mediageek 12-22-06: Year-End Wrap-Up

John Anderson joins me once again for our annual year-end wrap-up. This time we discuss the year in radio, including the failure of digital “HD” radio to take off, despite the availability of new receivers.

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mediageek 12-15-06: The Future of Music

Media consolidation, especially in radio, has brought tremendous change to the music business — mostly negative. Now independent musicans are working together to shape the future of our media landscape. Jenny Toomey is the executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, and she tells us more about how radio has changed and how they would like to see it improved.

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mediageek 11-17-06: Telecom Under a Dem Congress

Paul takes a look at the prospects for telecommunications legislation and regulation under a Democratic congress. He also considers the rise of so-called “user created” video on YouTube and Google Video, and what that means for independent media makers.

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mediageek 11-10-06: Update from Oaxaca

The Oaxaca state government has stepped up its offensive agains the popular movement APPO there, now aided by the Mexican federal government. Police have targeted Radio Universidad, the last remaining radio voice of the APPO, along with people involved in the movement. Nancy Davies and George Salzman, two Americans living in Oaxaca, provide us another important update about what’s really happening there, and what’s not being reported in the US mainstream media.

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mediageek 11-3-06: The Continuing Story of WEFT

On this edition we listen to part 2 of my interview with WEFT founding member, Bill Thomas.

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mediageek 10-27-06: One History of Community Radio

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of mediageek home station WEFT, my guest for this program is Bill Thomas, one of the founding members of WEFT, and someone who was at the center of the burgeoning community radio movement in the 1970s. We also listen to the results of the Benton foundation and Social-Science Research Council’s research reports on the effects of consolidated media ownership.

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mediageek 10-6-06: Shortwave Radio in the Internet Age

My guest for this program is Dan Roberts, producer of the weekly Shortwave Report radio program for the last 9 years. We discuss why shortwave radio is still important even while we have thousands of stations available to us over the internet.

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mediageek 9-29-06: The importance of community radio and the challenges it faces

On this edition we listen to some audio from the keynote address at the Northwest Community Radio Conference, held on Sept. 15 – 17. Karen Toering from Reclaim the Media dicusses why community radio is still vitally important, and Lupito Florez from KYRS, Spokane WA talks about threats to that low-power community radio station.

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mediageek 9-22-06: The Negative Effects of Media Consolidation on Women and Minorities

The media watchdog group Free Press just released a research report detailing the rapidly declining rate of broadcast media outlet ownership amongst women and minorities. On this edition we listen to excerpts from a national press briefing featuring the study’s authors, FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, Janet Murguia from the National Council of La Raza and David Honig from the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council.

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mediageek 9-15-06: Radio and Revolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

A popular uprising is happening in that Mexican state, spurred on by a police attack on striking teachers and the diputed national election in July. Radio and television have become important tool’s for the people in their resistance to the neoliberal state and national government. I’m dedicating the entire program to an interview with Nancy Davies and George Salzman, two Americans who have been living in Oaxaca for the last seven years and witnessing the uprising first hand.

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