Month: November 2004
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Hold the Presses — Adelstein Likely To Stay at the FCC
According to Broadcasting and Cable, it looks like Democratic FCC Commissioner Johnathan Adelstein is getting renominated by President Bush for another five year term. After the election the prevailing wisdom was that Adelstein would not be renominated, since his chief sponsor, Sen. Tom Daschle, lost reelection, and because he has been such an outspoken advocate…
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New Jersey Broadcasters Association Threatening Low-Power Radio, Licensed and Unlicensed – But the Real Issue Is Localism
In my old home state of New Jersey, the state broadcasters association is making efforts to knock back licensed LPFM, translators and pirates in the state. Today, Inside Radio reports that the Telecommunications Committee of the New Jersey Assembly has unanimously passed out a bill that would make unlicensed broadcasting a state offense, similar to…
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Hi-MD WAV Converter Test — Looks Good
I finally got a chance to give Sony’s WAV Converter for Hi-MD a shot this weekend, and I’m pleased to say that my limited test results are positive. I recorded audio through the line input on my MZ-NH1 in PCM uncompressed format (CD quality 44.1 Khz), Hi-SP (slightly lower bitrate than normal minidisc compression, about…
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Peer-to-Peer Low-Power AM Broadcasting — Some Interesting Ideas, But Not All That New
Andrew points to the RHZ Amateur Radio Network, which is a participatory experiment aiming to create the possibility of a legal, publicly owned and operated broadcast radio that is built like a peer to peer network. The idea is to use legal unlicensed low-power AM transmitters operating at Part 15 levels — under 100 milliwatts…
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Joining the Podcast Bandwagon
More than a month into this blogosphere phenomenon (which is equivalent to several years in the “real” world), I’ve finally upgraded Moveable Type to the newest version and therefore implemented a podcast of the radioshow. In case this one passed you by, a podcast utilizes the ability to have enclosures in your syndication feed (rss/xml),…
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news headlines from the Nov. 5 radioshow
These are the news headlines as read on the Nov. 5 edition of the radioshow, now available for download. The stories are: Free Radio Santa Cruz Back on the Air; Free Press Challenges Sinclair Licenses; Comments on Localism Filed with FCC Click MORE to read …
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Election Effects: Changes at the FCC
Radio Ink has a rundown of likely changes at the FCC as a result of the election. In summary: Democrat and vocal media reformist Adelstein is out — he won’t be renominated because his chief supporter, Sen Tom Daschle, was not reelected. Kevin Martin is the likely successor to Chairman Powell if he decides to…
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Radio Re-Volt Wrap-Up
This past weekend John from DIYmedia.net and I attended the Radio Access Democracy conference which functioned as the close to the Radio Re-Volt project at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which I mentioned last month. We both participated in two panels: “What’s up at the FCC,” and “Making Alternative Media.” The highlight of the…
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Sony Finally Releases Hi-MD WAV Converter
I’ve had my new MZ-NH1 Hi-MD recorder for a couple of months now, and while I’ve been able to record uncompressed CD-quality audio and upload it to my PC, I haven’t been able to edit it because it’s in Sony’s proprietary file format. Finally, Sony has delivered the software to losslessly convert this format to…
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More Bush, More Republicans, Same Crappy Media Enivronment. But Good for Real Independent Media?
I have no amazing analysis as to why Bush won, or why the Republicans managed to firm up their domination in both houses of Congress. It sucks, but we’ll live. We may even be able to galvanize more opposition. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that four years of the corrupt Bush administration has…