mediageek radioshow

The mediageek’s new podcast project

admin — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:11:04 +0000

It’s been two years since I ended production of the mediageek radioshow. In that interim I shifted most of my blogging activity to Radio Survivor, where we cover many of the issues the radioshow tackled, but more consistently, due to having three regular contributors.

Aside from occasional fill-in shifts on WNUR-FM I have not produced any audio content. That dry spell ended this past May when my new podcast debuted, Jenny and Paul Sell Out. It’s produced roughly bi-weekly along with my co-host Jenny Benevento.

Unlike the mediageek radioshow, this program was conceived as a podcast from the very start, rather than being a broadcast radio program also distributed as a podcast. It’s also not about media policy, instead focusing on culture and the questions facing those of us trying to forge a life and career in the online world. If you enjoyed some of the lighter moments of mediageek, or when we discussed art and culture, then you may enjoy Jenny and Paul Sell Out.

To my friends and listeners in broadcast: please note that we have not tailored the program to broadcast, which means the length is variable and we use some indecent or so-called NSFW words that are inappropriate for US stations outside of safe harbor. I happen to think our discussions are all pretty PG-13, or “light R,” and certainly nothing shocking to anyone who watches cable TV.

If you miss mediageek I hope that you’ll check out Jenny and Paul Sell Out.

mediageek 2009-12-31: The Final Mediageek Radioshow

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:08:28 +0000

We finish the year and the decade with the very last edition of mediageek. John Anderson of DIYmedia.net, the most frequent guest on the program, joins Paul in the studio for the send-off. There are a lot of thanks, some consideration the growth of the media democracy movement and John makes Paul reflect on the short history of the radio program.

This 30 minute syndicated version of the program is edited down from the live version which ran well over an hour on New Year’s Eve. The full (mostly) unedited version of the program will be posted next week.

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mediageek 24 December 2009: The Penultimate Mediageek

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:37:35 +0000

On this penultimate edition of mediageek I take a look back at two segments exploring unlicensed radio. First, we revisit some audio from the Radio Access Democracy conference in 2004, including interviews with participants of a transmitter building workshop. Then we listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey who produced the documentary Making Waves, which looks at the pirate radio scene in Tucson, AZ.

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mediageek 17 Dec 2009: The House Passes LPFM Restoration Bill

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:33:29 +0000

The big news this week is that the House finally voted on and passed the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. Now that we’re half-way to the restoration of LPFM I thought we’d take a look back at some of the pressure that caused the FCC to create LPFM in the first place. We revisit two interviews about Radio Free Brattleboro, a Vermont-based unlicensed micropower station that would–at least in spirit–be reincarnated as Brattleboro Community Radio.

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mediageek 10 December 2009: One Down, Three to Go, with the Yes Men

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:09:39 +0000

The mediageek radioshow is coming to a close with the end of 2009, so for the last four shows we’ll be listening to some of Paul’s favorite interviews from the last seven years. On today’s program we listen to two different interviews with media pranksters and identity correctors, the Yes Men. First we listen to an interview that first aired on Dec. 24, 2004, after the Yes Men impersonated Dow Chemical spokesmen to take responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, live on the BBC. Then we listen to an interview that aired May 16, 2006 after the Yes Men successfully demonstrated Halliburton’s new Survivaball that helps corporate executives survive the rising tides of climate change.

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mediageek 3 December 2009: Indymedia Turns 10

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:00:12 +0000

This week we discuss the ten-year anniversary of Indymedia and the “Battle in Seattle.” Also, an important announcement about the radioshow.

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mediageek 19 November 2009: The Value of College Radio

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:15 +0000

This week is an encore of the July 16, 2009 edition:

Jennifer Waits is a college radio enthusiast. From getting her start at Haverford College’s carrier-current WHRC to DJing at Foothill College’s KFJC Waits has worked at a variety of stations, always propelled by her love of independent music and media. She blogs about her passion at Spinning Indie where she posts reports from her tours of stations around the country, along with news of relevance to college radio. She joins the program this week to talk about the important place college radio has in our media environment.

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mediageek 12 November 2009: Knight Commission Studies Info Needs of Communities

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:19:46 +0000

At a time when media and information technology continues to become more pervasive, it stands to question whether all this tech actually gives us access to the information we need to live our lives better as individuals and citizens. The Knight Commission was formed to investigate the information needs of communities in a democracy and recently released a report that assesses the types of information needed and makes recommendations for meeting those needs. Already the report has garnered attention from both government agencies like the FCC, industry and citizens groups. Charlie Firestone, Aspen Institute Executive Director of the Communications and Society Program and Knight Commission Project, joins to tell us more about the Knight Commission and its findings.

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mediageek 5 November 2009: Possible Interference Boost for HD Radio & SF’s Pirate Cat Leaves the Air

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:13:54 +0000

John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins us this week to review recent news in digital and pirate radio. First he tells us about a proposed power boost for HD Radio that would increase interference on the FM dial. Then we discuss the recent voluntary shutdown of San Francisco’s Pirate Cat radio in response to an FCC threat.

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mediageek 29 October 2009: FCC Revisits Network Neutrality

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:01:05 +0000

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss the proposed rules and their possible impact.

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