Podcast – mediageek radioshow
Podcast – mediageek radioshow
mediageek 24 December 2009: The Penultimate Mediageek
On this penultimate edition of mediageek I take a look back at two segments exploring unlicensed radio. First, we revisit some audio from the Radio Access Democracy conference in 2004, including interviews with participants of a transmitter building workshop. Then we listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey who produced the documentary Making Waves, which looks at the pirate radio scene in Tucson, AZ.
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mediageek 24 December 2009: The Penultimate Mediageek
On this penultimate edition of mediageek I take a look back at two segments exploring unlicensed radio. First, we revisit some audio from the Radio Access Democracy conference in 2004, including interviews with participants of a transmitter building workshop. Then we listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey who produced the documentary Making Waves, […]
mediageek 17 Dec 2009: The House Passes LPFM Restoration Bill
The big news this week is that the House finally voted on and passed the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. Now that we’re half-way to the restoration of LPFM I thought we’d take a look back at some of the pressure that caused the FCC to create LPFM in the first place. We revisit […]
mediageek 17 Dec 2009: The House Passes LPFM Restoration Bill
The big news this week is that the House finally voted on and passed the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. Now that we’re half-way to the restoration of LPFM I thought we’d take a look back at some of the pressure that caused the FCC to create LPFM in the first place. We revisit two interviews about Radio Free Brattleboro, a Vermont-based unlicensed micropower station that would–at least in spirit–be reincarnated as Brattleboro Community Radio.
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mediageek 10 December 2009: One Down, Three to Go, with the Yes Men
The mediageek radioshow is coming to a close with the end of 2009, so for the last four shows we’ll be listening to some of Paul’s favorite interviews from the last seven years. On today’s program we listen to two different interviews with media pranksters and identity correctors, the Yes Men. First we listen to […]
mediageek 10 December 2009: One Down, Three to Go, with the Yes Men
The mediageek radioshow is coming to a close with the end of 2009, so for the last four shows we’ll be listening to some of Paul’s favorite interviews from the last seven years. On today’s program we listen to two different interviews with media pranksters and identity correctors, the Yes Men. First we listen to an interview that first aired on Dec. 24, 2004, after the Yes Men impersonated Dow Chemical spokesmen to take responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, live on the BBC. T
mediageek 3 December 2009: Indymedia Turns 10
This week we discuss the ten-year anniversary of Indymedia and the “Battle in Seattle.” Also, an important announcement about the radioshow.
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mediageek 3 December 2009: Indymedia Turns 10
This week we discuss the ten-year anniversary of Indymedia and the “Battle in Seattle.” Also, an important announcement about the radioshow. Download/Podcast: mediageek 3 December 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!
mediageek 12 November 2009: Knight Commission Studies Info Needs of Communities
At a time when media and information technology continues to become more pervasive, it stands to question whether all this tech actually gives us access to the information we need to live our lives better as individuals and citizens. The Knight Commission was formed to investigate the information needs of communities in a democracy and […]
mediageek 12 November 2009: Knight Commission Studies Info Needs of Communities
At a time when media and information technology continues to become more pervasive, it stands to question whether all this tech actually gives us access to the information we need to live our lives better as individuals and citizens. The Knight Commission was formed to investigate the information needs of communities in a democracy and recently released a report that assesses the types of information needed and makes recommendations for meeting those needs. Already the report has garnered atten
mediageek 5 November 2009: Possible Interference Boost for HD Radio & SF’s Pirate Cat Leaves the Air
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins us this week to review recent news in digital and pirate radio. First he tells us about a proposed power boost for HD Radio that would increase interference on the FM dial. Then we discuss the recent voluntary shutdown of San Francisco’s Pirate Cat radio in response to an FCC […]
mediageek 5 November 2009: Possible Interference Boost for HD Radio & SF’s Pirate Cat Leaves the Air
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins us this week to review recent news in digital and pirate radio. First he tells us about a proposed power boost for HD Radio that would increase interference on the FM dial. Then we discuss the recent voluntary shutdown of San Francisco’s Pirate Cat radio in response to an FCC threat.
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mediageek 5 November 2009: Possible Interference Boost for HD Radio & SF’s Pirate Cat Leaves the Air
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins us this week to review recent news in digital and pirate radio. First he tells us about a proposed power boost for HD Radio that would increase interference on the FM dial. Then we discuss the recent voluntary shutdown of San Francisco’s Pirate Cat radio in response to an FCC threat.
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mediageek 29 October 2009: FCC Revisits Network Neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss the proposed rules and their possible impact.
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mediageek 29 October 2009: FCC Revisits Network Neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss the proposed rules and their possible […]
mediageek 29 October 2009: FCC Revisits Network Neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss the proposed rules and their possible impact.
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mediageek radioshow 15 October 2009: A Real Shot at LPFM Expansion?
On October 15 the House Commerce Committee passed the Local Radio Act by unanimous voice vote, potentially clearing the way for the best shot LPFM has had at being restored since 2000. We discuss this optimistic news along with the FCC clearing the way for noncommercial FM stations to move in on the space formerly […]
mediageek 10 October 2009: ChiTownDailyNews Tries a New Model for Local Journalism
Due to disastrous technical difficulties the live recording of this week’s show was lost. Instead, here is one from the archives: April 2, 2009 Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews, a locally-focused news website employing professional journalists working with over 100 volunteer reporters to cover Chicago news not reported in the major mainstream […]
mediageek 1 October 2009: Environmental Encroachment
Environmental Encroachment is a Chicago-based marching band that bills itself as a magic circus band. The unit is a group of free-thinking musicians who are out there not just talking about reclaiming the streets for art and culture, but doing it. EE is on its way to a gathering of like-minded bands in Somerville, MA called Honk! Fest which starts the band’s East Coast tour. In a change of pace for mediageek we’ll listen to a dozen members of the band play live in the studio, in addition to talk
mediageek 24 September 2009: FCC Chair Introduces New Net Neutrality Principles
My pal John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins this week to talk over FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announcing two new network neutrality principles and the whole Commission endorsing low-power FM.
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mediageek 18 September 2009: Encore of Jerry Del Colliano
My June 18 interview with radio industry veteran and the man behind InsideMusicMedia.com, Jerry Del Colliano, seems to be a favorite. This is no doubt due to Jerry’s unflinching observations on how the nation’s largest radio groups missed the boat on the internet generation while they were busy playing Monopoly with radio stations. So this week we revisit this interview.
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mediageek 10 September 2009: Douglas Rushkoff on everyday action and bottom-up media.
This week we listen to part two of my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Life Inc., How the World Became a Corporation and How We Can Take It Back. We discuss the importance and vitality of everyday independent and collective action, and the joy of grassroots, bottom up media.
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mediageek 3 September 2009: Douglas Rushkoff on Life, Inc
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and grassroots media maker who recently published the new book Life, Inc. In the book Rushkoff explores how our corporate-dominated life came to be, looking to the corporation’s origins in the Renaissance and its path to modern hegemony. All the while Rushkoff contends that this path wasn’t inevitable, but is the result of specific events over time. In this interview Rushkoff discusses this history and how modern corporatism alienates us from our communities and eac
mediageek 27 August 2009: Speed Matters When It Comes to Broadband
Communication Workers of America release a study on broadband speed state-by-state, and CWA vice-president Annie Hill tells us the scores and what they mean. Also, the FCC announces a wide-ranging inquiry into wireless communications technology innovation and competition.
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mediageek 20 August 2009: Uncertain Futures and the New FCC
Tim Hwang is a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and he recently co-authored a short research report examining the new FCC commissioners for the Pelican Group. In the report, titled “Uncertain Futures,” Hwang and co-author Erikk Hokenson look focus particularly on the two new commissioners, Republican Meredith Atwell Baker and Democrat Mingon Clyburn, primarily because they were relatively unknown prior to their nominations to the FCC. Tim is our guest on this edition o
mediageek 13 August 2009: Citizens Utility Board Protects Consumers’ Rights
The Illinois Citizens Utility Board looks out for consumers’ rights when dealing with utility companies, including both telephone and cell phone companies. CUB’s communications director, Jim Chilsen, joins to explain more about how everyone can save money on land-line and cell phone bills by looking out for unnecessary charges and services.
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mediageek 6 August 2009: FCC Makes Inquiry into iPhone App Store
Recently Apple’s iPhone app store came under scrutiny again when news surfaced that the new Google Voice application had been blocked. Though no reason has been specified by Apple, there are strong suspicions that the company is attempting to prevent competition from AT&T’s voice service and other businesses that Google Voice might pose a challenge to. Now the FCC has stepped in with letters of inquiry to Apple, AT&T and Google. Free Press’ Tim Karr has been covering the issue of mobile device f
mediageek 30 July 2009: Finally a Full FCC, Performance Rights Act & more
This week it’s a big news update as we cover the Senate confirmation of the last two new FCC commissioners, the progress of the Performance Rights Act in the Senate and take a look at NPR’s new website which looks like a bid to become a new web news portal.
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mediageek 23 July 2009: Matthew Lasar on Radio and the New FCC
Matthew Lasar, media historian and writer for ArsTechnica, joins again to discuss the future of radio and the new line up of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission.
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mediageek 16 July 2009: The Value of College Radio
Jennifer Waits is a college radio enthusiast. From getting her start at Haverford College’s carrier-current WHRC to DJing at Foothill College’s KFJC Waits has worked at a variety of stations, always propelled by her love of independent music and media. She blogs about her passion at Spinning Indie where she posts reports from her tours of stations around the country, along with news of relevance to college radio. She joins the program this week to talk about the important place college radio has
mediageek 9 July 2009: Commercial Radio Plays the Same Old Songs
Nearly four years ago the four largest commercial radio owners promised to play more independent music as part of a consent degree arising from the payola scandal. But still, not much has changed. The Future of Music Coalition has been tracking radio playlists to see if commercial stations have been keeping their promises. FMC’s Kristin Thomson joins to discuss the situation.
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mediageek 2 July 2009: Retro Technology in a Down Economy
This week is an encore presentation of this program from January 22:
RetroThing.com is a website and blog dedicated to interesting and fun retro and vintage gadgets, electronics, toys and technology that might have been forgotten, but still have their uses. Co-editor of the site, Bohus Blahut, joins us to talk about the appeal of vintage tech, and how useful and fun stuff may be waiting for you in the back of your closet.
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mediageek 25 June 2009: FCC Chair Finally Confirmed
On the day that Michael Jackson died the other big news is that the Senate finally confirmed our new FCC Chair, Julius Genachowski. Also, we talk about how the debate over the Performance Rights Act is heating up.
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mediageek 18 June 2009: Inside the Consolidation and Decline of Commercial Radio
Jerry Del Colliano is veteran radio industry insider who watched as the industry consolidated at a rapid rate following the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He foresaw how that consolidation would jeopardize the business of radio built on local service and innovative programming, commenting in the industry newsletter Inside Radio. After leaving the industry to teach at the University of Southern California Jerry is back, publishing the blog Inside Media Media, where he covers the future of audio
mediageek 11 June 2009: Radios Populares Bringing Community Radio to Latin American
Radios Populares is a Chicago-based group that works in solidarity with communities and grassroots organizations in Latin America to help them build community radio stations. Two volunteers with the group, Allan Gomez and Lisa Matuska, join to talk about their work.
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mediageek 21 May 2009 part 2: More with Daniel Gilfillan Discussing Radio
This is part two of my interview with Daniel Gilfillan, author of Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio. We bring our discussion of German radio innovators into the late 20th century with the emergence of pirate and commercial radio in Germany. We also discuss contemporary radio and its future in the internet age.
This part two comes from the live aircheck of the May 21, 2009 broadcast of mediageek on WNUR-FM and is not intended for syndication.
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mediageek 4 June 2009 part 2: More with Alec Foege
This is more of my conversation with Alec Foege, discussing Clear Channel Communications and the decline of commercial radio. In this portion we discuss Clear Channel’s political leanings, Rush Limbaugh and the potential for a revival of commercial radio.
This part 2 is not intended for syndication. Mediageek affiliate stations please play part 1.
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[mp3]http://mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090604-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek radioshow 4 June 2009: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio
This week’s guest is Alec Foege, author of the book Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio. We talk about how a small, regional radio broadcast company from San Antonio turned into the largest radio broadcaster in the country, along with becoming the poster child for the destruction of commercial radio.
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mediageek 28 May 2009: Public Relations and the Crisis in Journalism
Public relations tactics have been used by major corporate polluters to “greenwash” their image and by the Pentagon to sell war policies to the American public. With the crisis in journalism will paid pundits and messages replace true reported stories? Diane Farsetta, senior researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy, joins to discuss this topic.
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mediageek 21 May 2009: German Experimental Radio
Early German radio enthusiasts, scholars and producers sought to make that medium something more than a means for broadcasting light entertainment and, eventually, propaganda. In his book Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio, Daniel Gilfillan makes crucial connections between these early experiments and our contemporary multimedia world where we still stand in that disputed territory between producer and receiver. Gilfillan is associate professor of German Studies in the School of Internat
mediageek 7 May 2009 Part 2: More with Anne Elizabeth Moore
Part 2 of the May 7 program continues my conversation with Anne Elizabeth Moore about her Holle Cambodia project. We also talk about the challenges facing independent media while consolidated commercial media has its own crisis.
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mediageek 7 May 2009 part 2 broadcast quality mp3 (not a full show – not for syndication)
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090507-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 14 May 2009: Radio Performance Royalty Bill Passes House Committee
Satellite radio, internet radio, even radio in other countries have to pay royalties to the performers on the CDs they play, but not US broadcasters. That might change soon. A bill just passed a House committee that would end this decades old exemption. We discuss the question: should radio stations pay these royalties to artists and record labels, or is the promotional value of radio a sufficient quid pro quo?
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mediageek 7 May 2009 – Anne Elizabeth Moore and Holle Cambodia
Anne Elizabeth Moore is a veteran of many independent media projects–including the much missed Punk Planet magazine–and author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity. In 2008 she traveled to Cambodia for a residency in a women’s college dormitory where she introduced self-publishing in the form of zines. In this edition of the program we discuss the meaning of self-publishing in a country where women have been discouraged from self-expression and where
mediageek 20 April 2009: The Court Rules Narrowly on Indecency
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins to talk about some of the latest news or import to radio. The Supreme Court finally rules on fleeting indecency, slicing the decision so thin, you’d think they used a Ginsu. We also talk about commercial stations starting to beg for donations.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090430.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 23 April 2009: Community Radio’s Founding Station Turns 60
This week Matthew Lasar, writer for ArsTechnica, returns. He’s in Washington DC right now, so he updates us on some hot communications topics in Congress. Then we reflect on 60 years of the first community radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, and discuss the difficulty of building a democratic radio network.
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mediageek 17 April 2009: Time Warner Cable Folds on Bandwidth Caps
Time Warner Cable threatens to “test” absurdly low bandwidth caps in five more cities, then backs down when the public lets them have it. Also, Chicago’s Streetwise newspaper is having financial trouble.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090417.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 9 April 2009: Newspapers’ Troubles Making Copps Go Soft
Chicago recently earned the dubious distinction of having the parent companies both major newspapers and the largest alternative weekly declare bankruptcy. And Chicago is not alone in having troubles with its newspapers. It’s getting so bad that even ardent anti-consolidation acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps is showing signs of softening on cross-ownership. We explore this issue, and the FCC’s new National Broadband Plan.
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mediageek 2 April 2009: ChiTownDailyNews Tries a New Model for Local Journalism
Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews, a locally-focused news website employing professional journalists working with over 100 volunteer reporters to cover Chicago news not reported in the major mainstream news outlets. On this edition of the radioshow Geoff tells us about the site and the reasons why it pursues a this model.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090402.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 26 March 2009: Knight Drupal Initiative Funds Innovative Open Source Platforms for Online Journalism
The Knight Foundation’s Drupal Initiative awarded $480,000 to six different projects using the Drupal open source content management platform to develop innovative online applications for journalism. Jose Zamora, journalism program associate at the Knight Foundation, tells us more about the initiative.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090326.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 19 March 2009: Chicago Independent Radio Project
This week is an encore edition originally broadcast Oct. 9, 2008:
There is a group of motivated radio lovers in Chicago who think that the city needs a real community radio station, independent of a college, university or other organization that might change its mind about who can be on the radio. Shawn Campbell is the president of the Chicago Independent Radio Project, and she joins me this week to talk about why Chicago needs community radio, and how they hope to squeeze a new noncommercial st
mediageek 12 March 2009: Copyright, Net Neutrality & Fairness Doctrine, Oh My!
This week we look at the latest YouTube phenom, Kutiman, and why it’s relevant to the fight for a free, neutral internet. Paul also rants a bit about the Fairness Doctrine non-debate.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090312.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 5 March 2009: News Roundup – FCC Nominee Officially Announced, Non-comms Ask for Early DTV Transition & more
Now that President Obama has finally gotten down his nominations list to FCC Chair, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer things are starting to heat up in Washington, so that means we need to catch up and consider what this means for our communications environment. We also review some noncommercial TV stations asking the FCC to turn off their analog signals before the extended April 12 deadline, and the FCC opening up public comment regarding the public service channels to be a
mediageek 26 February 2009: New Hope for LPFM & the Chicago Journalism Town Hall
Another year, another bill to restore LPFM is introduced into Congress. Only, this time, with GW Bush out of the White House and Democrats in charge of Congress, it looks like LPFM has a fighting chance. Also, we listen to excerpts from the Chicago Journalism Town Hall tackling head on the future of local news as the commercial papers stand on the brink of extinction.
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mediageek 2009-02-19 Part Two: More on Radio’s Downfall
In part two of the Feb. 19 program John Anderson and I continue our conversation about the downfall of broadcast and satellite radio, discussing the industry insider insights of Jerry Del Colliano as expressed on his Inside Music Media blog.
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mediageek 2009-02-19 Part Two, broadcast quality mp3
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090219-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 19 February 2009: Charting the Economic Decline of Radio
Both broadcast and satellite radio are experiencing an unprecedented decline in economic fortune. The broadcasters would have us believe they’re the victim of competition from the internet. But the examination of fundamental economics shows a different story of over-leveraging and bad investments. John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins to help sort things out.
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mediageek 12 February 2009: Jim Romenesko on the State of Journalism
Jim Romenesko is one of the original bloggers, writing his daily Media News site since the late 90s, offering up a must-visit for both media insiders and others interested in what goes on inside the sausage factory. On this edition Jim discusses why he writes the site and what he makes of the current downturn in print journalism.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090212.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 5 February 2009: Streetwise
Streetwise is a social enterprise designed to help severely impoverished men and women out of poverty. They publish weekly StreetWise, a general interest newspaper with a gritty “from the streets perspective” to give insight to its readers on what is really going on in Chicago.
Suzanne Hanney is the Editor-in-Chief of Streetwise and Ben Cook is the Production Director. The join this edition of mediageek to talk about the paper and its mission.
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mediageek 29 January 2009: Propsed DTV Delay Gets Delayed
So much has happened–and yet, not happened–in the new year with a new Congress and a new president, that it’s time for a news update. DTV delay gets bogged down in the House, net neutrality-looking stuff is passed in House stimulus package, and Cox Communications announces plans to start messing with customers’ broadband Comcast-style.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090129.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 22 January 2009 part 2: More Retro Tech with Bohus Blahut
In the second half (more like 17 minutes due to getting a late start on the program) of the Jan. 22 edition of mediageek Bohus Blahut of RetroThing.com sticks around to talk about some of his very favorite retro items, and play “stump the guest” with some vintage vinyl.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090122-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 15 January 2009: More with Matthew Lasar on Digital TV
Matthew was able to stick around for a little longer than the usual half-hour show, so we were able to continue our discussion to talk about the upcoming digital television transition.
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mediageek 15 January 2009 part 2 – broadcast quality mp3
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090115-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 22 January 2009: Retro Technology in a Down Economy
RetroThing.com is a website and blog dedicated to interesting and fun retro and vintage gadgets, electronics, toys and technology that might have been forgotten, but still have their uses. Co-editor of the site, Bohus Blahut, joins us to talk about the appeal of vintage tech, and how useful and fun stuff may be waiting for you in the back of your closet.
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mediageek 22 January 2009 broadcast quality mp3
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090122.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 15 January 2009: Talking about the FCC Chair Apparent
Word on the streets is that Obama’s nominee for FCC Chair is a law school classmate of his, and former counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, Julius Genachowski. However, until recently most observers hadn’t heard of him. Arstechnica‘s Matthew Lasar has been doing his research and joins us again to share what he knows, and what he forsees for a Genchowski FCC.
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090115.mp3[/m
mediageek 8 January 2009: First News Update of the New Year
A lot happened in the media and telecomm world this first week of the new year, so Andrew and I review some of the items at the top of our list. First up is the growing list of politicos and groups calling for a delay of the Feb. 17 digital TV transition. We also touch on Sun Times Media shutting down suburban newspaper and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan looking into allegations that AT&T is shortchanging public access channels on its U-Verse service.
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mediageek 8 Janu
mediageek 1 Jan 2009 part 2 – FCC Enforcement Action 2008
In the second half of the Jan. 1 program guest John Anderson and I talked about the FCC’s record of enforcement action against unlicensed and pirate broadcasters in 2008. Hot spots continue to be New York and Miami, though there’s reasons to doubt that FCC action is resulting in any significant decrease in piracy.
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mediageek 1 Jan 2009 part 2, broadcast quality mp3
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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090101-pt2.mp3[/mp3]
mediageek 1 Jan 2009: 2008 Year in Review
John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins for our annual look back at the year that was for media policy, reform and democracy. For all the hoopla, not much actually happened for real, so we get to talking about Prof. Larry Lessig’s recent salvo to “Reboot the FCC.”
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mediageek 25 December 2008: The Handmade Nation
This week, inspired by the upswing in crafts as gifts for the holidays, we revisit an interview with Handmade Nation co-author and filmmaker Faythe Levine, originally aired on the Aug. 22, 2008 edition of the show.
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mediageek 18 December 2008: The Falsies Awards
For the past five years the Center for Media and Democracy has bestowed the Falsie award on the PR flacks, pundits and other professional spinners who’ve most eroded the public trust. CMD’s Senior Researcher Diane Farsetta joins to talk about the winners of this year’s Falsies.
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mediageek 11 December 2008: Looking Behind the Curtain at the Tribune Bankruptcy
Mitchell Szczepanczyk from Chicago Media Action joins to discuss the Dec. 8 filing for bankruptcy by the Tribune Company. Mitchell has been watching Tribune for many years now, since the company is a major media player both in the Chicago area and nationally. So he has some longitudinal perspective often lacking in press reports.
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mediageek 4 December 2008: Communication Rights and Freedom of Expression
On Nov. 7 the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, celebrated its 25th anniversary with a conference held in Montreal, QC. Community radio CKUT‘s News Collective recorded the conference, making the audio available to other community radio stations to share. On this edition of the radioshow we listen to two presentations from the panel on “Communication Rights and Freedom of Expression.” We hear from Frank la Rue, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Toby Mendel
mediageek 20 November 2008 – Part 2 of interview with Tom Roe
The live broadcast of mediageek goes for a full hour, although only 30 minutes is posted for syndication and podcast. I’ve posted the 2nd half of a few shows, but I’ve got a pretty good backlog going on right now.
Here’s the 2nd half of last Thursday’s show featuring Tom Roe, program director for free103point9. It’s not a full half-hour because the show only ran about 45 minutes due to a Northwestern Women’s Basketball broadcast running a little late.
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mediageek 20 November 2008: free103point9 to return to the airwaves
free103point9 is a transmission arts organization that started as a micropower radio station, moved online and broadened its horizons to become a sponsor and creator of sonic art. Now the group is poised to return to the broadcast airwaves after receiving a full-power non-commercial FM broadcast license from the FCC. free103point9 program director Tom Roe joins to talk about the station and transmission arts.
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mediageek 13 November 2008: The Yes Men Pull Another Amazing Stunt
John Anderson–he of 40+ appearances on mediageek–travels north to be live in the WNUR studio so we can discuss the Yes Men’s latest hoax, distributing over a million copies of their own special edition of the New York Times declaring the Iraq war to be over. Somehow we also manage to dovetail into talk about pirate radio and other media reform topics.
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mediageek 6 November 2008: Looking into the crystal ball
On November 4 two decisions with great importance to our nation were made: the election of Barack Obama as president, and the FCC’s decision to open up whitespace spectrum to broadband internet. Free Press’ campaign director Tim Karr joins to talk about the impact of these two decisions.
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mediageek 30 October 2008: The Potential of White Spaces
FCC-watcher Matthew Lasar joins again to tell us more about the importance of the radio spectrum that will lie vacant after the digital TV transition in Februrary, 2009, and how it might be used for wireless broadband internet.
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mediageek 23 October 2008: The Internet and Community Radio
This week’s guest is my pal Andrew O’Baoill who joins to discuss his dissertation work exploring the relationship if internet broadcasting with community radio, including the benefits of webcasting and podcasting, and the challenges these new media pose to traditional broadcasters.
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mediageek 16 October 2008 part 2: Evanston Organizes to Stop the Box
A little-recognized aspect of Illinois’ new statewide cable TV franchise law is that it takes away local municipalities’ ability to enforce zoning laws and similar provisions when it comes to how cable TV providers use the public right-of-way. Residents of Evanston, IL got a rude wake up call to this provision when AT&T started installing large and loud refrigerator-sized utility boxes in front of and behind residences all over this Chicago suburb. Not only is the city government prevented from
mediageek 16 October 2008: Chicago Media Action
This week Mitchell Szczepanczyk from Chicago Media Action joins us to talk about some of their top media reform issues right now. In particular, we get into the digital TV transition, and the folks who will be left behind, along with CMA’s challenges to Chicago TV broadcasters’ FCC licenses over the poor quality of their local election coverage.
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mediageek 9 Oct. 2008 part 2 – more with Shawn Campbell of Chicago Independent Radio Project
My new timeslot on WNUR is an hour long, giving me twice the airtime of the original mediageek radioshow. What I’ve decided to do is treat the first half-hour as a self-contained program matching the format that the program has had up to now, distributing this to the show’s affiliate stations around the continent.
With the second half-hour I’m taking a looser approach, often focusing on issues that are more local in nature for the Evanston-Chicago area. If the week’s guest is able to stick arou
mediageek 9 October 2008: Chicago Independent Radio Project
There is a group of motivated radio lovers in Chicago who think that the city needs a real community radio station, independent of a college, university or other organization that might change its mind about who can be on the radio. Shawn Campbell is the president of the Chicago Independent Radio Project, and she joins me this week to talk about why Chicago needs community radio, and how they hope to squeeze a new noncommercial station onto the dial.
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mediageek 3 October 2008: Neighborhood Public Radio
Due to being overworked, along with a last-minute pre-emption, this week’s show is an encore edition from May 23:
This week the feature is the other NPR – Neighborhood Public Radio. Itâ€s a broadcasting art project, taking open-mic studios to art galleries to connect with the surrounding community through radio. I had a chance this week to stop in to NPRâ€s storefront studio next door to the Whitney Museum in New York City, where theyâ€re participating in the Whitney Biennial. In part one of my
mediageek 25 September 2008: A New Beginning
This show marks the debut of mediageek on its new home station, WNUR 89.3 FM in Evanston, IL, broadcasting to the north side of Chicago and the North Shore suburbs. My pal John Anderson guests to help re-inaugurate the program as we review the raison d’ete of mediageek, and new producer Andrew Gothelf shares his own brief experience interning in a commercial radio newsroom that quickly disappeared.
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mediageek 5 September 2008: Voices of America
Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist who works in radical media, investigating the ways histories, public spaces, and forms of citizenship influence one another and shape the realm of political possibility. Her newest project, Voices of America, invites participants to take audio snippets from the US government’s Voice of America radio service and remix them and share those remixes. On this edition of mediageek Sarah tells us about this project and how it fits in with the 2008 presidenti
mediageek 15 August 2008: Pirate Broadcast in China Protests State Suppression of Journalists
The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders set up the first non-state radio station in China since 1949 to broadcast a message in protest against Chinese officials continued suppression of free speech and jailing of journalists, even as the Beijing Olympics are underway. We’ll listen to that broadcast, and catch up on how former FCC officials are joining the fight against the FCC’s current indecency rules.
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mediageek 8 August 2008: FCC Spanks Comcast, but Doesn’t Leave a Mark
The FCC finally took action against Comcast for its discriminatory network management practices that blocked its internet customers’ BitTorrent file-sharing traffic. However, while it’s good to see the FCC action, it’s still a mixed decision.
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mediageek 1 August 2008: The Nation’s Biggest Pirates Merge
The Sirius/XM satellite radio merger was finally approved by the FCC, providing a bare few gimmies for the public interest after months of lobbying and waiting. But the story behind the last-minute tie-breaking vote has to do with both companies’ history of pirate operations. DIYmedia‘s John Anderson has be tracking the story for years now and fill us in on the details.
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mediageek 25 July 2008: Radio and the March of Technology
This week an encore edition from March:
Andrew Oâ€Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio.
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mediageek 18 July 2008: The Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive aims to be a curated warehouse of music from all genres that is licensed by the artist, label or other rights holder for free use under a Creative Commons license. The Archive is a project of free form community radio station WFMU, and station manager Ken Freedman tells us more about it.
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mediageek 11 July 2008: Lasar on Sirius/XM and Fleeting Expletives
FCC watcher Matthew Lasar joins again to update us on just a few things happening with the FCC, including the Sirius/XM merger and the upcoming Supreme Court review of fleeting expletives.
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mediageek 4 July 2008: news wrap-up
This week it’s a big news wrap up with stories on some promised concessions from XM and Sirius in exchange for FCC approval of their planned merger, how AT&T and Verizon are asking the FCC to act on Net Neutrality and Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking, and some questionable police action against a Georgia pirate.
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mediageek 27 June 2008: Community Radio in Eastern Europe
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins again to tell us more about some of the community stations he visited and learned about while at a digital radio conference in Budapest, Hungary.
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mediageek 2008-06-20: Digital Radio in Europe
Digital HD Radio in the US has been available for a couple of years now, but doesn’t seem to be clicking with the listening public. Europe has had a completely different digital radio system available in many countries for several years, too, but it doesn’t appear to be much more popular. Mediageek’s resident digital radio expert John Anderson recently spoke at a radio conference in Budapest, Hungary and tells us more about the role of digital radio on the continent.
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mediageek 2008-06-13: Translator Stations Threaten LPFM
This week an encore edition from March:
Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that arenâ€t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us more on this weekâ€s show.
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mediageek 2008-06-06: Media Heroes Trading Cards
Reclaim the Media’s Jonathan Lawson joins to talk about RTM’s series of Media Heroes trading cards celebrating the lives and work of people who made our current world of independent/grassroots media possible, and who laid the groundwork for the media reform movement.
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mediageek 2008-05-30: npr meets NPR
This week’s feature is part 2 of my interview with Lee Montgomery of Neighborhood Public Radio. In this second half Lee tells us what reaction they got when members of the National Public Radio board visited their neighborhood-based mirror image station in Manhattan.
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mediageek 2008-05-23: Neighborhood Public Radio
This week the feature is the other NPR – Neighborhood Public Radio. It’s a broadcasting art project, taking open-mic studios to art galleries to connect with the surrounding community through radio. I had a chance this week to stop in to NPR’s storefront studio next door to the Whitney Museum in New York City, where they’re participating in the Whitney Biennial. In part one of my interview, NPR’s Lee Montgomery tells us about Neighborhood Public Radio, its origins and what they’re doing.
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mediageek 2008-05-16: The Media According to Matthew Lasar
Matthew Lasar is an astute observer of the American media policy landscape. A media historian and lecturer at U-C Santa Cruz, he’s authored two definitive books on the Pacifica Network, and currently writes for his own website, the Lasar Letter on the FCC, and for the tech new site ArsTechnica. Matthew joins me to talk about the importance of understanding media policy and regulation and what he thinks the most important issues are right now.
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mediageek 2008-05-09: How the FCC builds its case against Pirates
A little FOIA request made by a northern California student newspaper reveals how the FCC builds a case against suspected pirate broadcasters. I review that curious information, along with other news updates.
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mediageek 2008-05-02: Turning Up the Heat on Martin & Disappointed in NPR
The House Commerce Committee may hold a public hearing on how Chairman Martin is running things at the FCC, while the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously votes to disapprove the Commission’s party-line vote to all but dissolve the cross-ownership ban. I also discuss NPR’s recent ludicrous comments to the FCC opposing protections for low-power FM stations.
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mediageek 2008-04-25: The Senate Commerce Committee Hears about Net Neutrality… Again
Hot on the heels of the FCC’s Stanford hearing on broadband network management practices, the Senate Commerce Committee had its own hearing on the issue, with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in the spotlight to explain how the Commission will guarantee a free and open internet. We’ll listen to some of Martin’s comments, and the grilling he received from key Senators. We’ll also listen to an excerpt from Prof. Larry Lessig’s excellent presentation on net neutrality that he gave at the Stanford hearing.
mediageek 2008-04-18: Highlights from FCC Stanford Hearing
On April 17 the FCC took another stab at holding a public hearing on broadband network management practices, aka Network Neutrality. This one was arguably more successful than the first Harvard one in Feb., if for no other reason than Comcast didn’t hire people to take seats away from interested members of the public. On this edition of the show we listen to some highlights from the expert testimony. We also hear a little bit of Tim Robbins’ speaking truth to the NAB.
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mediageek 2008-04-04: Comcast Makes Nicey with BitTorrent
A news wrap-up this week: Comcast makes nice with BitTorrent and Chairman Martin wants to nix Skype’s petition for open wireless.
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mediageek 2008-03-28: Making Sense of the Spectrum Auction
The FCC just completed a set of auctions for radio frequency spectrum that will soon be vacated when analog TV goes dark in 2009. Spectrum is the valuable real estate for wireless communications, so the outcome of this auction will have significant long-lasting implications for the future of the internet, broadband and our ability to communicate freely. Craig Aaron, communications director for Free Press, helps break down what happened and what it means.
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mediageek 2008-03-21: Radio and the March of Technology
Andrew O’Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio.
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mediageek 2008-03-14: Translator Stations Threaten LPFM
Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that aren’t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us more on this week’s show.
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mediageek 2008-02-29: Stand-Ins Warming the Bench for Comcast at the FCC Hearing
At the FCC’s hearing on network neutrality on Feb. 24 Comcast admitting to hiring people off the street to be place holders for its employees in the face of limiting seating. Problem was, those mythical employees never showed up and helped Comcast pack the room instead. This week guest John Anderson returns to talk about the latest in Comcast’s dirty tricks to stack the deck against internet freedom.
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mediageek 2008-02-22: We Go Freeform
It’s pledge drive time at home station WEFT, which means guest John Anderson and I go a little more freeform than usual, assisted by WEFT station manager Mick Woolf. We spare you the hard-sell pledge pitches, and do get to discuss the Justice Dept’s push to get the Supreme Court to rule on indecency and why it’s so important to understand spectrum when looking at broadcast policy.
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mediageek 2008-02-15: The Push Is On for Net Neutrality
This past week was declared Open Internet Week by a coalition of citizens, public interest groups, tech companies, academics and activists, highlighted by the introduction of the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008†(HR 5353). On this edition of the program we hear excerpts from two nationwide press conference calls outlining why and how Network Neutrality will be pushed to the top of the regulatory and legislative agenda this year. We also hear BitTorrent’s Eric Klinker explain how t
mediageek 2008-02-08: NAB’s FM Spectrum Grab Isn’t about Radio
DIYmedia‘s John Anderson joins again to discuss his further investigation into the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal for the FCC to allow AM stations to have low-power translators on the FM dial. His conculsion: it’s not about radio at all. You’ll have to listen to learn more.
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mediageek 2008-02-01: Grants and Public Broadcasting
Bill Poorman is a seven-year veteran of public broadcasting, having worked as a journalist and news director in both radio and television. Even though he contends that public broadcasting still produces the best broadcast journalism in the US, he has a critique that stems from the system’s reliance on corporate dollars and grants. On this edition of mediageek, Bill tells us more about why the grant-driven nature of public broadcasting concerns him.
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mediageek 2008-01-18: Canada’s Regulator Tackles Media Ownership
This week is a big news wrap-up, first looking at a new regulation aimed at controlling media ownership concentration in Canada. Then I review what’s at stake with the internet and net neutrality in 2008, which I think is going to be a big year in determining the future of independent media and communication on the internet.
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mediageek 2008-01-11: A Business Model to Save the Internet and Journalism?
Wally Bowen is the Executive Director of the Mountain Area Information Network, a non-profit which has provided internet and information services to Western North Carolina for more than a decade. He believes that a non-commerical alternative to the enormous commercial DSL and cable modem duopolies in most communities is absolutely essential for guaranteeing the future freedom of the internet. In this week’s program Wally tell us more about MAIN and why nonprofit information services are so impor
mediageek 2008-01-04: Documentary Covers the People’s Assembly in Oaxaca
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad/A Little Bit of So Much Truth is a new documentary covering the people’s uprising in Oaxaca in 2006, focusing on the APPO’s use of media. Jill Friedberg is the filmmaker behind Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad and she tells us more about the film and what she saw happen in Oaxaca.
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mediageek 2007-12-28: Highlights from 2007
On this edition, the last for 2007, we listen to some highlights from 2007 that have continuing relevancy going into 2008. First, we listen to an excerpt of a talk by Google’s Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf, who talks about the origin of the basic architecture of the internet, highlighting the importance of end-to-end neutrality. Then we hear from Maria Juliana Byck of Paper Tiger TV, who discusses the 25th anniversary of this pioneering public access TV production organization, spearheading rad
mediageek 2007-12-21: Year-End Review, pt. 2 – Unlicensed Radio
John Anderson joins again for part 2 of our year-end review. First we tackle the FCC’s decision to all-but-eliminate the cross-ownership rule. Then John updates us on all of the FCC’s enforcement actions against unlicensed stations in 2007.
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mediageek 2007-12-14: Year-End Wrap-Up pt. 1
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins for the 5th anniversary year-end wrap-up, now expanded to two parts. On this edition we discuss the upcoming Dec. 18 FCC meeting with the virtual end of the newspaper-TV cross-ownership ban on the docket. We also talk about how Chairman Kevin Martin has succeeded in digging himself a Michael Powell-sized hole, alienating both fellow commissioners and lobbyists.
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mediageek 2007-11-07: Anarchy, Integrity and the Digital Marketplace – Interview with Michael W. Dean
Michael W. Dean is the former lead singer of the 90s band Bomb, an author of instructional books, podcaster and is probably most well known for his documentary DIY or Die about independent artists. On this edition Michael discusses the value of being flexible in managing the rights for your work as an independent artist as he expresses in his O’Reilly Digital Media article, Anarchy, Integrity and the Digital Marketplace.
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mediageek 2007-11-30: FCC Makes Good on Some Promises to LPFM
A big news update this week, mostly arising from the FCC’s Nov. 26 meeting where the commissioners voted to strengthen LPFM and wrestled over increasing regulations on cable TV.
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mediageek 2007-11-23: Indigenous Radio
This week we listen to another session from CKUT’s Redefining Media conference, this one is on Indigenous Radio. We hear from Irkar Beljaars, a Metis from Montreal who has been working at CKUT 90.3FM as a journalist and producer of Native Solidarity News (NSN) for about two and a half years, and Stuart Myiow, a representative from the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake.
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mediageek 2007-11-16: Human Rights and Journalism
We listen to excerpts from a panel on Human Rights and Journalism recorded at CKUT’s 20th Anniversary Conference, Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio. We hear from Jooneed Khan, a veteran international affairs reporter and analyst at LaPresse, and Danielle Holyk, a collective member of Siafu Magazine, a Montreal news and culture publication from the bottom up.
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mediageek 2007-11-02: Catching Up on the News
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins again to help catch up on what’s going on with the media ownership rules review, digital “HD” radio and lots of other media news.
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mediageek 2007-10-19: Celebrating 25 Years of Paper Tiger TV
Maria Juliana Byck is my guest to talk about public access television innovator Paper Tiger as the collective celebrates their 25th anniversary with a documentary film called Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger TV.
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mediageek 2007-10-05: Radio Piracy Is Up, FCC Action Is Up, But What’s the Story Behind the Numbers
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins me again to catch up on what the FCC has been up to this year in the world of pirate radio. Enforcement is up, but so is the number of pirates. So what’s the story? John fills us in.
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mediageek 2007-09-28: Bachelor Pad Magazine
Jason Croft is an enthusiast of mid-century culture and music, bringing it to the radio and to the web for more than seven years at his website, Java’s Bachelor Pad. Now Jason is setting out to bring together this grassroots network of fellow hep cats and cool kittens in print, with Bachelor Pad magazine. He tells us more about the culture of mid-century enthusiasts and why he decided to start an independent magazine to cover it.
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mediageek 2007-09-21: Chicago Tells the FCC about Ownership Diversity
On Sept. 20 the FCC held a public hearing on media ownership at the HQ of Rainbow/Push on the South side of Chicago. This hearing focused on the sorry state of minority ownership in media, which is especially bad in Chicago, one of the nation’s largest media markets.
We listen to some testimony from that hearing and then speak with Scott Sanders, from Chicago Media Action, who attended the hearing.
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mediageek 2007-09-14: The MicroPOWER of Radio
On this edition I share some audio from a panel discussion I participated in at the Global Fusion conference, Sept. 6 – 8, sponsored by Southern Illinois University. My co-panelists were John Anderson of DIYmedia.net, Jay Needhman, Professor of Sonic Arts at SIU, and Josh Gumiela, an MFA student at SIU. In the panel we discuss the history of unlicensed radio and some of its potentials.
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mediageek 2007-08-31: Christian Radio on the Way in Ireland
Ireland, like much of Europe, has a very different radio history than the US. Non-state-run radio, whether commercial or community, is only about 20 years old. Now Ireland is about to start licensing religious radio stations, bringing its media landscape a little closer to America’s. Andrew O’Baoill talks about the differences between the US and Ireland radio landscapes and the introduction of religious radio in Ireland.
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mediageek 2007-8-17: Not Enough Public Interest in DTV & AM Stations Trying To Invade the FM Dial
This week it’s a big news update, covering: criticism over the lack of public interest considerations in the FCC’s rulemakings for the transition to digital TV; the Sept. 20 media ownership hearing in Chicago; progress in restoring LPFM; the proposal to allow AM stations to have low-power repeaters on the FM dial.
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mediageek 2007-08-10: Preserving the Past in Media
August 11 was Home Movie Day, dedicated to educating people about the valuable memories and histories contained in celluloid that litters closets, basements and attics. Jimi Jones helped organized Home Movie Day in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he works for the University of Illinois Library as an archivist and media preservationist. We talk about the value of preserving our audio-visual media and how we can do it.
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mediageek 2007-08-03: Brattleboro Community Radio – From Unlicensed to LPFM
An encore edition: My guest for this program is Larry Bloch from Brattleboro, VT Community Radio who shares the story of how that small city started with an unlicensed community station that was shut down by the FCC, and then transitioned to having a licensed low-power station.
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mediageek 2007-07-27: The History and Future of American Journalism
An encore edition: Victor Pickard is the guest to discuss the history of American journalism. He questions the received wisdom that the current commercial news system was inevitable, and talks about why and how we can reform journalism.
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mediageek 2007-07-20: Fruits of the NAB’s Labor on Satellite Radio
The nation’s two satellite radio providers want to merge and the National Association of Broadcasters aren’t happy about it. The NAB is trying obfuscate technical details about the merger, but also filing FOIA requests that may bear some fruit for those of us watching from the sidelines. DIYmedia.net’s John Anderson joins to talk about what all this might mean for the average radio listener.
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mediageek 2007-07-06: Surviving as an Independent Broadband ISP
Volo Wireless Internet provides a unique broadband service to the Champaign-Urbana, IL area, without using phone or cable lines, in competition with some of the biggest telecom companies in the country. Volo’s Peter Folk tells us more about the service, and what it’s like to be an independent ISP competing with the likes of AT&T.
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mediageek 2007-06-29: Webcasters & Record Labels Make Their Case to Congress
Webcasters and recording artists and labels made their respective cases on webcasting royalties to the House Subcommittee on Small Business. We listen to excerpts of the testimony. Then we hear about an interesting new zine project and indepdendent publishing house.
Incidentally, I’m always interested to hear about independent media projects of all types, happening anywhere. If you know of anything that deserves some coverage (even your own project), please send me an email to paul(at)mediageek
mediageek 2006-06-22: Community Radio in India, continued
We listen to more from part 1 of the Rise of Community Radio in India, produced by Jaggi Singh and Emmanuel Madan, this time focusing on some possible pitfalls and the government restrictions placed on this new service. We also hear about a new bill introduced to Congress that would restore low-power FM, possibly paving the way for hundreds of new community stations.
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mediageek 2007-06-15: The Rise of Community Radio in India, Pt. 1
While many of us in North America have had access to community radio for decades, the same has not be true worldwide. India’s government only recently approved licensing community radio stations. In this program we hear an excerpt from part 1 of a series produced by Jaggi Singh and Emmanuel Madan for CKUT in Montreal, exploring the history of community radio in India.
The full program is available for download at the A-Infos Radio Project.
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mediageek 2007-06-01: The lost June 1 episode
Sorry that it’s late, but I’m sure glad it was recovered.
Victor Pickard is the guest to discuss the history of American journalism. He questions the received wisdom that the current commercial news system was inevitable, and talks about why and how we can reform journalism.
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mediageek 2007-06-08: Brattleboro Community Radio – From Unlicensed to LPFM
My guest for this program is Larry Bloch from Brattleboro, VT Community Radio who shares the story of how that small city started with an unlicensed community station that was shut down by the FCC, and then transitioned to having a licensed low-power station.
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Unfortunately, this week’s show is not available due to technical problems. In its place we have an encore edition from January:
On this edition we hear from Brother Los and Rosa Clemente who spoke on the National Conference for Media Reform panel, Make the Music with Your Mouth, Kid: Hip-Hop Activism for Media Accountability.
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mediageek 2007-05-18: Why the Internet Is Vital for Independent Media
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins me again this week for a wide ranging discussion on why the internet has been so vital for independent media, and why we need to protect that vitality with network neutrality.
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mediageek 2007-05-11: Corporate Radio Piracy & Pay-Per-Listen
John Anderson, outgoing producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes and the maven behind DIYmedia.net, joins me again to discuss a couple of radio stories you probably haven’t heard. First, XM Satellite Radio gets caught running pirate radio transmitters. Then, John reveals plans to turn digital broadcast radio into a pay-per-listen medium.
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mediageek 2007-05-04: News Wrap-Up
1 out 6 Londoners choose pirates, Oxaca students seize station for May Day, and HD-DVD gets cracked into song.
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mediageek 2007-04-27: Vint Cerf on the Future of the Internet
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mediageek 2007-04-20: Personal Cinema and Movie Mags in the Age of YouTube
Micro-Film Magazine publisher Jason Pankoke returns to discuss his newest project, a local microcinema ‘zine called C-U Confidential. He shares with us why he’s still enthusiastic about radically independent film and how the local is still an important element.
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mediageek 2007-04-06: Reflecting on 5 Years of Mediageek
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mediageek 2007-03-23: The FCC Approves Digital Radio
The FCC approved digital radio at its March 22 meeting, but not without leaving open questions about public interest obligations of broadcasters now obtaining several new channels, and without even addressing the potential for interference. On this edition we listen to what the FCC commissioners themselves had to say about digital radio, and then we hear from Leigh Robartes, station manager of KRFP in Moscow, ID, to get a community radio perspective on the subject.
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mediageek 2007-03-16: The State of Independent Publishing
The recent closure of a major independent distributors has left many publications with debt while the rise of MySpace provides new competition for zines. The Zine Queen Aj Michel joins me to talk about the state of independent publishing.
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mediageek 2007-03-09: AMARC Broadcasts in Celebration of Int’l Women’s Day
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mediageek 2007-03-02: Wal-Mart America’s Biggest Pirate?
John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins me again to talk about Wal-Mart getting busted by the FCC for running unlicensed satellite transmitters, and about some shifty gameplay between the FCC and NAB to tip the scales at the last hearing on media ownership.
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mediageek 2007-02-16: FCC Making Some Exceptions on LPFM
Recently the FCC has made two unusual exceptions in offering low-power FM broadcasting licenses. One was even to a former pirate. DIYmedia‘s John Anderson helps fill in the details.
Want more info on the stuff we talked about? Check out the show notes: http://www.mediageek.net/?p=1518
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mediageek 2007-02-09: Indepedent Journalism Under Attack
Josh Wolf is an independent journalist and blogger who is behind bars for contempt of court, and now he is the longest-incarcerated journalist in modern US history. We’ll hear excerpts from a press conference held in support of him. Paul also takes a look at President Bush’s predictable move to cut public broadcasting funding.
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mediageek 2007-02-02: The Future of Public Broadcasting & the FCC Gets a Grilling
On this edition we listen to the last feature from the National Conference for Media Reform, which is two views on the future of public broadcasting. We also listen to an excerpt of the FCC’s visit to the Senate Commerce Committee, where Chairman Martin got a grilling from Senator Diane Feinstein.
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mediageek 1-26-07: Hip-hop activism for media accountability
On this edition we hear from Brother Los and Rosa Clemente who spoke on the National Conference for Media Reform panel, Make the Music with Your Mouth, Kid: Hip-Hop Activism for Media Accountability.
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mediageek 1-19-07: Refuting the Case for Consolidation, Point-by-Point
At the National Conference for Media Reform, a coalition led by Consumers Union, the Consumer Federation of America, Free Press and Rainbow PUSH released a series of research studies investigating the facts behind the big media companies’ claims as to why they need more consolidation to survive. We listen to CU’s Gene Kimmelman, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Free Press’ Derek Turner and CFA’s Dr. Marc Cooper lay out the facts that big media would prefer to ignore.
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mediageek 12-29-06: Two Pioneers of Community Radio
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mediageek 12-22-06: Year-End Wrap-Up
John Anderson joins me once again for our annual year-end wrap-up. This time we discuss the year in radio, including the failure of digital “HD” radio to take off, despite the availability of new receivers.
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mediageek 12-15-06: The Future of Music
Media consolidation, especially in radio, has brought tremendous change to the music business — mostly negative. Now independent musicans are working together to shape the future of our media landscape. Jenny Toomey is the executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, and she tells us more about how radio has changed and how they would like to see it improved.
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mediageek 11-17-06: Telecom Under a Dem Congress
Paul takes a look at the prospects for telecommunications legislation and regulation under a Democratic congress. He also considers the rise of so-called “user created” video on YouTube and Google Video, and what that means for independent media makers.
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mediageek 11-10-06: Update from Oaxaca
The Oaxaca state government has stepped up its offensive agains the popular movement APPO there, now aided by the Mexican federal government. Police have targeted Radio Universidad, the last remaining radio voice of the APPO, along with people involved in the movement. Nancy Davies and George Salzman, two Americans living in Oaxaca, provide us another important update about what’s really happening there, and what’s not being reported in the US mainstream media.
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mediageek 11-3-06: The Continuing Story of WEFT
On this edition we listen to part 2 of my interview with WEFT founding member, Bill Thomas.
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mediageek 10-27-06: One History of Community Radio
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of mediageek home station WEFT, my guest for this program is Bill Thomas, one of the founding members of WEFT, and someone who was at the center of the burgeoning community radio movement in the 1970s. We also listen to the results of the Benton foundation and Social-Science Research Council’s research reports on the effects of consolidated media ownership.
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mediageek 10-6-06: Shortwave Radio in the Internet Age
My guest for this program is Dan Roberts, producer of the weekly Shortwave Report radio program for the last 9 years. We discuss why shortwave radio is still important even while we have thousands of stations available to us over the internet.
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mediageek 9-29-06: The importance of community radio and the challenges it faces
On this edition we listen to some audio from the keynote address at the Northwest Community Radio Conference, held on Sept. 15 – 17. Karen Toering from Reclaim the Media dicusses why community radio is still vitally important, and Lupito Florez from KYRS, Spokane WA talks about threats to that low-power community radio station.
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mediageek 9-22-06: The Negative Effects of Media Consolidation on Women and Minorities
The media watchdog group Free Press just released a research report detailing the rapidly declining rate of broadcast media outlet ownership amongst women and minorities. On this edition we listen to excerpts from a national press briefing featuring the study’s authors, FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, Janet Murguia from the National Council of La Raza and David Honig from the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council.
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mediageek 9-15-06: Radio and Revolution in Oaxaca, Mexico
A popular uprising is happening in that Mexican state, spurred on by a police attack on striking teachers and the diputed national election in July. Radio and television have become important tool’s for the people in their resistance to the neoliberal state and national government. I’m dedicating the entire program to an interview with Nancy Davies and George Salzman, two Americans who have been living in Oaxaca for the last seven years and witnessing the uprising first hand.
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mediageek 9-8-06: The Fight for Network Neutrality Picks Up
Senators have returned to Washington after a month break back in their home districts. Citizens across the country took advantage of that time to rally their elected representatives to support network neutrality. And now the effort steps up in DC as the Senate considers a sweeping telecom bill that doesn’t yet guarantee internet freedom.
Free Press’ Tim Karr fills us in on the details of the effort to save the internet this fall.
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mediageek 9-1-06: American Apparel Threatens Independent Magazine
The fall issue of the radically independent Clamor Magazine has a section taking on American Apparel for its anti-union record, charges of sexual harassment by former employees, and advertising criticized for objectifying women. And while many of these charges have already appeared in the press, American Apparel, which made $120 million last year, has decided to threaten Clamor, whose entire annual budget is $150,000, with a lawsuit over their reporting.
In this edition of the program Jen Angel
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mediageek 8-18-06: The Exploitation of Translators
John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes is back in the studio to discuss his latest research on FM translator stations, also known as repeaters. It looks like hundreds of thousands of dollars has been made by one Christian radio group by trafficking in free licenses for these stations, and several new Christian radio networks have been set up by groups that bought piles of licenses. Also, the National Association of Broadcasters is making a sneaky bid to get some FM spectrum
mediageek 8-11-06: Home Movie Day
Home Movie Day is dedicated to the preservation of home movies on film for future generations, not just by transferring them to video, but by making sure the film itself survives. Jimi Jones is one of the organizers behind the Home Movie Day event in Urbana, IL, and he tells us more about why home movies are important, and what we can do to keep them safe.
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mediageek 8-4-06: Big News Wrap-Up
This week Paul catches up on the big media news items, including the continuing battle over network neutrality and members of the House calling on the FCC to be more open in its media ownership rules review.
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mediageek 7-28-06: Making Sense of Camcorders
If you want to get out there and shoot some video, you need a camcorder. But what features do you really need? And is it worth it to go high definition? Video writer Richard Baguley helps sort it all out, and tells us about the newest generation of inexpensive HD camcorders that will soon hit the shelves.
Paul also gives the lowdown on the FCC’s newly opened review of media ownership rules, including how you can send the FCC your comments on the issue.
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mediageek 5-19-06: Bringing Radio Transmitters to Indigenous People in Central America; Musicians Speak Out To Save the Internet
The guests for this program are Bill Taylor and Adrienne Bauer from the Primary Communications Project, which works to bring communications technology to indigenous communities in Centarl America. Bill and Adrienne recently returned from Honduras where they are working with Radio Lenca and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras to build a 1000-watt AM radio transmitter to serve the Lenca people.
In the second half of the program we hear from Rep. Edward Markey and
mediageek 5-12-06: Yes Men Put One Over on Halliburton and Disaster Profiteers
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mediageek 5-5-06: Internet Free Speech Advances, Under the Hood of Podcasting
A big news update this week as the House stalls on telecomm legislation and pressure grows to get Congress to preserve free speech on the internet. Paul also takes a look under the hood at podcasting — is it really just a fancy word for downloading mp3s?
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mediageek 4-7-06: Corporate PR Pushes Fake News, and the Importance of True Grassroots Journalism
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mediageek 3-10-06: The Reconstruction of a Meaner Ma Bell
The announcement that AT&T intends to acquire BellSouth dropped like a bomb last week, and has left public interest and consumers groups worried that the end result will be increased rates, lowered competition and new restrictions on internet service. But the new AT&T is really SBC, and what’s being left out of most press accounts of the merger is that SBC has a record of jacking up rates and defunding customer service after a merger.
On this edition of mediageek Paul reviews SBC’s past, and lo
mediageek 3-3-06: Congress Mulls Cable & Internet Legislation
On this edition Paul reflects on the 4th anniversary of the radioshow and catches up on the news, including stories about NAB’s week-long intense lobbying campaign in DC, and the House Energy Commerce Committee’s chances for tackling different telecomm issues this year.
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mediageek 2-17-06: HD Radio — Is It Really High-Definition or a High-Dollar Scam?
Digital radio has been slowly creeping onto the US airwaves for the last nine years or so. Recently, expensive receivers bearing the marking “HD Radio” have started appearing on the shelves in an obvious attempt to associate digital radio with high-definition digital TV. But is HD radio all it’s cracked up to be?
John Anderson, of DIYMedia and Free Press’ Media Minutes, has been working on a year-long research project on HD Radio. On this edition of mediageek he tells us how HD Radio is not exa
mediageek 1-27-06: Senate Hearing on the Broadcast Flag
On Jan. 24 the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the Broadcast Flag, a technology that the entertainment industry wants to impose on digital broadcasts in order to restrict our ability to record and use broadcast programming. Jeff Nicholson-Owens from WEFT’s Digital Citizen program joins Paul to listen to excerpts of testimony from the hearing, and to discuss what the implications of the Flag are for our rights and for democracy.
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mediageek 1-20-06: Public broadcasting, podcasting and the internet
This week’s guest is Jack Brighton, who is in charge of internet operations for public broadcaster WILL-AM-FM-TV in Champaign, IL. WILL embraced streaming its radio programs back in 1998 and quickly began podcasting its locally produced programs after podcasting became a standard technology. Jack is passionate about the role of public broadcasting in a democracy, and sees the internet as part of this obligation. He discusses WILL’s internet strategy, and also talks about how some parties in the
mediageek 1-13-05: Leaving Corporate TV News for Independent Film Making
Guest Ken Schreiner used to be news director at Nexstar’s Champaign, IL CBS affiliate station, WCIA-TV, but he left the TV news business to pursue independent filmmaking. In this interview we talk about why he left the business, and he tells us more about his most recent film, which he debuted on his website, Our Other Neighbors. Ken also tells more about Nexstar’s business practices as a growing owner of TV stations in mid-sized markets.
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mediageek 12-30-05: Commercial Sponsorhip of Clear Channel’s Madison Newsroom
John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes is kind enough to join me again this week to discuss the recent naming rights that Amcore bank bought for a Madison radio newsroom. John used to be a radio news anchor in Madison, and nearly worked for Clear Channel’s WIBA-AM, the station with the sponsored newsroom. He fills us in on the details of this situation, and we also discuss how Iowa Citizens for Better Local TV are challenging the license of a Sinclair-owned TV station in tha
mediageek 12-9-05: The Year in Grassroots Communication
The guest for this edition is John Anderson, producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes and the mind behind DIYmedia.net. We do our annual year in review of what’s happening in the world of media policy, the FCC and unlicensed radio. Amongst the topics we discussed are the FCC’s inaction with regard to a request made by ham radio operators to review Florida’s anti-pirate radio law and the Republican vacancies at the FCC.
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mediageek 11-25-05 supplement: More on Pirate Radio USA
I couldn’t fit all of my interview with DJ Her and DJ Him into the Nov. 25, 2005 edition of the radioshow. So here is the rest of the interview, where we talk more in depth about the making of their documentary film, Pirate Radio USA.
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mediageek 11-18-05: FCC Harasses Free Radio Station Serving the People of New Orleans
An unlicensed community radio station has been serving the devastated Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans since just a few days after hurricane Katrina. The station has been providing much needed information to residents who stayed or are returning to an area that still has few services. Recently, the FCC visited the station, causing volunteers to shut it down.
In this interview Free Radio Santa Cruz’s V-Man talks to one of the volunteer who sheds light on the real situation in New Orleans.
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mediageek 11-11-05 supplement: More with WFMU Manager Ken Freeman
I really enjoyed talking with Ken Freeman, station manager of the great freeform community station WFMU. Our conversation lasted more than a half hour, but there’s only time for half of it during the show. So I decided to make the other half available for download/podcat.
This part of the conversation is a bit more radio geeky. We talk about how WFMU is programmed, and Ken’s philosophy on shifting the schedule around, and asking programmers to take sabbaticals every so often to freshen things u
mediageek 11-4-05 mp3: What’s In Store for Telecom and Media in 2006
On Oct. 31 the FCC approved the mergers of SBC with AT&T and Verizon with MCI. Some of the issues that cropped up with these mergers are also on the table for a massive rewrite of telecommunications law with the upcoming Telecommunications Act of 2006. Marc Cooper of the Consumers Federation tells us more about what we can expect, and what we should look out for.
We’ll also hear an encore of an interview with Aaron Glantz, an independent, unembedded reporter who filed reports for Pacifica radio
mediageek 10-28-05 podcast: What About Low-Power AM?
Don Schellhardt is one member of a coalition that has proposed to the FCC that it create a low-power AM radio service. The Commission has decided to open up public comments on the idea, and Don tells us more on what low-power AM radio might sound like.
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mediageek 10-21-05 podcast: Consumers Union Says “Hear Us Now” on Telecomm & Media Policy
The Consumers Union has put together the website HearUsNow.org to help consumers get educated about the issues affecting their communications environment, and then get active in making positive change. Morgan Jindrich is the director of this effort, and she tells us more about CU’s efforts to improve policy and its current campaign to get the FCC to hold ten public hearings on media ownership before it rewrites the rules again.
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mediageek 10-17-05 podcast: What Happens to Our Media and Communications Environment Inside the Beltway
Victor Pickard is our guest to talk about how media and telecommunications legislation gets hashed out in Washington, and how the lobbyists are completely embedded inside the halls and offices of Congress. This past summer Victor worked as a telecommunications policy fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson. He is is a doctoral student in the Institute of Communications Research at the U of I, and a policy fellow for the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research.
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mediageek 10-7-05 podcast:The Decline of Commercial Broadcast Journalism and the Rise of PR
John Anderson and Laura Miller join Paul in the studio to talk about the state of journalism in the electronic media. Prior to becoming producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes, John worked in commercial radio news — his last job was morning anchor for the Wisconsin Radio Network. John talks about how he watched radio news get defunded and shrunk under the pressure of consolidation. Laura is the editor of investigative journal PR Watch, published by the Center for Media and Democracy. She talks abo
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mediageek 9-23-05 podcast: Your Limited Rights with On-line Music Services
On this edition, the customer is always wrong, how Congress might starve public access TV, and a station for Katrina evacuees goes off the air. Jeff Nicholson-Owens, from WEFT's Digital Citizen, talks to Electronic Frontier Foundation�s Fred Von Lohmann about what music downloading services like iTunes are doing to limit your rights to the music you buy. And we�ll catch up with the other stories in mediageek news headlines.
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mediageek 9-16-05 podcast: The DIY Scene in Portland, OR
Shawn Granton is an independent publisher and comics artist from Portland, OR. He's currently on a DIY tour across the country giving comics workshops and showing independent videos documenting Portland's thriving and creative bicycling scene. He talks about these videos, and the strong do-it-yourself ethic that pervades Portland.
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mediageek 9-9-05 podcast: Microradio in Times of Crisis
John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press' Media Minutes joins Paul to discuss Houston authorities silencing an legal low-power FM station intended to broadcast information to hurricane Katrina evacuees housed in the Astrodome. John also catches us up with what's going on with unlicensed micropower stations.
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mediageek 9-2-05 podcast: Coping as an Independent Reporter in Iraq
This week Paul plays the second part of his interview with independent reporter Aaron Glantz, who worked unembedded in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He tells us how he coped with seeing the horrors around him, and how he ended up in Iraq to begin with.
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mediageek 8-26-05 podcast: An Independent Reporter in Iraq; An Interview with Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz was an unembedded reporter in Iraq for Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News after the fall of Saddam. During his time there he saw a side of the country, the people and the war that was missed by most mainstream journalists who were largely confined to their hotels, and only ventured out accompanied by armed guards.
Glantz shares his experiences and his view on the American occupation in his new book, How America Lost Iraq. Paul interviewed Glantz during a stop on his DIY book tour.
mediageek 8-19-05 podcast: Big News Wrap-up – What’s Up at the FCC, Telecomm Mergers Under the Radar, Canadian Media Labor Lockout & more
Paul catches up with a boatload of media news, including what's going on at the FCC with media ownership and indecency, a look at some simmering telecomm mergers and more.
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mediageek 8-12-05 download: Lying Media Bastards — Interview with Blogger & Podcaster Jake Sexton
Jake Sexton is a fiercely independent blogger and podcaster who takes the mainstream media to taske every day on his blog, and every week on his radioshow. As part of our effort to talk to regular folks busy making their own media, Paul interviews Jake about his projects, and about the state of media in Jake's hometown of San Diego, CA.
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mediageek 8-5-05 podcast: Big News Wrap-Up – FBI Releases IMC Server Seizure Docs, FCC OKs Calvary Chapel LPFMs, Waiting for New FCC Commissioners…
Paul catches up with the news of our media environment, including the recent release of documents relating to the US government's seizure of Indymedia servers last year and the FCC's approval of LPFM licenses for Calvary Chapel churches.
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mediageek 7-22-05 podcast: Making Podcasting Easier for the Masses and the FCC Busts Free Radio San Diego
This is a fixed version of the podcast, which you may want to re-download due to the feature interview being muted in the first version. My apologies for the problem.
Odeo is a new web-based podcasting application that allows users to easily find and listen to podcasts, as well as produce their own audio, just using a browser. Paul talks to Evan Henshaw-Plath, a developer for Odeo, about this new web service and its implications for more democratic media production.
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mediageek 7-29-05 podcast: Podcasting, Indymedia and Innovation
This week we continue our conversation with Evan Henshaw-Plath, a developer for the on-line podcasting application Odeo.com. Evan has an extensive independent media resume, and we talk about the relationship between podcasting and independent media, and the role of innovation.
We also listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey, who discusses his documentary on pirate radio in Tuscon, AZ, Making Waves.
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mediageek 7-15-05 podcast: The Yes Men and Identity Correction
On this encore edition, Drew talks to Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men, a group of identity correctors, who last year appeared on BBC TV as representatives of Dow chemical, in order to claim full responsibility for the Bhophal disaster 20 years ago. They discuss the intersection of art and activism, and the inspirations for the Yes Men's brand of protest.
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mediageek 7-8-05 podcast: What’s up in the Micropower Radio Scene
On this week's program John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins us to catch up with what's going on with unlicensed micropower radio. Paul talks to a former micropower broadcaster from South Florida who fills us in on the active unlicensed radio scene there, where recently two broadcasters were arrested under Florida's new state law that criminalizes pirate radio.
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mediageek 7-1-05: The Roots of Radical Media in Detroit, Part 2
We hear from Abayomi Azikiwe, who is the founder and editor of the Pan-African Newswire, and is also the co-host of the Fighting for Justice Radio Program on AM 1200 WCHB and the special weekly commentator on CKLN FM 88.1 in Toronto. This talk was part of the session on Radical Media in Detroit held at the 2005 Allied Media Conference.
We also catch up on news of the FCC’s inactivity on indecency and the Supreme Court decisions on file sharing and cable modems.
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mediageek 6-24-05: The Roots of Radical Media in Detroit
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We listen to Charles Simmons, a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, discuss the roots of radical media in Detroit's African-American community. This talk was recorded on June 19, 2005 at the Allied Media Conference.
We also catch up with the FCC crackdown on Berkeley Liberation Radio and radio free brattleboro, as well as the latest on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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mediageek 6-17-05 podcast: Jason Scott on his new dvd set “BBS: the Documentary”
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We talk to Jason Scott, creator of textfiles.com and the director of a new documentary about his passion for BBSs. We hear about what it takes to make a one man film with modern equipment. We also discuss the Supreme Court's refusal to hear arguments about the FCC's proposed relaxation of ownership restrictions.
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mediageek 6-10-05 podcast: Urban Youth doing Music Production and Internet Radio
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mediageek 6-3-05 podcast: openairwaves.org, radical media, and US government propaganda
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mediageek 5-27-05 podcast: Marc Cooper on Media Reform Victories; Clear Channel Co-Opts Pirate Rhetoric
On this edition we listen to Marc Cooper’s talk from the opening plenary of the 2005 National Conference for Media Reform. Cooper is director of research for the Consumer Federation of America.
We also discuss Clear Channel’s lame attempt at guerilla marketing using pirate radio.
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mediageek 5-20-05 podcast: Grassroots Labor Media in South Korea
We listen to a talk by Myoungjoon Kim of MediACT in S. Korea about the state of laborers media and media reform in that country. This talk was given during a session on globalizing media reform at the 2005 National Conference for Media Reform.
We also discuss right-wing attacks on the Newspaper Guild’s Linda Foley for comments she made at the conference regarding military attacks on journalists.
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mediageek 5-13-05 podcast: Live from the National Conference for Media Reform
Paul and Drew report live on May 13 from the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, MO. We also play some clips from Amy Gooodman and Naomi Klein recorded at the Media Consolidation Conference held May 10 & 11 at the University of Illinois.
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mediageek 5-6-05 podcast: Open Source Independent Radio Distribution – Shawn Ewald of the A-Infos Radio Project
We interview Shawn Ewald, programmer and voluWe interview Shawn Ewald, programmer and volunteer behind the A-Infos Radio Project. The project has been serving an archive of independently produced and shared radio programming since 1996 -- before most of the world had heard of "mp3." Ewald recently opened up the source of the softward that runs the Project so that others may also use or improve it.
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mediageek 4-29-05 podcast: John Downing on Radical Participatory Media
John Downing is Professor of International Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is known for his work on media and race and ethnicity as well as examinations of radical media. He spoke to the Participatory Media Reading Group at the University of Illinois on April 22, 2005. In this talk he shares his background and interest in radical media, and lays out four areas that deserve more study, including indigenous peoples’ movements and Indymedia.
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mediageek 4-22-05 podcast: Pushing for Public Access
Our guest is Randall Cotton, an area activist who is part of a advisory committee exploring options for expanding public access TV in Champaign-Urbana, IL. We discuss the state of public access in this area and power cities have to negotiate better terms and access from cable companies.
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mediageek 4-15-05 podcast: RNC Protestors Vindicated by Video; RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2; More Indecency Rumblings from DC
http://mediageek.net/sound/2005/mg041505-64k.mp3Paul and Drew get caught up with the media news, including stories about RNC protestors vindicated by indie video, RIAA crackdowns on Internet2 and more DC dishing on indecency. We’ll also look back to Sept. 2004 to hear the experiences of one IMC reporter who was arrested at the RNC in New York last year.
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mediageek 4-08-05 podcast: Robert McChesney Discusses Media Reform and Independent Media
Media scholar and activist Robert McChesney joins Drew in the studio, along with our friend John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes. They discuss the state of the media reform movement, the upcoming National Conference for Media Reform, and McChesney’s two most recent books.
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mediageek 4-1-05 podcast: Bizzarro Paul and Bizzarro Drew Take Over
Some strange force takes over the show, resulting in Bizzarro Paul and Bizzarro Drew doing a new version of the mediageek radio show. Luckily normal Paul and Drew kick them out before the end of the show.
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mediageek 3-25-05 podcast: Free Radio Workshops on Tour
On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering a four-day workshop on building and operating unlicensed low-power FM transmitters. The camps will be going on tour this Spring to Madison, WI, and several other locations in the US and Latin America. Dunifer also tells us about FRB’s recent foray into unlicensed TV broadcasting.
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mediageek 3-18-05 podcast: Harold Feld of MAP Explains Christian Radio Translator Trafficking Scheme
Harold Feld of the Media Access Project gives us the skinny on a petition by Prometheus and other media reform groups to the FCC demanding a freeze on noncommercial FM translator stations applications in order to halt what they see as a trafficking scam. And, coincidentally, the FCC does it, but as part of a LPFM strengthening effort.
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mediageek 3-11-05 podcast: What’s Wikinews? Interview with Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Paul interviews Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales about that foundation’s newest project, Wikinews. We also have an update on the Edgewater/Radio Assist Ministries translator scandal.
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mediageek 3-4-05 podcast: Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations
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mediageek 2-25-05 podcast: Broadcast Flag and File Sharing, Tightening Media Ownership Loopholes, Challenging Indecency Rules
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mediageek 2-18-05 podcast: LPFM and LPAM, with or without the Law
John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and producer of Free Press’ Media Minutes joins Drew in the studio to discuss revamped LPFM bills aimed at restoring all originally intended frequencies for non-profit use. They also talk about new antenna and transmitter technology for part 15 (or not) LPAM broadcasting.
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mediageek 2-11-05 podcast: The Myth and Reality of Virtual Reality
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mediageek 2-4-05 podcast: The Pre-History of the Internet – BBS Documentary
Our guest is Jason Scott, the curator behind textfiles.com, an enormous repository of text from electronic bulletin board systems and the pre-web internet, and the filmmaker behind the forthcoming BBS Documentary.
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mediageek 1-28-05: Former Fox TV Reporters Challenge Tampa Station License
We talk to investigative reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson. They were fired from FOX TV 13 in Tampa, FL for blowing the whistle on the station, which tried to bury and change facts on a story on bovine growth hormone (BGH) after being contacted by Monsanto.
Akre and Wilson are challening the station’s license with the FCC, which is up for renewal. They say the station aired known lies about BGH, and therefore failed to act in the public interest.
We also discuss the latest news from the FCC a
mediageek 1-21-05 podcast: Powell to Leave FCC & the 5th Birthday Party for Low-Power FM
We discuss the news of FCC Chairman Powell’s decision to leave the FCC. Then we talk to Hannah Sassaman from the Prometheus Radio Project about the upcoming celebration at the FCC of LPFM’s 5th birthday.
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mediageek 1-14-05 podcast: The 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon
We talk with Karen D’Andrea, producer for the 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon, which airs Feb. 14 – 15.
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mediageek 1-7-05 podcast: Indecency and Broadcasters’ Accountability
I’m doing the radioshow downloads differently as an experiment. I’m separating one file specifically for the podcast feed, and putting the other download and streaming files into separate posts.
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mediageek 12-31-04: 2004 Year in Review with John Anderson
John Anderson joins us for our 3rd annual year-end wrap-up. John is the producer of Media Minutes, a weekly five-minute media news program from the media reform organization Free Press, and the webmaster behind DIYmedia.net.
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mediageek 12-24-04: the Yes Men
Drew talks to Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men, a group of identity correctors, who recently appeared on BBC TV as representatives of Dow chemical, in order to claim full responsibility for the Bhophal disaster 20 years ago. They discuss the intersection of art and activism, and the inspirations for the Yes Men’s brand of protest.
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mediageek 12-17-04: Community Radio in Ireland
Andrew O’Baoill is our guest to discuss the young community and college radio movement in Ireland. Andrew is a PhD. student at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and in the mid-90s he helped to put on the air one of the first college/community radio stations in Ireland, Flirt FM at the University of Galway.
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mediageek 12-10-04: Low-power FM in Moscow, Idaho
On this edition, we talk to Leigh Robartes, chairman of the board of directors for Radio Free Moscow, KRFP, Moscow Idaho. Robartes is a veteran independent reporter and one of the founding members of Free Speech Radio News. We discuss the media scene in the Moscow area, and the need for community radio in smaller communities.
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mediageek 12-3-04: Indymedia Turns Five
Paul and Drew discuss the five-year anniversary of Indymedia, coincident with the five-year anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. We listen to comments made in Dec. 1999 by former WEFT-airshifter and Urbana-Champaign IMC founding member Peter Miller about the original IMC after returning from the protests.
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mediageek 11-26-04: The Challenges Facing Independent Movie Theaters
On this edition Paul talks to Colleen Cook, co-manager of Boardman’s Art Theater in Champaign, IL. They discuss the importance of independent cinema and the challenges facing independent theaters as they get squeezed by the big multiplexes.
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mediageek 11-19-04: Urbana Public TV Closer to Democracy Now; Last Minute Congressional Moves
Drew brings us audio from the Nov. 19 meeting of the Urbana Public TV Commission, wherein they approved policy changes paving the way for the channel to air series programming and accept the donation of satellite receiving equipment. We also discuss some recent Congressional action, including the surprise renomination of Jonathan Adelstein to the FCC.
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Making Waves in Tuscon, Arizona – Interview with Documentarian Michael Lahey
On this edition Paul talks with Michael Lahey, the documentarian behind Making Waves, which follows the travails of three unlicensed radio stations in Tuscon, AZ, and is one of the best treatments of the micropower/pirate radio phenomenon. We also take a critical look at the news of our communications environment.
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Building Mini-FM Transmitters for Art and What the Election May Mean for our Media Environment
On this edition we feature interviews with people making transmitters and the sounds of radio-art performance from the Radio Access Democracy conference. We also discuss what changes the recent election will bring to the FCC and media reform and policy issues.
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