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mediageek 12-31-04: 2004 Year in Review with John Anderson

John Anderson joins us for our 3rd annual year-end wrap-up. John is the producer of Media Minutes, a weekly five-minute media news program from the media reform organization Free Press, and the webmaster behind DIYmedia.net.

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Entry at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mg123104

What’s Going on in the World of Radio; Interview with John Anderson of DIYmedia.net

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net pays us another visit to discuss what’s going on in the world of licensed and unlicensed radio, including international WIPO treaties on copyright, currently active micropower broadcasters, and FCC enforcement.

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Entry at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mg061104

mediageek 10-7-05 podcast:The Decline of Commercial Broadcast Journalism and the Rise of PR

John Anderson and Laura Miller join Paul in the studio to talk about the state of journalism in the electronic media. Prior to becoming producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes, John worked in commercial radio news — his last job was morning anchor for the Wisconsin Radio Network. John talks about how he watched radio news get defunded and shrunk under the pressure of consolidation. Laura is the editor of investigative journal PR Watch, published by the Center for Media and Democracy. She talks about how the decline of electronic journalism provided an opportunity for corporations to pass off their own propaganda as news.

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mediageek 9-9-05 podcast: Microradio in Times of Crisis

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes joins Paul to discuss Houston authorities silencing an legal low-power FM station intended to broadcast information to hurricane Katrina evacuees housed in the Astrodome. John also catches us up with what’s going on with unlicensed micropower stations.

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mediageek 7-8-05 download: What’s up in the Micropower Radio Scene

On this week’s program John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins us to catch up with what’s going on with unlicensed micropower radio. Paul talks to a former micropower broadcaster from South Florida who fills us in on the active unlicensed radio scene there, where recently two broadcasters were arrested under Florida’s new state law that criminalizes pirate radio.

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mediageek 7-8-05 podcast: What’s up in the Micropower Radio Scene

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mediageek 4-08-05 download: Robert McChesney Discusses Media Reform and Independent Media

Media scholar and activist Robert McChesney joins Drew in the studio, along with our friend John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes. They discuss the state of the media reform movement, the upcoming National Conference for Media Reform, and McChesney’s two most recent books.

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mediageek 4-08-05 podcast: Robert McChesney Discusses Media Reform and Independent Media

Media scholar and activist Robert McChesney joins Drew in the studio, along with our friend John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes. They discuss the state of the media reform movement, the upcoming National Conference for Media Reform, and McChesney’s two most recent books.

mediageek 3-4-05 download: Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net is our guest again to discuss recent findings that Christian broadcasters associated with the Calvary Chapel church have obtained hundreds of low-power FM translator station licenses and are selling them off for tens of thousands of dollars.

On the program, I neglected to mention that its the phenomenally thorough research of REC Networks that tipped John and I to what they call the “translator invasion.” I apologize for the oversight.

You can find background on this story at the following DIYmedia and mediageek posts:

Faster download mirror at: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/3921.php

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mediageek 2-18-05 podcast: LPFM and LPAM, with or without the Law

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes joins Drew in the studio to discuss revamped LPFM bills aimed at restoring all originally intended frequencies for non-profit use. They also talk about new antenna and transmitter technology for part 15 (or not) LPAM broadcasting.

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