The FCC just completed a set of auctions for radio frequency spectrum that will soon be vacated when analog TV goes dark in 2009. Spectrum is the valuable real estate for wireless communications, so the outcome of this auction will have significant long-lasting implications for the future of the internet, broadband and our ability to communicate freely. Craig Aaron, communications director for Free Press, helps break down what happened and what it means.
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Andrew O’Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio.
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Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that aren’t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us more on this week’s show.
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At the FCC’s hearing on network neutrality on Feb. 24 Comcast admitting to hiring people off the street to be place holders for its employees in the face of limiting seating. Problem was, those mythical employees never showed up and helped Comcast pack the room instead. This week guest John Anderson returns to talk about the latest in Comcast’s dirty tricks to stack the deck against internet freedom.
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At the FCC’s hearing on network neutrality on Feb. 24 Comcast admitting to hiring people off the street to be place holders for its employees in the face of limiting seating. Problem was, those mythical employees never showed up and helped Comcast pack the room instead. This week guest John Anderson returns to talk about the latest in Comcast’s dirty tricks to stack the deck against internet freedom.
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It’s pledge drive time at home station WEFT, which means guest John Anderson and I go a little more freeform than usual, assisted by WEFT station manager Mick Woolf. We spare you the hard-sell pledge pitches, and do get to discuss the Justice Dept’s push to get the Supreme Court to rule on indecency and why it’s so important to understand spectrum when looking at broadcast policy.
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It’s pledge drive time at home station WEFT, which means guest John Anderson and I go a little more freeform than usual, assisted by WEFT station manager Mick Woolf. We spare you the hard-sell pledge pitches, and do get to discuss the Justice Dept’s push to get the Supreme Court to rule on indecency and why it’s so important to understand spectrum when looking at broadcast policy.
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This past week was declared Open Internet Week by a coalition of citizens, public interest groups, tech companies, academics and activists, highlighted by the introduction of the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008†(HR 5353). On this edition of the program we hear excerpts from two nationwide press conference calls outlining why and how Network Neutrality will be pushed to the top of the regulatory and legislative agenda this year. We also hear BitTorrent’s Eric Klinker explain how the technology the company is developing to better manage the traffic created by its commercial applications will also be extended to its open source protocol.
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DIYmedia‘s John Anderson joins again to discuss his further investigation into the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal for the FCC to allow AM stations to have low-power translators on the FM dial. His conculsion: it’s not about radio at all. You’ll have to listen to learn more.
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DIYmedia‘s John Anderson joins again to discuss his further investigation into the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal for the FCC to allow AM stations to have low-power translators on the FM dial. His conculsion: it’s not about radio at all. You’ll have to listen to learn more.
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March 30, 2008 9:23 pm | 
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