Month: November 2000

I missed giving advance notice for this week, but be sure to tune in to WEFT for the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center News Hour. This is a “trial run” weekly program which will air Dec and January on Monday nights at 6:00pm on community radio WEFT, here in Champaign, IL. The program will feature local,…

Yet again, John Anderson, host of pirate/free radio at About.com, has an interesting article–this time about a couple of pioneering microbroadcasters using the ‘net as way to provide true public-access radio. While community radio, where most folks can have access to a real radio studio, provides public access to make media not otherwise seen, it’s…

I’m back from a long Thanksgiving vacation in Colorado and ready to resume posting. I tuned around the radio dial a little bit on my car trip out and while in the Denver metro area. As one might expect, there was quite a bit of country music to be had, along with a lot of…

I must have missed this one, being caught up in the LPFM fight: Current Magazine reports that the Sen. Kent Conrad successfully blocked the passage of a bill that would have put religious broadcasters on par with educational non-profit brodcasters. This would have meant that religious brodcasters would not have to prove the public interest…

Free Politics & Free Media! The Prairie Greens and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center are hosting a benefit concert and teach-in on Sunday Nov. 5th at the Highdive in downtown Champaign (Illiniois). Some of the features include: members of the Poster Children, local folk-hero Paul Kotheimer, newspoetry, as well as short talks on Indpendent Politics,…

Feed Magazine has a short essay on pirate radio. The author contends that pirate radio will not go away if LFPM is killed, and I tend to agree with this viewpoint. In fact, I think radio pirates will only proliferate should Congress succeed in killing LPFM, since the hope of getting a license is probably…

There’s been no word on the status of the appropriations bill with the anti-LPFM rider now as Congress goes into a “lame duck” session, with the Senate postponing further business until after the elections. This may mean that this bill could suffer a pocket veto, should Clinton do nothing on it, or that the outcome…