Month: February 2005
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Linking Up the Nets
Apropos last Friday’s radioshow with guest Jason Scott of Textfiles.com, Cory at boingboing posts about a web BBS to FidoNet BBS interface that’s been built. FidoNET was popular in the pre-Internet days as a way for individual electronic bulletin boards to hook up and exchange messages. If I remember correctly, it works by having computers…
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Happy 5th Birthday LPFM — Tomorrow Is LPFM Day
Tomorrow is Low-Power FM Radio Day at the FCC. The Commission plans to have two forums discussing how LPFM stations can meet local needs, and some of the issues facing LPFM stations, with representatives from various LPFM stations speaking. The FCC will webcast the proceedings at its Audio/Video Events page. The Prometheus Radio project has…
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Sinclair Smackdown
According to Broadcasting and Cable, the FCC is expected to reject a request by Sinclair Broadcast Group — the Clear Channel of TV — to purchase five stations in markets where the company already operates a TV station. Sinclair is seeking an exception to the duopoly rule that disallows owning more than one TV station…
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Repeat After Me: “Podcasting is NOT Pirate Radio”
I realize that mainstream commercial broadcast radio is so horrifically homogenized, payola-ridden and unlistenable that any alternative seems underground by comparison. But, please, can we stop comparing ‘net based audio to pirate radio? An article on podcasting from the Mercury News is being syndicated all over the place, and like so much other press covering…