Month: January 2002

Small Market Consolidation Broadcasting & Cable reports that the FCC just issued a waiver for TV station duopolies in New Haven, CT and Asheville, NC. A duopoly is where one company owns two properties in a given media market, and are generally prohbited for TV stations by FCC rules. Waivers for the duopoloy rules can…

The Corporate Accountability Project has a really nice annotated compendium of links and resources on media reform on its Media Reform Information Center. I like the logical organization, clean layout and spiffy graph showing the rapidly consolidating oligarchy of media owners.

More Pacifica Movement At this past weekend’s Pacifica National Board meeting the new board majority of reformers made more progress in restoring the progressive radio network as a packed house audience looked on and participated. Amongst the resolutions made during the meeting, the board decided to appoint fired former Pacifica news director Dan Couglin as…

Declan McCullough’s Politech list offers the following warning about the Bush Admin’s scary fight to allow Congress to take works that have lapsed into the public domain and reinstate copyright (via machination.org).

Some Quick Links Blogger was off and on yesterday (mostly off), so I couldn’t publish most of the things I wanted to. But now a day later there’s more in my queue, so I’m just going to put quick links to yesterday’s items w/o my usual enrapturing commentary. On intellectual property: Kuro5hin has an article…

There’s been some activity over on the DIY-Files recently. Check it out.

The New York Times says that Satellite Radio Shows Growth. Maybe I’m wrong in thinking that it costs too much. Or maybe the Times is just rolling along in that usual tech “journalist” hype mode (all cool new technologies are great, until they turn out to be losers. Come to think of it, there is…

Year-end Wrap-up Now On-line Last Sunday’s RFC program, a year-end discussion with John Anderson of About.com’s radio page, is on-line in the Audio Archive.

Corp. Censorship happens in Canada too: Columnist quits paper in Canada’s largest chain over charges of editorial censorship. (via mediachannel.org)

Congress Asking Questions about Copy-Protected CDs CNET reports that Rep. Rick Boucher, Democrat from VA, is asking the recording industry about the legality of making copy protected CDs, in light of the 1992 Home Recording Act which specifically allows consumers to make personal-use copies of music they’ve purchased. The Act stipulates royalties be paid on…