Category: mediageek status

Last night I had the opportunity to interview Leigh Robartes, who is one of the founders of Radio Free Moscow KRFP, in Moscow, ID. KRFP is one of the three stations that currently airs the mediageek radioshow. We talked about how the station got on the air and the media scene in the Moscow area.…

About 70 – 100 people attended a protest against Champaign, IL Sinclair station WICD on Saturday, Oct. 23. Amongst the protestors’ complaints were Sinclair’s threat of running a one-sided anti-Kerry documentary in prime time and the company’s “The Point” right-wing commentary that is appended to the local news without an opportunity for an opposing viewpoint.…

I’m happy to announce that the mediageek radioshow can now be heard on the airwaves outside of Champaign-Urbana, IL. The program has recently been picked up by two new legal LPFM stations: Radio Free Moscow KRFP, 92.5 FM, Moscow ID and KQRP 106.1 FM, Salida, CA. mediageek airs Tuesdays at 11 AM on KRFP, and…

In order to lighten the load on the server that hosts mediageek.org, I was using Archive.org’s Freecache service to cache the 64 kbps mp3 and ogg archives of the radioshow. Unfortunately, Freecache died without any real notice, putting these archives off-line, and I didn’t figure it out until today. Luckily, it’s an easy problem to…

Yesterday’s radioshow is now on-line for listening and downloading. It features audio from the press conference along with an interview with Nicole Lamers, a volunteer with VEYA, the organization sponsoring the Citizen Watch initiative documenting Champaign police conduct. We also preview Monday’s meeting of the Urbana Public TV commission where they will be discussing community…

Messed up my left wrist, making it difficult to type very much, so posting will be light or closer to one-liners — the last post left me tired.

On today’s mediageek radioshow, we’ll talk to Sarah from the A-Noise collective, which provided 24-hour web-radio coverage of the RNC protests for six days straight. We’ll also hear the story of one Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter who was arrested and detained at the now infamout Pier 57 facility. The radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30 PM on…

Last Friday’s radioshow featured a fun interview with Greg Boozell, an articulate guest, and the technical director for the Chicago Access Network and a member of the Urbana Public TV Commission. It’s now on-line for listening and download at the radioshow page.

Mark you calendars, I’m trying to post show topics ahead of time! On this forthcoming Friday’s edition of the mediageek radioshow, we’ll be talking to Greg Boozell, who is a member of the Urbana Public TV Commission, which oversees public access TV in Champaign-Urbana, and who is also the technology director for Chicago Access Network…

Last Friday’s radio show, featuring an IMC report-back from the DNC, is now on-line at the radioshow page.