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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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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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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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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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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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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The nation’s two satellite radio providers want to merge and the National Association of Broadcasters aren’t happy about it. The NAB is trying obfuscate technical details about the merger, but also filing FOIA requests that may bear some fruit for those of us watching from the sidelines. DIYmedia.net’s John Anderson joins to talk about what all this might mean for the average radio listener.
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The nation’s two satellite radio providers want to merge and the National Association of Broadcasters aren’t happy about it. The NAB is trying obfuscate technical details about the merger, but also filing FOIA requests that may bear some fruit for those of us watching from the sidelines. DIYmedia.net’s John Anderson joins to talk about what all this might mean for the average radio listener.
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September 23, 2007 11:01 am | 
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