John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins me again to catch up on what the FCC has been up to this year in the world of pirate radio. Enforcement is up, but so is the number of pirates. So what’s the story? John fills us in.
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Jason Croft is an enthusiast of mid-century culture and music, bringing it to the radio and to the web for more than seven years at his website, Java’s Bachelor Pad. Now Jason is setting out to bring together this grassroots network of fellow hep cats and cool kittens in print, with Bachelor Pad magazine. He tells us more about the culture of mid-century enthusiasts and why he decided to start an independent magazine to cover it.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | September 30, 2007 11:32 am | Comments (0)
On Sept. 20 the FCC held a public hearing on media ownership at the HQ of Rainbow/Push on the South side of Chicago. This hearing focused on the sorry state of minority ownership in media, which is especially bad in Chicago, one of the nation’s largest media markets.
We listen to some testimony from that hearing and then speak with Scott Sanders, from Chicago Media Action, who attended the hearing.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | September 23, 2007 11:01 am | Comments (0)
On this edition I share some audio from a panel discussion I participated in at the Global Fusion conference, Sept. 6 – 8, sponsored by Southern Illinois University. My co-panelists were John Anderson of DIYmedia.net, Jay Needhman, Professor of Sonic Arts at SIU, and Josh Gumiela, an MFA student at SIU. In the panel we discuss the history of unlicensed radio and some of its potentials.
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Ireland, like much of Europe, has a very different radio history than the US. Non-state-run radio, whether commercial or community, is only about 20 years old. Now Ireland is about to start licensing religious radio stations, bringing its media landscape a little closer to America’s. Andrew O’Baoill talks about the differences between the US and Ireland radio landscapes and the introduction of religious radio in Ireland.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | September 3, 2007 8:05 pm | Comments (0)
This week it’s a big news update, covering: criticism over the lack of public interest considerations in the FCC’s rulemakings for the transition to digital TV; the Sept. 20 media ownership hearing in Chicago; progress in restoring LPFM; the proposal to allow AM stations to have low-power repeaters on the FM dial.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | August 19, 2007 10:15 pm | Comments (0)
August 11 was Home Movie Day, dedicated to educating people about the valuable memories and histories contained in celluloid that litters closets, basements and attics. Jimi Jones helped organized Home Movie Day in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he works for the University of Illinois Library as an archivist and media preservationist. We talk about the value of preserving our audio-visual media and how we can do it.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | August 12, 2007 8:07 pm | Comments (0)
An encore edition: My guest for this program is Larry Bloch from Brattleboro, VT Community Radio who shares the story of how that small city started with an unlicensed community station that was shut down by the FCC, and then transitioned to having a licensed low-power station.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | August 3, 2007 9:27 pm | Comments (0)
An encore edition: Victor Pickard is the guest to discuss the history of American journalism. He questions the received wisdom that the current commercial news system was inevitable, and talks about why and how we can reform journalism.
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Download, Podcast | Paul | July 27, 2007 9:25 pm | Comments (0)
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