Tim Hwang is a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and he recently co-authored a short research report examining the new FCC commissioners for the Pelican Group. In the report, titled “Uncertain Futures,” Hwang and co-author Erikk Hokenson look focus particularly on the two new commissioners, Republican Meredith Atwell Baker and Democrat Mingon Clyburn, primarily because they were relatively unknown prior to their nominations to the FCC. Tim is our guest on this edition of mediageek to discuss his findings.
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Tags: commissioners, fcc, internet, Meredith Atwell Baker, Mingon Clyburn, net neutrality, telecommunications, Tim Hwang
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The Illinois Citizens Utility Board looks out for consumers’ rights when dealing with utility companies, including both telephone and cell phone companies. CUB’s communications director, Jim Chilsen, joins to explain more about how everyone can save money on land-line and cell phone bills by looking out for unnecessary charges and services.
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The Illinois Citizens Utility Board looks out for consumers’ rights when dealing with utility companies, including both telephone and cell phone companies. CUB’s communications director, Jim Chilsen, joins to explain more about how everyone can save money on land-line and cell phone bills by looking out for unnecessary charges and services.
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Recently Apple’s iPhone app store came under scrutiny again when news surfaced that the new Google Voice application had been blocked. Though no reason has been specified by Apple, there are strong suspicions that the company is attempting to prevent competition from AT&T’s voice service and other businesses that Google Voice might pose a challenge to. Now the FCC has stepped in with letters of inquiry to Apple, AT&T and Google. Free Press’ Tim Karr has been covering the issue of mobile device freedom and fills us in on the details and implications of this situation.
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Tags: app store, Apple, at&t, cellular, Free Press, google, Google Voice, iPhone, mobile, phone, Tim Karr
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This week it’s a big news update as we cover the Senate confirmation of the last two new FCC commissioners, the progress of the Performance Rights Act in the Senate and take a look at NPR’s new website which looks like a bid to become a new web news portal.
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Tags: fcc, Meredith Atwell Baker, Mingon Clyburn, music, musicians, News, npr, Performance Rights Act, public radio, riaa
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Matthew Lasar, media historian and writer for ArsTechnica, joins again to discuss the future of radio and the new line up of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission.
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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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Nearly four years ago the four largest commercial radio owners promised to play more independent music as part of a consent degree arising from the payola scandal. But still, not much has changed. The Future of Music Coalition has been tracking radio playlists to see if commercial stations have been keeping their promises. FMC’s Kristin Thomson joins to discuss the situation.
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Tags: cbs, clear channel, commercial radio, consent decree, Cumulus, fcc, FMC, Future of Music Coalition, independent music, music, payola
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This week is an encore presentation of this program from January 22:
RetroThing.com is a website and blog dedicated to interesting and fun retro and vintage gadgets, electronics, toys and technology that might have been forgotten, but still have their uses. Co-editor of the site, Bohus Blahut, joins us to talk about the appeal of vintage tech, and how useful and fun stuff may be waiting for you in the back of your closet.
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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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