Category: the grassroots

The Hartford Courant profiles the producers behind the very good and very consistent weekly radio news program, Between the Lines: “In a mongrel studio at Bridgeport’s WPKN-FM, Scott Harris and his production crew compete for space with old televisions, record players, cardboard crates and even suitcases. … “‘We’re always up front with the fact that…

Jason, of Micro-Film mag fame, passed along to me this Film Threat review of an indy documentary called Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture. Although the reviewer comes off as kind of a butthead (despite giving the flick a positive review), I’m curious to see the movie. Culture Jamming is the territory where individuals take on the…

A.J. over at Papercuts has some choice words on the Google-Blogger deal: “While Blogger doesn’t have the cool factor of Moveable Type, I like it because it’s easy to use, accessible from almost anywhere, and has provided me with a place to host the ‘blog ad-free with little fuss. The truth is sometimes in order…

Yesterday I received an e-mail from mediachannel.org announcing that they’re going on hiatus due to funding problems: “We’ve had to make some difficult choices to insure our survival. We are sad to report that we are going on a temporary hiatus to cut our costs and give us some time to reorganize with some new…

Video Systems magazine has a nice article on the video production side of the Guerrilla News Network (GNN). It’s good to note that GNN basically operates off of one DV camcorder and two Mac G4s — it doesn’t take much hardware. Of course, it still does take a fair amount of time.

Anarchogeek is at the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre Brasil, and blogging updates. The WSF is the economic forum for the rest of the world that isn’t necessarily invited to the table at forums like the G8, Davos or WTO. Here’s where the true impact of globalisation is being tracked and coped with, with…

Congratulations go to Tom, Darryl and Duane for getting theri new low-power FM station WTND-LP 106.3 FM Macomb, IL fired up and on the air. Duane reports that they’re “running alternative stuff like FSRN and want to run various IMC programming including stuff from Urbana, Springfield, Chicago and other places.” I hope they choose to…

The story on low-power FM did indeed run on the Newshour last night. It’s surprisingly fair and not too harsh with the inevitable “who’s listening?” question. Also, I was glad to see that they didn’t take the angle of trying to make the low-power broadcasters look like a pack of nuts and misfits — instead…

The LA Times has a story about the more fringe content of some public access TV: “Stations nationwide offer the unedited whimsy of eccentric novice producers who will probably never be ready for prime time. Among the offerings have been the man in Michigan who went on the air with a penis puppet, the Manhattan…

I just heard through the grapevine that on tonight’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer there *might* be a story on a couple of new legal licensed low-power FM stations. Check your local PBS listings.