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The Current: Live at South by Southwest

The Current: Live at South by Southwest

Mary Lucia is hosting a badge-free and surprise-filled band showcase at South by Southwest today and tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m., with live broadcasts online and on-air starting at 3 p.m. Writer Keith Harris will be updating us during the conference as well.

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Searching for truth in ads

Searching for truth in ads

Ads are meant to persuade, but do they also mislead? Midmorning's first hour guest says there's a way consumers of both political ads and product advertising can guard against being duped.

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George Stoney

George Stoney is a documentary filmmaker who helped establish public access TV in the '70s. He was also a professor at NYU until he was forced into mandatory retirement about twenty years ago at age 70. He's still out there working and learning.

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Transforming talk radio

Some talk radio outlets are trying to pick up audiences with new stations and new voices, including more women.

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A new life for radio at the end of the road

An Ely radio station, made famous by Charles Kuralt, gets a new life with the Boise Forte Band of Ojibway. The Band's purchase makes it the first Minnesota tribe with its own broadcast station.

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FCC holding hearing on media consolidation

An FCC hearing is part of a nationwide tour by the two Democrats on the commission. They were the lone dissenters on the FCC ruling last year that increased the number of media outlets that a single company could own.

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An interview with interviewer Terry Gross

Longtime interviewer Terry Gross talks about the art of radio conversation and her public radio show, Fresh Air.

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Radio Re-Volt hopes to start a revolution

Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? Play the songs you want? Say the things you want to say? Now you can, thanks to a radio revolution underway in Minneapolis. The Walker Art Center has organized a group of artists and free radio advocates to teach people how to run their own low wattage micro-radio stations. "Radio Re-Volt" is designed, in part, to widen access to the local airwaves and raise awareness of the growing media consolidation in America.

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Bob Edwards leaves NPR for satellite radio network

Veteran National Public Radio announcer Bob Edwards, pushed in March from his "Morning Edition" post, is leaving to host a new interview program on XM Satellite Radio. The new program will begin airing on Oct. 4.

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Rich history of radio

Once the common experience for Americans, radio listening has become much more fragmented. In a lively new history of radio, a communications scholar traces the changes and impact of the medium.

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