Tag: radio
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On this week’s radioshow: White Spaces Are Go!
On this week’s radioshow I’ll be speaking with Tim Karr, Campaign Director at Free Press and a contributor to the Huffington Post. We discuss the Tuesday vote at the FCC approving the use of white spaces for wireless broadband, along with a brief look at what an Obama White House means for media reform. The…
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On tonight’s radioshow: Chicago Independent Radio Project
While there is a lot of good non-commercial radio in Chicago, one thing the city lacks is a true community station, programmed entirely by community volunteers and funded by community donations. Of course, it’s great that college stations like Northwestern’s WNUR and University of Chicago’s WHPK actively open their studios to community programmers. However, even…
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A New Chapter for the Radioshow
In the best blogger style, I’m remembering to post this only hours in advance… Beginning tonight at 9 PM CDT the mediageek radioshow begins a new chapter with a new station. Tonight is the debut of the mediageek radioshow on WNUR 89.3 FM, the radio station of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, serving the north…
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WTF? Pacifica Docks Free Speech Radio News $13 Grand a Month
Being kind of distracted the last few months, I missed the news that the Pacifica network has cut its contribution to the Free Speech Radio News budget by $13,000 a month. For those not familiar with these two organizations, Pacifica is the nation’s first community radio organization, currently owning and operating five stations around the…
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Catching up with friends
My pals on the internets have been keeping busy informing the masses about what’s really going on with overlords of our media environment. If you don’t keep up with Matthew Lasar’s Ars Technica articles or John Anderson’s DIYmedia missives, here’s some recent posts you should check out: Matthew reports that FCC Democrat Jonathan Adelstein is…