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Month: September 2003

  • Oh That Wacky McCain, Watch Him In Action

    Industry journal TV Week reports that Sen. John McCain, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee which oversees the FCC, has put a “hold” on the Senate’s approporiations bill that denies funding to the FCC for raising the national TV ownership cap from 35% to 45%. He says the FCC is his department, dammit, and so…

  • FCC Searching for RFB

    Today someone at the FCC hit this here mediageek site as a result of doing a Google search for Radio Free Brattleboro. I don’t know if this information is useful, at least it’s momentarily interesting.

  • Local Newspaper Shows Utter Ignorance and Shallow Reporting on Media Ownership Rules and Effects

    Our local daily student newspaper, the Daily Illini, ran an utterly bland, shallow and barely informed article attempting to assess what affect the FCC’s new ownership rules might have on our local media scene. The title is: “Media ownership in C-U not likely to chance with FCC rules.” And, if the article actually had any…

  • Another Kind of Low-Power Station Hogging Radio Spectrum

    As I covered in the news headlines for Friday’s radioshow, the industry journal Radio World is paying some attention to the mountain of 13,000 applications made for FM translator stations during a short application window. Translator stations are low-power FM stations that can only retransmit the signal of a full-power station — they are forbidden…

  • radio show posted in record time

    Yesterday’s mediageek radio show is already posted for listening on-line. The feature was an interview with Chicago zinester Brent Ritzel, of Zine Guide fame, along with the usual media headline news. mp3 (download; 16kbps 3 MB) broadcast quality mp3 (64kbps 13 MB) Ogg Vorbis (52 kbps 10 MB – broadcast quality) about ogg vorbis

  • Prometheus Interview

    It’s worth mentioning that there’s a really good interview with Pete TriDish from the Prometheus Radio Project over at Columbia Journalism Review on-line. Although, as he mentions in the interview, Pete caught a lot of crap from the pirate radio community for working on licensed low-power FM, the work he’s done is amazing, and I…

  • John at DIYmedia.net notes that the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia decided on Monday that it would retain jurisdiction over the Prometheus/Media Access Project suit against the FCC’s media rules loosening. As John observes, this is important because the DC Circuit Court is the one that usually hears challenges to FCC regulation, and…

  • Senate Votes To Block FCC’s Loosened Media Rules

    This morning the Senate finally voted 55 to 40 in favor of a resolution of disapproval on the FCC’s June 2 loosening of media ownership rules. If passed by the House and signed by the president, the resolution negates the new rules. This vote doesn’t quite represent the 2/3 majority support needed if Bush decides…

  • Big Radio Show Update

    It looks like the mediageek server’s Internet problems are resolved, at least for the moment, so I was able to upload the last three weeks of the radio show last night. Here they are: Aug. 29: John Anderson of DIYmedia.net co-hosts live in the studio, he discusses recent FCC activity with unlicensed broadcasters Free Radio…

  • Site Problems

    Yes, I know that the mediageek site has been up and down for the last few weeks — mostly down for the last few days. This is the result of problems with routing equipment and with SBC (the world’s worst telecomm) where the server is. We’ve been promised things will be fixed this weekend, but…