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Radio and Revolution in Oaxaca, Mexico
Although it has fallen out of the US mainstream news, a people’s uprising is still going strong in Oaxaca, Mexico, spurred on by the June 14 attacks by Mexican government forces on the striking teachers’ tent city in Oaxaca City. One main reasons for the attack was to destroy the teachers’ free radio station Radio…
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radioshow news headline: FCC Broadband Report Not as Rosy as It Looks
From the Aug. 4, 2006 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Recently the FCC released a report saying that the number of high-speed internet connections in the US increased by 33% in 2005. The total number of high-speed lines at the end of 2005 was 50.2 millions, of which 43 million serve residential users. For the…
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radioshow news headline: HOUSE DEMS URGE OPENNESS ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP REVIEW
From the Aug. 4, 2006 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Eighty-four members of the House, all Democrats, save for one Republican, sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin calling on the Commission to conduct its review of media ownership rules in an open fashion. As I reported last week, the Martin plans to hold…
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Uploading the Old Minidiscs
I gave the new MZ-RH1 minidisc recorder a spin last night and I have to report that it works as advertised. I tried out three minidiscs recorded about 6 years ago in regular minidisc SP format and they uploaded to my PC and converted to WAV without a hitch. All these minidiscs were airchecks recorded…
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A Wee Little Bit of Justice…
It’s not media, but the news made me smile: Enron’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were just found guilty of fraud and conspiracy, which carry sentences of 5 to 10 years. Of course these evil fuckers will appeal, but at least they’ll squirm some more. Yet it’s amazing that these greedy bastards will get less…
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Minidisc Not Dead Yet
Like many long-standing minidisc users, I’ve been wondering when Sony will finally kill off this format. I do not live in a fantasy world, so I do realize that the tag-team of iPods, cheap MP3 players and an increasing number of high-quality portable digital audio recorders that use flash memory will spell the eventual end…
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Another Sinclair Newsroom Goes Bye-Bye
In what is becoming a common refrain for Sinclair, the company is shutting down its local news operation at WSTR-TV in Cincinnati. It’s Sinclair’s second newsroom in the city, but nevertheless employs 19 staffers who will all be looking for work.
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Trouble Downloading Radioshow?
It’s a little after midnight and the radioshow site isn’t responding. I’ve got a support request in, but it’s late. So if you need to download the radioshow (like, if you’re one of the show’s affiliates), the show itself isn’t off-line, here’s a link: mediageek 2-3-06 broadcast quality mp3 With luck, things will be cleared…
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Digital Video May Be Cheaper, but That Doesn’t Mean You’ll Profit
Wired News covers the problem the digital-video only film studio, InDigEnt, is having sustaining success and making money for itself and the filmmakers who take a chance on producing ultra-low-budget flicks on DV instead of film. The problem, of course, is not getting the movies made — it’s getting them distributed, since that’s where the…
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mediageek.org is back
For some of you fair readers mediageek may have been off-line for nearly a week — my apologies. It’s not been completely off-line, however. The mediageek.org domain went into domain limbo through a changeover of hosts and registrars. But, I actually moved the blog over to mediageek.net in November — since then most of what…