In the best blogger style, I’m remembering to post this only hours in advance…
Beginning tonight at 9 PM CDT the mediageek radioshow begins a new chapter with a new station. Tonight is the debut of the mediageek radioshow on WNUR 89.3 FM, the radio station of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, serving the north side of Chicago and the North Shore suburbs. As I’ve mentioned on the blog and radioshow, I moved to Chicago back in April, saying a teary goodbye to the studios of community radio WEFT in Champaign, IL where the show got its start. Since then I’ve been producing the show at home, while it continues to air on WEFT and a dozen other stations.
Besides the change to a new station and city the show now moves to an hour-long format. Because the current mediageek affiliates only have a half-hour set aside for the program I’ll be doing the show in two segments. The first half-hour will be much like the current show, with news headlines and feature interviews.
With the second half-hour I’m planning to take a looser approach. When there are live guests who are willing to stick around the full hour I’d like to take live listener phone calls. WNUR has a live web stream, so this opportunity will be available not just to folks listening in the Chicago area. I’d also like to spice things up by featuring more audio collage, sonic art and broadcast things that have less to do with policy and regulation. I’ll post the second half-hour for podcast and online listening, too.
So, tonight’s the first trial balloon in the new approach. I’m glad that my pal and frequent guest John Anderson will be along for the ride via phone from Champaign.
Tune in tonight, Sept. 25, from 9 – 10 PM to WNUR 89.3 FM, Evanston, IL, and online at WNUR.org.
Our man keeping tabs on the FCC Matthew Lasar is here again to talk about the FCC’s plan for a cost-free and porn-free wireless internet service, and other important stuff that files under the mainstream radar.
Podcast/Download:
mediageek 12 September 2008 broadcast quality mp3
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080912.mp3[/mp3]
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On the first of August the FCC ordered Comcast to ends its discriminatory network practices, wherein the Commission found that the nation’s largest cable modem provider had been improperly blocking the internet traffic of its subscribers who were using the BitTorrent file sharing system. Public Knowledge is one of the groups that petitioned the FCC to take action against Comcast. In a recent post to that group’s policy blog, Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi Sohn provided some historical perspective to explain why the FCC’s sanctioning of Comcast should be looked at as victory. I recently spoke to Gigi and I asked her to explain this perspective and to analyze what the Comcast action means for network neutrality.
Podcast/Download:
mediageek 29 August 2008 broadcast quality mp3
Listen Now:
[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080829.mp3[/mp3]
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On the first of August the FCC ordered Comcast to ends its discriminatory network practices, wherein the Commission found that the nation’s largest cable modem provider had been improperly blocking the internet traffic of its subscribers who were using the BitTorrent file sharing system. Public Knowledge is one of the groups that petitioned the FCC to take action against Comcast. In a recent post to that group’s policy blog, Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi Sohn provided some historical perspective to explain why the FCC’s sanctioning of Comcast should be looked at as victory. I recently spoke to Gigi and I asked her to explain this perspective and to analyze what the Comcast action means for network neutrality.
Podcast/Download:
mediageek 29 August 2008 broadcast quality mp3
Listen Now:
[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080829.mp3[/mp3]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
A movement of independent minded crafters has been rising up across the nation, taking a new spin on the crafts that your grandmother might have made. Faythe Levine is one of them, and she’s taken up a camera to document them in book and film form, both titled Handmade Nation. On this edition of the program Faythe tells us more about the new indie crafters and how she’s documenting their work.
Podcast/Download:
mediageek 22 August 2008 broadcast quality mp3
Listen Now:
[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080822.mp3[/mp3]
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Really bad luck this week, totally lost the audio for the March 7 show. My apologies to everyone. Standing in is a repeat of the Jan. 11 program:
Wally Bowen is the Executive Director of the Mountain Area Information Network, a non-profit which has provided internet and information services to Western North Carolina for more than a decade. He believes that a non-commerical alternative to the enormous commercial DSL and cable modem duopolies in most communities is absolutely essential for guaranteeing the future freedom of the internet. In this week’s program Wally tell us more about MAIN and why nonprofit information services are so important.
Download/Podcast:
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Paul catches up with a boatload of media news, including what’s going on at the FCC with media ownership and indecency, a look at some simmering telecomm mergers and more.
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Paul catches up with a boatload of media news, including what’s going on at the FCC with media ownership and indecency, a look at some simmering telecomm mergers and more.
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The 2-18-05 show will be posted to radio.indymedia.org first this week. It will be posted by Monday 2-21-05 at 6 PM CST.
It will be posted here shortly thereafter.
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September 25, 2008 1:06 pm | 
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