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  • May 2 Radioshow Notes & Links

    Links and notes related to the May 2 mediageek radioshow: FCC Proceeding on localism: http://www.fcc.gov/localism Public Knowledge’s Orphan Works Act page: http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/ow Matthew Lasar’s Ars Technica article: NPR’s war on Low Power FM: the laws of physics vs. politics You can read the full test of the show’s news headlines after the jump.

  • 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.

  • Not dead, not sleeping

    A day job can be a catalyst or a killer for a blog. A catalyst if that day job provides ‘net access and lots of desk time. A killer when… well, there isn’t so much sit time. As I mentioned nearly two months ago, I have moved to Chicago from the much smaller burgh of…

  • The Radio Kitchen

    Thanks to Weatherall at the Cobalt Pet I just learned that WFMU DJ, The Professor, has his own blog now. The Radio Kitchen is where he shares the AM and shortwave radio bandscans of the sort he used to post to FMU’s Beware of the Blog. His richly annotated bandscans–recordings of late nights spent listening…

  • free103point9 Says There’s No News in the Times about Brooklyn Microradio

    Just noticed free103point9’s Tom Roe’s comments about the Times Brooklyn pirate radio article I blogged about yesterday. He calls it “under-reported,” by which I think he means “not sufficiently reported” by the freelancer who wrote the piece, not “under-reported” to mean “a story which deserves more coverage like this.” Roe goes on to comment that…

  • Radioshow 2007 Highlights

    There were actually more than two highlights from the radioshow in 2007, but for this last show in 2007 I wanted to focus on just two interviews to that if you missed them the first time around you’d still get some good info and context. I think both of these interviews will have continuing relevancy.…

  • Unforuntate Problem with NYC Pirates

    On the second year-end wrap-up radioshow, John Anderson mentioned a steep rise in the number of FCC enforcement actions in the New York City metro area, especially against unlicensed stations serving ethnic minorities who have little or no representation on licensed stations. Last week the NY Times ran a short story about college and public…

  • 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…

  • Fresh Air Double-Ender Correction

    Last week I noted in a post about my interview with Michael W Dean that the NPR program Fresh Air uses the same kind of recording method that we used. What we did was talk over Skype but record our own voice locally. Then Michael sent me a file of his audio and I edited…

  • 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…