The Alabama Moderate pointed out today’s dose of Prickly City earlier today…
Definitely an interesting one, as pointed out by The Moderate himself.
What do you think?
Category Archives: Media
Travelogue: Seattle seems to like Wild Sweet Orange
Kevin Cole of 90.3 FM KEXP in Seattle do at least. The staff normally takes turns choosing the Song of the Day for the University of Washington owned station. Cole took his turn to pick our own Wild Sweet Orange in part because of their scheduled appearance on the station’s CMJ Broadcast next week from New York City. Our readers in New York need to click on that link and sign up to get in for the sessions (especially since it is free).
Click on over to their blog and listen to the mp3 for their single 10 Dead Dogs. You may also want to plan to tune your browsers over to KEXP on October 19 as they perform live. Or head on over to Timetable to watch the video of the Birmingham/Homewood-based band performing the song at a former great live performance venue.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Media, music, Travelogue
NBC 13 first local news to broadcast in HD
According to a news story/press release published on MSNBC, the Birmingham, AL NBC affiliate will be the first station in the state of Alabama to broadcast their local news coverage in high definition. The transmissions will begin on October 17 with their 10 p.m. broadcast.
All of the major stations carry their local news on their HD signals, but NBC 13 would be the first to actually take advantage of the technology. The changes will coincide with a new set designed to take advantage of the new technology.
While we’re at it we appreciate MSNBC listing us under their local blogs heading on their redesigned local page for Birmingham.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Media, technology
The Terminal’s in new edition of BBJ
Terminal publisher/editor André Natta at launch party/Happy Hour for a Cause 2 on August 29 at The Bottletree. Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
Yeah, we just found out ourselves. The piece in the Birmingham Business Journal includes photos taken from the website’s launch party and Happy Hour for a Cause event on August 29th at The Bottletree. Here’s the link to the article.
If you’re a subscriber, you’ll see a few pictures. We’re not, so we’ll just have to live with that one shot of André holding the license plate at the center of this long-term project. Or the one up above.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Business, Media, The Terminal
What can be done about the Urban Divide?
WBHM poses a version of this question to listeners this evening and hopes that many will take part in a question and answer session beginning at 6:30 p.m. Last week our local Alabama Public Radio station put together an excellent series taking a closer look at the region’s Urban Divide, just in time for consideration during our fall elections. If you have not had the opportunity to check out this series yet, take a look at the links that follow the read more link and then tune in this evening (or listen online) while a great panel sits to discuss where we are and what’s next.
Posted in Alabama, Birmingham, Citywide, Media, Regionwide
Fried Green Radio’s alive!
The folks over at the local independent internet radio station are looking for DJs. They still have some of their old personalities, but they’re looking for new voices as they begin what we’re assuming is a relaunch in the near future.
Head on over to their site, look around and get in contact with them if you’re interested. Of course you can always visit their MySpace page (or visit others using our Magic City MySpace Directory). You may want to listen to them too (just saying!).
Posted in 35213, Alabama, Birmingham, Media, music
Magic City Question: The sign’s going up today
Yes, for those of you that have noticed the big crane atop Red Mountain this morning, there is a new sign joining Vulcan and the transmission towers today. WBRC’s red neon glow will now be joined in the coming days by an NBC peacock courtesy of our local affiliate station.
They did tell us that it was going to happen sooner or later (and we mentioned it in this post). The word from the station during their midday broadcast was that it would be turned on by next week. What do you think about this change from atop the city?
Posted in 35209, Alabama, Birmingham, Magic City Question, Media
