Liberal Talk Radio

Hi folks, This week’s episode will be about 24 hours behind schedule, due to, um, some really crappy Seattle weather… or something.

So, we’ve been dreadfully remiss in not blogging more about internet radio issues. The Copyright Review Board just tripled royalty rates for internet broadcasters, which is driving many of them out of business. Fortunately for us, WA’s very own Jay Inslee is taking up the fight. Go Jay! As a policy matter, it strikes me [...]

Hey folks, For some reason, today’s episode didn’t post until just now. So check your feed readers or iTunes and grab it now. Or just click here to listen. Sorry you had to make it through a Monday without us.

Regular readers and listeners surely know that the Prof and I have a bit of an obsession with local transportation issues in and around Seattle. For me, it probably goes back to what the Contrarian calls the Lionel-industrial complex, a.k.a. a childhood obsession with model trains. But beyond that, one of the things that drew [...]

This week’s episode is gonna be about 24 hours late folks. We know you can hardly contain your anticipation, so thanks for your patience! In the meantime, checkout this awesome picture of George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola from 1970.

Ten years ago or so, media consolidation was predicted to be the precursor to the Fall of the Republic. Consolidation will eliminate choice, destroy local flavor in broadcasting, and generally turn our children into mindless zombies enslaved to corporations like McDonald’s and the Gap. Admitedly, I was in the camp with the naysayers. The only [...]

Hey folks, a simple bleg from the Prof and I… We’re working on getting some newer, better advertising for the podcast, in an effort to make some dough and try to grow this thing we’ve got going. So, if you enjoy the show (or even if you hate it), take a minute and fill out [...]

In a development that is sure to make Tom Tancredo stew and bitch and moan and twitch, for the first time ever a Spanish-language outlet is the top rated radio station in the Denver area: For the first time in Denver radio history, a Spanish-language station has finished atop the Arbitron ratings. The fall 2006 [...]

Error with Episode 275. Stupid internets. Anyway, it should be re-posted now. (Thanks to reader HH for the tip)

I just upgraded my laptop to a MacBook, and thus, the global headquarters of Bruno and the Prof has received a giant infrastructure upgrade. In the process of downloading all the new drivers, I came across this questionnaire on the site: The first and fourth questions sound particularly intriguing. The idea of collaborating online with [...]