Switzerland tried to move on from FM radio. Now may bring it back.
Digital Audio Broadcasting or DAB has long been touted as the successor to FM. Canada tried to make it happened about 25 years ago but because the US stubbornly refused to adopt the
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This could be the weirdest radio station ever. It broadcasts just one thing, and that thing is…
Earlier this year, the east of England suddenly got a new radio station. Its appearance was announced, and there’s no website for it. All it does is broadcast the sound of a moaning
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
AI doesn’t sleep or take vacations. Will humans be expected to keep up? One company insists employees work 84-hour weeks. Hell, no. Moving to music news for January 8, 2025… More music news?
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France will cease all FM radio broadcasting by 2033. This portends a problem for North America.
There’s a technological movement afoot in other parts of the world that could leave North America behind when it comes to radio broadcasting. Commercial AM radio has been with us since the early
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How is HD Radio doing in Canada? Let’s take a look.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back in 1999, a man in a van pulled up. “Wanna hear something cool?” Inside was a Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) receiver, demonstrating the
Read MoreWhat will happen to AM and FM broadcasts in the future? It’s a tech question that needs to be answered.
AM radio has been around since the beginning of broadcasting. FM was invented in the 1930s and surpassed AM as the band of choice in the 1980s. Both bands have had an excellent
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Attention UK readers: The Ongoing History of New Music is now available on British radio
Britain and the UK have embraced digital audio broadcasting (DAB), the form of radio that is quickly replacing FM in certain parts of the world. (We’ll never get DAB here because the US
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Random music news for Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Music news for All Hallow’s Eve Eve: October 30, 2018. Weekly Canadian music sales and streams vs. this point last year: Total albums, -21.2%; digital albums, -19.6%; physical albums, -22.1%; CDs, -25.8%; vinyl
Read MoreRandom music news for Saturday, May 19, 2018
I just have time to watch the Royal Wedding from an anti-monarchist pub down the street from my London hotel before I have to head to Heathrow. I’ll miss all the drunks following
Read MoreRandom Music News for Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Ready, set, SHOP! And if you have time, here’s the music news for December 26. Can you really blame this guy for what he did? I can’t. (Via Tom) You knew this was
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