Author: Paul
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On Today’s Radioshow: Iowans Challenging Sinclair
In a few minutes I’ll be interviewing Charlie Miller and Eileen Finnegan from Iowans for Better Local TV, in Iowa City. Their group is challenging the license of the Sinclair-owned station in their city, due to its centralizing of news content, and a very locally relevant incident: The tipping point occurred when SBG conducted on…
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News Headlines from the Sept. 23 Radioshow
These are the news headlines as read on the Sept. 23 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Community Media Activists Speak Out Against Legislation; Roundup Bringing Western LPFMs Together; CT Cops Run Racist Pirate Radio Station; CPB Says It Doesn’t Have To Be Open; Radio Station for Katrina Evacuees Shuts Down.
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See Indie Bike Videos from Portland Tuesday at noon, Boardman’s Art Theater in Champaign
My pal Shawn Granton will be in town this coming week, and he’s bringing some great videos documenting Portland, Oregon’s thriving bicycle scene. Microcosm publishing describes them thusly: “If you’ve been hearing a lot about all of the crazy bicycle stuff in Portland but didn’t really know what was going on, this is a good…
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Hey, where’d everybody go?
It’s obligatory for a blogger to occasionally have to apologize for a somewhat unscheduled absence. Here’s mine. I got married a little more than a week ago, and the commensurate hubub and family entertaining that happened wiped me out, and has meant that I’ve neglected the blog until the front page was blank (note to…
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Next Battle of the Indecency War is Cable and Satellite… and Unconstitutional
Salon has an article on the forces girding for the next stage of the regulatory battle over indecency. One of the next fronts may be cable and satellite, which FCC Chair Kevin Martin would like to see subjected to indecency regs just like broadcast TV and radio. According to Salon the staff of Senate Commerce…
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When Do “Alternative” Weeklies Cease Being Alternative?
Perhaps the answer to that question is: When their parent companies get as big as the rest of the rest of the media giants. The SF Bay Guardian has uncovered merger plans for the two reigning giants in the alternative weekly field, the Village Voice and the New Times, creating “an 18-paper chain controlled to…
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Podsafe Music Network: Great Idea, Rotten Terms
I’ve been considering changing the music used on the radioshow for a while, moving to music that I can guarantee is freely useable both on-air and in podcasts. A musician contacted me by email asking me to check out his work at the Podsafe Music Network, where artists can specifically license their songs to be…
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Headline News from Aug. 26 Radioshow
These are the news headlines as read on the Aug. 26 edition of the mediageek radioshow: CBC Lockout Continues, Workers Make Their Own Media; Stern Might Get Early Boot Over Indecency; FCC Approves Multicast Satellite Must Carry in HI & AK.
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Locked Out CBC Workers Podcast
A couple of days ago I posted about locked out CBC workers running on-line radio station, hoping that they would podcast so that listeners wouldn’t be beholden to a schedule for dialing in. Little did I know that Canadian radio blogger Tod Maffin had already done that at Odeo.com and the iTunes music store. Maffin…
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On Friday’s Radioshow: Aaron Glantz on How America Lost Iraq
A couple of hours ago I finished an interview with Free Speech Radio News reporter Aaron Glantz who spent time in Baghdad after Saddam fell, reporting for FSRN and Pacifica. He’s written a book about his experiences, How America Lost Iraq, and Champaign, IL is kind of his last stop on his DIY book tour.…