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Month: March 2005

  • Mediageek Radioshow Headlines for 3-4-05

    These are the news headlines as read on the March 4, 2005 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Sen. Ted Stevens, Broadcasters Want Indecency Enforced for Cable & Satellite; Illinois Anti-Muni Wireless Bill Dead for Now; Sinclair Asks Supremes to Review Ownership Reg. Click MORE to read ’em.

  • Friday’s Radioshow On-line: Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations

    My pal John Anderson was our guest on the show this past Friday again, since he’s been doing a lot of the digging into Calvary Chapel, Edgewater Broadcasting, their various associates/aliases and the exchange of FM translator station licenses. The program is now posted for download, streaming and podcasting. On the program, I neglected to…

  • Fort Lauderdale’s Calvary Chapel’s Plan to Coat Florida

    As John mentioned on today’s mediageek, here’s a link to a map of the Calvary Chapel of Ft. Lauderdale’s coverage map for their 100,000 watt blowtorch station and its translator repeaters.

  • Calvary Chapel / CSN Squeezing Out Boston College Stations

    The Boston Phoenix reports on CSN’s plan to erect a 20,000 watt completely unmanned satellite-driven station on the fringes of several college station’s signal: If the syndicate is allowed to transmit its satellite feed, 20,000 watts strong, from a tower in Plymouth, it could muddle the signal of many lower-power stations — including Boston CollegeÂ’s…

  • Illinois’ Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill Killed For Now

    Mitchell Szczepanczyk at Chicago IMC reports that the sponsor of an anti-municipal broadband bill in the Illinois legislature failed to enter it, likely due to lots of negative attention. However, the war is not over yet: Nevertheless, [there are] fears that the bill could still be in play in a “poison pill” maneuver, which would…

  • Minidisc News: Sony Adds Native MP3 and Photo Capabilities to Hi-MD

    Looks like Sony’s trying to keep it’s loyal minidisc users from jumping over to iPod land. Yesterday Sony announced some new MD units, including the Hi-MD Photo, which seems pretty much like the MD equivalent of the iPod Photo, except that it includes a 1.3 megapixel camera. However, I think 1.3 MP is pretty meager…

  • Calvary Chapel: The Decentralized Christian Clear Channel

    John does some more digging into the various Calvary Chapels that are putting together what look like turn-key radio networks, partially built from translators purchased from Edgewater/Radio Assist Ministry: Unlike the Calvary Chapels of Twin Falls and Costa Mesa, which had to grow their networks over time by applying for more and more FM stations…

  • Media News Headlines from the 2-18-05 Edition of the Radioshow

    A week and a half old, but still quite relevant, these are the news headlines as read on the Feb. 18 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Indy Kills the Community Network Eating Snake; Anti-Community Network Bill Introduced in Illinois; Sinclair Striking Distro Deal with Comcast. Click MORE to read ’em.