The guest for this edition is John Anderson, producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes and the mind behind DIYmedia.net. We do our annual year in review of what’s happening in the world of media policy, the FCC and unlicensed radio. Amongst the topics we discussed are the FCC’s inaction with regard to a request made by ham radio operators to review Florida’s anti-pirate radio law and the Republican vacancies at the FCC.
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I couldn’t fit all of my interview with DJ Her and DJ Him into the Nov. 25, 2005 edition of the radioshow. So here is the rest of the interview, where we talk more in depth about the making of their documentary film, Pirate Radio USA.
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An unlicensed community radio station has been serving the devastated Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans since just a few days after hurricane Katrina. The station has been providing much needed information to residents who stayed or are returning to an area that still has few services. Recently, the FCC visited the station, causing volunteers to shut it down.
In this interview Free Radio Santa Cruz’s V-Man talks to one of the volunteer who sheds light on the real situation in New Orleans.
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I really enjoyed talking with Ken Freeman, station manager of the great freeform community station WFMU. Our conversation lasted more than a half hour, but there’s only time for half of it during the show. So I decided to make the other half available for download/podcat.
This part of the conversation is a bit more radio geeky. We talk about how WFMU is programmed, and Ken’s philosophy on shifting the schedule around, and asking programmers to take sabbaticals every so often to freshen things up. As a former chair of the WEFT Programming Committee (and college station program director), I’m always interested in hearing how station handle the fact that every station needs some shaking up and innovation every so often.
It’s about 14 minutes.
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On Oct. 31 the FCC approved the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. Some of the issues that cropped up with these mergers are also on the table for a massive rewrite of telecommunications law with the upcoming Telecommunications Act of 2006. Marc Cooper of the Consumers Federation tells us more about what we can expect, and what we should look out for.
We’ll also hear an encore of an interview with Aaron Glantz, an independent, unembedded reporter who filed reports for Pacifica radio from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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On Oct. 31 the FCC approved the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. Some of the issues that cropped up with these mergers are also on the table for a massive rewrite of telecommunications law with the upcoming Telecommunications Act of 2006. Marc Cooper of the Consumers Federation tells us more about what we can expect, and what we should look out for.
We’ll also hear an encore of an interview with Aaron Glantz, an independent, unembedded reporter who filed reports for Pacifica radio from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Don Schellhardt is one member of a coalition that has proposed to the FCC that it create a low-power AM radio service. The Commission has decided to open up public comments on the idea, and Don tells us more on what low-power AM radio might sound like.
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The Consumers Union has put together the website HearUsNow.org to help consumers get educated about the issues affecting their communications environment, and then get active in making positive change. Morgan Jindrich is the director of this effort, and she tells us more about CU’s efforts to improve policy and its current campaign to get the FCC to hold ten public hearings on media ownership before it rewrites the rules again.
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The Consumers Union has put together the website HearUsNow.org to help consumers get educated about the issues affecting their communications environment, and then get active in making positive change. Morgan Jindrich is the director of this effort, and she tells us more about CU’s efforts to improve policy and its current campaign to get the FCC to hold ten public hearings on media ownership before it rewrites the rules again.
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Victor Pickard is our guest to talk about how media and telecommunications legislation gets hashed out in Washington, and how the lobbyists are completely embedded inside the halls and offices of Congress. This past summer Victor worked as a telecommunications policy fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson. He is is a doctoral student in the Institute of Communications Research at the U of I, and a policy fellow for the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research.
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December 11, 2005 5:40 pm | 
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