Category: mediageek status
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On Friday’s Radioshow: Immokalee Workers Using Independent Media to Fight for their Rights
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is on the McDonald’s Truth Tour 2006: The Real Rights Tour! Today they stopped in Champaign-Urbana for the afternoon, making an appearance on the U-C IMC‘s low-power station WRFU and joining a community potluck dinner at the IMC. A couple of folks on the tour were also nice enough to…
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One little mystery solved
I am very pleased that the mediageek radioshow continues to gain in popularity, at least as reflected by the number of downloads each edition receives. The average is now getting closer to 400 per program. But one of the shows, from Oct. 28 of last year, continues to blow all the other ones away, with…
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Zine References from the Friday, March 17 Radioshow
My pal Aj Michel resumed her crown as the mediageek radioshow zine queen on the Friday, March 17 edition, telling us about her favorite independently produced publications from the last year. These are the zines we discussed: Best Zine Ever 2006 Available through Microcosm, Parcell Press (www.parcellpress.com), Atomic Books (www.atomicbooks.com) or send two stamps (or…
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DJ Johnny Silver Scheduled for Friday’s Radioshow
After a few weeks of hard policy analysis on the radioshow, it’s time to get back to pirate radio. I’m scheduled tomorrow night to talk to DJ Johnny Silver from Nyack’s Iron Action Radio for broadcast on Friday. It looks like Johnny plans to broadcast the interview live on Iron Action, which also has a…
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Catch Up on the Radioshow: Broadcast Flag Hearing, Podcasting and Public Broadcasting, Nexstar and the Decline of Local TV
If you haven’t been tuning in to the mediageek radioshow in the last month, I think you’ve missed some pretty interesting programs. On Jan. 13 my guest was Ken Schreiner, who was formerly news director of Nexstar-owned WCIA-TV in Champaign, IL. Ken held nothing back talking about how Nexstar is defunding its local news operations…
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On Friday’s Radio Show: Independent Video Producer and Ex-Nexstar Employee Ken Schreiner; More Nexstar Bullying
I initially invited Ken Schreiner on the program because he’s a local guy who completed a feature documentary on the relationship between people and wild animals that he’s distributing on his website, along with other videos he’s produced. Only after extending the invitation did I realize that Ken used to work for our local Nexstar-owned…
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Rest of Pirate Radio USA Interview Will Be Posted by Midnight
Like I did with the part of the interview with WFMU’s Ken Freedman that didn’t air during the regular radio show, I will post about six minutes of my interview with DJ Him and DJ Her who produced the documentary Pirate Radio USA that there wasn’t time to air during today’s radioshow. If you’re already…
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Hear the rest of my interview with FMU’s Ken Freeman
As a new experiment, I decided to post the rest of the interview with Ken Freeman of WFMU that aired on today’s radioshow. We get into radio geeky stuff like programming philosophy which I think is pretty interesting, but there wasn’t really time for in the regular program. Check it out at the radioshow page.
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Welcome to the new mediageek
I’ve taken the big plunge and moved from Moveable Type to WordPress. I did so on the advice of other bloggers I respect (and who are more software savvy than I), and because WordPress is a free open source project. Moveable Type was unfortunately also getting a little creaky for me in terms of problems…
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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…