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  • Live on WEFT this Afternoon – 5:30 PM on 90.1 FM, Champaign-Urbana, IL

    I’ll be literally phoning it in to my old haunt WEFT, 90.1 FM in Champaign-Urbana, IL, at 5:30 PM to do a special edition of the mediageek radioshow for their pledge drive. Long time readers/listeners may recall that WEFT is where the radioshow got its start and where it originated until April of this year.…

  • Media Monopoly in Champaign-Urbana?

    Media Monopoly in Champaign-Urbana? Consolidation, Absentee Ownership Both on the Increase by Paul Riismandel and John Wason Originally published in the public i #1, Aug. 2001 Ever wonder why local news coverage on TV actually adds up to only a few minutes a day? Curious why there seems to be little difference between ‘extreme’ rock,…

  • Creating Alternative Media: Examples from Urbana-Champaign

    I’ll be participating in a little session during the lunch break at the Wednesday Media Consolidation conference along with some of my comrades in independent media from the ‘hood. It happens at 12:30 PM in the Krannert Center Lobby, between the session featuring Phil Donahue, John Nichols and Naomi Klein and the one featuring Len…

  • Champaign-Urbana Community Radio on Media Matters this Sunday

    Media Matters is Prof. Robert McChesney’s weekly call-in talk show on our local NPR affiliate, WILL-AM 580. On this Sunday’s show at 1 PM I am one of the guests along with Mike Lehman, the founding force behind our new LPFM station taking to the air in June and a founding member of our local…

  • 5 Urbana-Champaign IMC Reporters Arrested in NYC, 2 Released

    This is an example of how pre-emptive arrests by the NYPD could hit at any moment, even at the most peaceful of marches and actions. Yesterday afternoon five reporters from the U-C IMC were at the War Resisters March, starting at Ground Zero and planned to go to Madison Square Garden for a die-in. Just…

  • Some Press for Radio Free Urbana, an Experiment in Collective Community Radio

    As I’ve mentioned once or twice before, the Urbana-Champaign IMC is working to get a new licensed low-power FM stations off the ground here, called WRFU, or Radio Free Urbana. The license was granted to the Socialist Forum of Champaign County, which is a non-sectarian advocacy organization, largely due to the efforts of Mike Lehman,…

  • National Summit On Community Wireless Happening August in Urbana

    From their press release: The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), Prairienet, and Free Press invite you to join us for a national Community Wireless Networking Summit August 20-22, 2004 in Urbana, IL. “Making the Connection: The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks” will focus on grassroots action, impacting national regulations and policies, and building…

  • Champaign-Urbana’s Community Wireless In the News

    The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network project got a big boost this year when it won a $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute. The project is working to build a decentralized wireless mesh network that leverages lean Unix bootable CD-ROMS that drive nodes made out of otherwise obsolete hardware, like 486 PCs. The guys behind…

  • Review of Champaign-Urbana & Central Illinois Media Ownership On-Line Now

    On the last two Fridays, the mediageek radio show has featured a critical examination of media ownership in Champaign-Urbana and Central Illinois. These two programs are now archived for listening on-line: Part 1, from April 2, features a review of radio and newspaper ownership, including a closer look at the Illini Media Company, the student-run…

  • Urbana Zine Reading, Chicago Self-Publishing Fest

    The tireless Brent Ritzl of Zine Guide fame and the Chicago Self-Publishers Event Council will be heading down to help host another ‘zine reading at the Urbana-Champaign IMC, 218 W. Main St., Urbana, on Saturday, April 17 at 6:30 PM. I think this will be the fourth reading at the IMC that Chicago SPEC has…