On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering a four-day workshop on building and operating unlicensed low-power FM transmitters. The camps will be going on tour this Spring to Madison, WI, and several other locations in the US and Latin America. Dunifer also tells us about FRB's recent foray into unlicensed TV broadcasting.
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On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering a four-day workshop on building and operating unlicensed low-power FM transmitters. The camps will be going on tour this Spring to Madison, WI, and several other locations in the US and Latin America. Dunifer also tells us about FRB's recent foray into unlicensed TV broadcasting.
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Harold Feld of the Media Access Project gives us the skinny on a petition by Prometheus and other media reform groups to the FCC demanding a freeze on noncommercial FM translator stations applications in order to halt what they see as a trafficking scam. And, coincidentally, the FCC does it, but as part of a LPFM strengthening effort.
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Harold Feld of the Media Access Project gives us the skinny on a petition by Prometheus and other media reform groups to the FCC demanding a freeze on noncommercial FM translator stations applications in order to halt what they see as a trafficking scam. And, coincidentally, the FCC does it, but as part of a LPFM strengthening effort.
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Paul interviews Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales about that foundation's newest project, Wikinews. We also have an update on the Edgewater/Radio Assist Ministries translator scandal.
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Paul interviews Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales about that foundation's newest project, Wikinews. We also have an update on the Edgewater/Radio Assist Ministries translator scandal.
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John Anderson of DIYmedia.net is our guest again to discuss recent findings that Christian broadcasters associated with the Calvary Chapel church have obtained hundreds of low-power FM translator station licenses and are selling them off for tens of thousands of dollars.
On the program, I neglected to mention that its the phenomenally thorough research of REC Networks that tipped John and I to what they call the "translator invasion." I apologize for the oversight.
You can find background on this story at the following DIYmedia and mediageek posts:
- Moneychangers In the Temple
- God Squads Fall From Grace
- Religious Broadcasting As Franchise Operation
- Something Fishy in Right-Wing-Christian-Translator-land, Grabbing Spectrum away from LPFM, Maybe Profiting from the Venture?
- Calvary Chapel, LPFM and Plausible Deniability
- Calvary Chapel: The Decentralized Christian Clear Channel
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