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Author: Paul

  • Brattleboro Reformer Editorializes Cautious Support of radio free brattleboro

    Wednesday’s FCC raid of rfb doesn’t seemed to have affected the positive support for the station in the city of Brattleboro. The local paper chimes in with cautious support for the station, without necessarily endorsing unlicensed broadcasting as a whole, nor letting the FCC off the hook: Granted, the station operated outside the law. Simply…

  • mediageek on Odeo

    Odeo is a new podcasting web app that provides tools for producing, distributing and downloading podcast audio. Rabble from anarchogeek is one of the developers and he added the mediageek radioshow podcast to Odeo’s catalog. Invites to the beta of Odeo have been sent out to 12,700 people. Rabble sent me one a number of…

  • Roots of Radical Media in Detroit

    On yesterday’s radioshow I played part of a panel from last weekend’s Allied Media Conference, Radical Media: The Experience of Detroit. I played portions of the talk by Charles Simmons, who was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Next week, I’ll play audio from Abayomi Azikiwe who has been a radio host…

  • Sizing Up Local Public Radio

    My pal Jack Brighton is the assistant director for internet at my local public radio and TV station cluster, WILL. He’s single-handedly responsible for getting that station’s good local content onto the web for streaming and podcasting. Jack’s also keeping a blog on station and public broadcasting affairs, where’s he’s able to show a remarkable…

  • FRB’s Lawyer Wants FCC Held In Contempt of Court

    According to today’s Brattleboro Reformer, free radio brattleboro’s lawyer, James Maxwell plans to file a motion for the FCC to be held in contempt of court for Wednesday’s raid on the station. The article only hints around what justifies contempt in this case. I figure the reasoning will hinge on the fact that the FCC’s…

  • Capturing Public Broadcasting by Threat and Shady Gamesmanship

    Pre-P.S.: Just as I was finishing up this post, I learned that the House voted not to cut $100 million from the CPB. Is it coincidence that this happens within hours of the appointment of the new CPB CEO? I’m kind of immersed in the non-commercial radio world, at the intersection of public, community and…

  • Brattleboro Reformer on RFB Raid: Eyewitness Account, and Police Chief Distances His Force

    An article in today’s Brattleboro Reformer repeats most of the details contained in the station’s press release, but also has an eyewitness account of when the FCC and Federal Marshals hit the station early in the morning when it wasn’t staffed: Brooks House resident Joe Dever noticed something going on in rfb’s rented space Wednesday.…

  • Radio Free Brattleboro Raided Today

    I didn’t see this coming, since, as John pointed out, Radio Free Brattleboro’s case with the FCC is still pending in court, and the Feds only recently asked for a summary judgement. In fact, last year, the judge in the case ruled against the FCC’s request for an injunction to shut down the station while…

  • zine #3 is ready to go

    Last night I assembled and stapled mediageek zine #3, just in time to haul it out to the AMC today. I’m pretty happy with it, and it features the new mediageek logo, that you can see up on top of the homepage. Articles include an analysis of the Christian translator scandal by John Anderson, a…

  • On Fridays Radioshow: Jason Scott Is Now Shipping His BBS Documentary

    On this Friday’s mediageek radioshow, I’ll be talking to Jason Scott of Textfiles.com, whose recently completed BBS Documentary is now shipping. We’ll talk about how he put this 3-DVD project together, and why he chose to release the DVDs without copy protection and under a Creative Commons share-alike license. The radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30…