19% of US radio newsrooms still don’t do any digital editing

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

That's the implication of this report from RTDNA/Hofstra University. And a significantly larger portion seem to not be wholly digital in their capture/production process.

Interesting statistics on station numbers in the US

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

From RadioWorld: "There are a total of 30,473 licensed U.S. broadcast stations. That’s as of June 30, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Of that total, 14,355 are radio stations, breaking down as 4,789 AMs, 6,460 FM commercial and 3,106 FM non-commercial. Another 858 LPFMs are counted separately."

Un(der)employment figures worsen

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

There's something strange in the latest live register figures released today by the CSO. Not the increase of 87.1% in a single year - that, unfortunately, could be predicted. RTÉ's report mentioned that 71% of the increase was among men. [I should note that I'm using two sets of data here ...