mediageek 25 June 2009: FCC Chair Finally Confirmed

On the day that Michael Jackson died the other big news is that the Senate finally confirmed our new FCC Chair, Julius Genachowski. Also, we talk about how the debate over the Performance Rights Act is heating up.

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mediageek 18 June 2009 part 2: Jerry Del Colliano on Radio’s Future

On part two of the June 18 program Inside Music Media’s Jerry Del Colliano talks more about the importance of localism in radio and how Steve Jobs and Apple created the future of music media that commercial radio completely lost. I also read some listener comments on the future of radio.

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mediageek 18 June 2009: Inside the Consolidation and Decline of Commercial Radio

Jerry Del Colliano is veteran radio industry insider who watched as the industry consolidated at a rapid rate following the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He foresaw how that consolidation would jeopardize the business of radio built on local service and innovative programming, commenting in the industry newsletter Inside Radio. After leaving the industry to teach at the University of Southern California Jerry is back, publishing the blog Inside Media Media, where he covers the future of audio media. On this edition of the radioshow Jerry talks about the decline of commercial radio and how the industry lost an entire generation of new listeners.

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mediageek 11 June 2009: Radios Populares Bringing Community Radio to Latin American

Radios Populares is a Chicago-based group that works in solidarity with communities and grassroots organizations in Latin America to help them build community radio stations. Two volunteers with the group, Allan Gomez and Lisa Matuska, join to talk about their work.

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mediageek 21 May 2009 part 2: More with Daniel Gilfillan Discussing Radio

This is part two of my interview with Daniel Gilfillan, author of Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio. We bring our discussion of German radio innovators into the late 20th century with the emergence of pirate and commercial radio in Germany. We also discuss contemporary radio and its future in the internet age.

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mediageek 4 June 2009 part 2: More with Alec Foege

This is more of my conversation with Alec Foege, discussing Clear Channel Communications and the decline of commercial radio. In this portion we discuss Clear Channel’s political leanings, Rush Limbaugh and the potential for a revival of commercial radio.

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mediageek radioshow 4 June 2009: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio

This week’s guest is Alec Foege, author of the book Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio. We talk about how a small, regional radio broadcast company from San Antonio turned into the largest radio broadcaster in the country, along with becoming the poster child for the destruction of commercial radio.

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On This Week’s Show: Clear Channel and the Decline of Commercial Radio

I’m excited to have as this week’s guest Alec Foege author of the book Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Decline of Commercial Radio, now out in paperback. We’ll talk about how a little regional Texas broadcast company grew into the nation’s biggest radio owner, changing the fundamentals of the radio business in the process.

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mediageek 28 May 2009: Public Relations and the Crisis in Journalism

Public relations tactics have been used by major corporate polluters to “greenwash” their image and by the Pentagon to sell war policies to the American public. With the crisis in journalism will paid pundits and messages replace true reported stories? Diane Farsetta, senior researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy, joins to discuss this topic.

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mediageek 21 May 2009: German Experimental Radio

Early German radio enthusiasts, scholars and producers sought to make that medium something more than a means for broadcasting light entertainment and, eventually, propaganda. In his book Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio, Daniel Gilfillan makes crucial connections between these early experiments and our contemporary multimedia world where we still stand in that disputed territory between producer and receiver. Gilfillan is associate professor of German Studies in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.

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