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  • NPR Still Ludicriously Fighting LPFM

    It’s been eight years since the FCC voted to establish LPFM, and in that time NPR has only seen its fortunes rise, with listenership and income rising in sharp contrast to the fortunes of the Clear-Channeled commercial radio industry. Yet, as Matthew Lasar reports in Ars Technica, the nation’s largest public radio network continues to…

  • Radio Indymedia Is Back Online!

    Thanks to hardworking geek IMCistas Radio Indymedia is back online, providing a great resource for uploading and sharing radically independent, non-commercial audio and radio content. This is great because the extensive and valuable archives are again available, but also because it’s open to new content, too. For the six months or so that Radio Indymedia…

  • UNESCO and AMARC on the Oxacan Community Journalist Murders

    AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, clarifies the circumstances surrounding the murder of community radio journalists Felicitas Martínez Sánchez and Teresa Bautista Merino in the Mexican state of Oaxaca: [They] were accompanied by Faustino Vázquez Martínez, Cristina Martínez Flores and two minors on their way to their community, after having participated in a…

  • Academic Research on Community Radio

    Andrew points out that the new issue of the academic journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture is dedicated to community radio. As we discussed on the March 23 radioshow, Andrew is writing his doctoral dissertation on how new media technologies are affecting community radio.

  • Two young women journalists attacked and killed in Oaxaca

    Unfortunately, there is more bad news from Oaxaca, as reported by Reporters Without Borders. The two young women killed were working for a community radio station serving an indigenous population. Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the fatal shooting on 7 April in Putla de Guerrero, in the southern state of Oaxaca, of Teresa…

  • yes! Magazine and the SF Chronicle on Micropower Radio

    Why is it all of a sudden micropower radio articles are cropping up in both the mainstream and alternative press? Is it just a slow news time at the end of the year outside of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Iowa Caucuses? At least the last two I’ve seen have been far more…

  • Year-End Review Pt. 2

    The 2nd part of my year-end review radioshow with John Anderson from DIYmedia.net is online now. We cover the FCC’s all-but-elimination of the cross-ownership ban, and John catches us up with the year in FCC enforcement action against unlicensed stations. You can download the show at the radioshow page, or just listen here: [mp3]https://mediageek.net/sound/2007/mg20071221.mp3[/mp3]

  • Congress Says, Let’s Screw Up Broadcast Radio, too

    Never doubt the power of the lobby. Despite all the public uproar over the rising royalties levied on online radio broadcasters, paid to the recording industry, Congress is now considering putting similar royalties onto traditional broadcast radio. The fact that no royalties are paid by radio stations to the owners of the “performance” on a…

  • Reclaim the Media Presents Community Media Film Festival

    I think this is just a great idea and I wish I could be out in Seattle to attend. It’s a great weekend for community media events. You could start this weekend in Montreal for CKUT’s Redefining Media conference starting Friday (hear more about it on last Friday’s radioshow), then jet over to Seattle to…

  • FCC Sets Sensible Non-Comm FM License Limit Against the Wishes of Godcasters

    The application filing window for new full-power non-commercial FM stations opened yesterday (and somehow I totally spaced on mentioning it on yesterdays radioshow). On Wednesday, just two days in advance, the FCC finally decided to set a limit on the total number of applications that will be accepted, limiting it to 10 from any one…