Month: April 2004
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Interview with a Sit-In participant
Mediageek radioshow producer Drew Tarico posted a short audio interview with Antar Jackson, who is participating in a sit-in at the University of Illinois administration building in protest of the University’s racist mascot, “Chief” Illiniwek.
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University of Illinois Sit-In Blog
The Unversity of Illinois has a very unfortunate and racist mascot known as “Chief” Illiniwek. There’s been a strong movement for the last ten years to convince the U to rid itself of this tarnishing mockery of Native Americans. Today a group of students and supporters staged a sit-in of the administration building, which apparently…
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What About Used? A Thought on Music Sales
The fact that recorded music sales are down for the 4th year running is all over the news again, along with the music industry’s accusation that it’s primarily due to downloading mp3s. My own recorded music consumption goes up and down, but I’d say that for the last 5 years or so it’s been mostly…
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Review of Champaign-Urbana & Central Illinois Media Ownership On-Line Now
On the last two Fridays, the mediageek radio show has featured a critical examination of media ownership in Champaign-Urbana and Central Illinois. These two programs are now archived for listening on-line: Part 1, from April 2, features a review of radio and newspaper ownership, including a closer look at the Illini Media Company, the student-run…
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Urbana Zine Reading, Chicago Self-Publishing Fest
The tireless Brent Ritzl of Zine Guide fame and the Chicago Self-Publishers Event Council will be heading down to help host another ‘zine reading at the Urbana-Champaign IMC, 218 W. Main St., Urbana, on Saturday, April 17 at 6:30 PM. I think this will be the fourth reading at the IMC that Chicago SPEC has…
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Champaign-Urbana Alt. Weekly to close — Are these papers sustainable?
I got word tonight that one of our local alternative weeklies, the (poorly named) Paper, will be closing in two weeks. The Paper is sort of the heir of a previous alternative weekly that started like as The Optimist in 1995 and was killed off by radio giant Saga Communications, which owned it for the…
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FCC Sees the Light on Calvary Chapel Apps for LPFM
The Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, Idaho is the single largest abuser of FM translator stations, also known as repeaters. They’re low-power FM stations, typically around 10 watts, that are licensed only to rebroadcast the signal of full-power station. With commercial stations, translators have to be within a certain distance of the full-power station. But…
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House Rep Fires Another Shot for Media Ownership Reform
Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York introduced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal the FCC’s rewrite of media ownership rules. The bill would also eliminate the Congressional requirement that the FCC hold a biannual review of media ownership rules, which triggered the FCC’s rewrite last year. According to radioandrecords.com, Hinchey’s bill also, “aims to…
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On Friday’s Mediageek Radioshow: Media Ownership in Champaign-Urbana
When you live in a smaller media market like Champaign-Urbana, IL there doesn’t tend to be much press coverage on media ownership. We’ve only got one daily newspaper that doesn’t have radio or TV column, and is itself the owner of two local radio stations. Even the university students’ independent newspaper itself owns a radio…