Author: Paul
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The Strike Newspaper Updated with Internet Radio
The English-language workers of the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Canada’s public broadcaster, are locked out as part of a labor dispute. Amongst the disagreements, the CBC wants to use more temporary workers who won’t qualify for the benefits that permanent workers enjoy. It is common for striking workers to publish their own newspaper, both as a…
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Headline News from Aug. 19 Radioshow
These are some of the news headlines as read on the Aug. 19, 2005 edition of the radioshow: Media Ownership Back on FCC Table in 30-60 Days; Two Big Telecomm Mergers on the Horizon; SBC Spends Big in Texas; CBC Labor Lockout; Indecency Complaints Down; Muni Broadband a Hot Topic with State Legislators.
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Thank You, Odeo
The nice folks at Odeo have chosen the mediageek radioshow as a featured podcast this week. I am grateful, and as this brings in more subscribers to the feed, I hope all the new listeners enjoy the program. As always, if you have any suggestions for things to cover or do a piece on the…
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Digital Video Direct to Disc or Card, Coming Soon, but Not Quite There Yet
Following up a bit on my last post, the photography website, Luminous Landscape, has a brief user review of the new JVC MC500 camcorder that records direct to compact-flash card, rather than DV tape. Now, before I get branded a luddite, I believe that this is the direction which digital video is going and should…
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Preserving Ephemera: Home Movies & Educational Video
Yesterday was Home Movie Day, and I missed it. I was catching up on some blog reading today and found this post about it at Stay Free! Daily, which directed me to a longer article that appeared in the last issue of Stay Free! magazine. The idea behind Home Movie Day is to embrace the…
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Low-Light Digicam Lust
In the last few years I’ve really come to enjoy still photography. I’ve been doing video for close to twenty years, and professionally for almost twelve, and yet until a few years ago never really messed with still cameras, much to many people’s suprise. I took up photography to some extent to help improve my…
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The Pirate on the Hudson Is Still Going
I just got an email from DJ Johnny Silver of Iron Action Radio. You may recall that I first posted about Nyack NY’s radio pirate back in January, when he was publicizing two dramatized videos about himself and his station. He says he’s finishing up the “3rd part in the series of films based on…
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More on TeleSur
Kari Lydersen files a nice article for Infoshop.org on the premiere of TeleSur a new Latin American TV news channel: Spanish-language TV both in the US and in many Latin American countries is perhaps best known for its sensational, sex- and drama-soaked telenovelas (soap operas) and variety shows, soccer games and news segments heavy on…
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FCC Chair Hires Bible-Thumper as “Special Advisor”
According to Mediaweek, FCC Chair Kevin Martin is preparing his forces for a major assault on broadcast indecency, including action on as many as 50 different complaints. As part of that, he’s hired on right-wing Christian anti-pornography activist to be a special advisor in the FCCÂ’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. The new…
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What to fix? LPFM or Translators?
John has some dirt on what’s going on behind the scenes in Congress with regard to restoring LPFM: [Rep. Louise] Slaughter has learned about the translator speculation and trafficking scheme that threatens to eat up space for new LPFM stations, and she’s pissed. So pissed, in fact, that she wants to include language in her…