Month: May 2001

As part of their half-hour broadcast today, Free Speech Radio News has a feature segment on the recent FCC indecency fine levied on community radio station KBOO in Portland, OR. Free Speech Radio News is a production of Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship, which is a group of over 40 freelance reporters who formerly worked for…

A quick one… the BBC reports: “A thorn in the side of its powerful neighbour and adversary, Radio Havana Cuba recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.” Noting that Radio Havana tends to air self-congratulatory rhetoric praising Castro and Cuba, while also aiming sharp criticisms on racial and economic inequality at the US, the Beeb also points…

Community Radio Fined for Indecency The Portland Indymedia Center reports that Community radio station KBOO in Portland, OR was fined by the FCC for airing a song the agency judged as indecent during the time of day when indecency is prohibited (between the hours of 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM). Click here to read the…

Blogging as a Form of Journalism? A lot of articles seem to get published recently about the topic of web logs — so-called ‘blogs’ — which the ‘news’ part of mediageek is an example of. I don’t typically post links to them here since there’s a lot of hype, and also because most weblogs–which certainly…

More How-to Advice: The Basics of Digital Video Capture For those not afraid of a little geek-speak, Tom’s Hardware Guide has a nice explanation of the issues you need to take into account when building a computer-based video editing system. In Part 1 they break-down and explain why digitizing video requires so much bandwidth and…

Speaking of Internet Radio… Kill Radio The LA Weekly has a nice feature story on Kill Radio, a free-form Internet radio station in LA that grew out of the LA Indymedia Center’s on-line station that covered the Democratic Convention last Fall, and is the new home for DJs from a defunct pirate station. So much…

BBC To End Shortwave Service to N. America The LA Times reports that the BBC World Service plans to discontinue it’s broadcasts oriented towards N. America, in order to cut costs. Alternately, the BBC plans to rely on its Internet feed and on public stations that carry the World Service to reach the North American…

More on Congressional Forum on Pacifica: John Anderson of the Pirate/Free Radio Page at About.com has a nice report and summary on this forum as his feature for this week. He listened to 2+ hours of testimony so you don’t have to.

Congressional Forum on LPFM and Pacifica Available On-Line It’s available in mp3 format at the A-Info Radio Project. I’ll probably play excerpts from this on Sunday’s show.

Newspapers and Magazines Laying Off Like Mad–A Boon for Indymedia? The NY Times reports that “Newspapers Plan More Cuts as Their Ad Revenues Fall,” with Gannet’s USA Today making its first ever layoff of journalists, along with cutbacks at Knight-Ridder and the NY Times’ parent company. Since newpapers now operate under the same rules as…