Month: July 2000

The Philadelphia Indepdendent Media Center and Free Speech TV are both running independent coverage of the Republican Convention in Philadelphia. The IMC has a radio broadcast, and FSTV has a live TV broacast on the Dish network and via RealVideo. Every morning the Pacifica radio program Democracy Now will be simulcast on FSTV. Expect to…

I got another letter from Sen. Peter Fitzgerald regarding low-power FM. As I noted before (see entry for 5/27 below), I was befuddled to find out that he signed on to support the Senate bill to kill LPFM after sending me a non-committal letter that indicated no such thing. So I sent an e-mail to…

The New York Times features an article today reporting that religious groups–especially right-wing and fundamentalist ones–are one of the major applicants for Low-Power FM licenses, comprising around 50%. Of course, the conflict that arises is that these same groups tend to be aligned with Republicans, who are currently leading the way in limiting or killing…