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 […]
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Taking Another Stab at Restoring LPFM
After the FCC created the low-power FM radio service in 2000, Congressional Republicans in the pocket of the NAB made a last-minute backroom maneuver to add a major restriction to the service in a budget bill. The restriction requires 100-watt LPFM stations to be spaced on the dial the same as full-power stations as large […]
Two New Radio Show Affiliates
I’m glad to hear from new two new affiliates carrying the mediageek radioshow. WVEW-LP Brattleboro Community Radio in Vermont is the licensed low-power successor to unlicensed Free Radio Brattleboro, and they’re carrying the show Fridays at 10 AM. On the upcoming June 8 edition of the show I’ll be airing an interview with Larry Bloch, […]
Show notes for Feb. 16 radioshow: FCC makes LPFM exceptions; SFLR has its day in court
By Paul on February 19, 2007 in low-power radio, mediageek headlines, pirate/free radio, radio, The FCC
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net was my guest for the Feb. 16 edition of the mediageek radioshow [listen now]. We talked about a couple of exceptions the FCC has made with regard to issuing low-power FM licenses. First, the FCC has given “special temporary authority” to a former FM pirate in Goldfield, Nevada — read articles […]
Mobile FM Transmitters — A Modulator Menace, or a Mountain out of a Molehill?
By Paul on August 21, 2006 in examining the mainstream, low-power radio, media ownership & consolidation, radio
The traditional radio broadcast industry is getting pretty desperate lately. But while commercial radio has seen its fortunes slowly decline after squeezing out the consolidation profits, public radio has generally faired better. Nevertheless, there’s still some unregulated competition and interference coming from those little FM transmitters people use to pump their portable music players into […]