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Month: June 2003

  • Hello From Bowling Green

    I’m here at the Allied Media Conference in lovely Bowling Green, OH. It’s been a fun first day of tabling and going to a few sessions. I’ve only been to two — both caucuses for the Indymedia Centers in attendance and on organizing microcinemas. They were both productive, though I wish we could have a…

  • Dutch Radio Pirates Converging on Amsterdam To Protest Crackdown and the Auctioning of Dutch Airwaves

    The title pretty much sums it up. It goes down on Saturday in an event called 100,000 ANTENNAS – FREE RADIO MANIFESTATION. Here’s some background from Indymedia: The Dutch government’s recently implemented Zerobase Radio Frequency Policy is designed to control and regulate free use of the ether by commercial radio stations. On May 23 this…

  • A Minor Rollback – Just for Show?

    Sen. McCain, the chair of the Senate’s Commerce Committee, said he’ll let the committee go forward in considering a piece of legislation that would rollback the FCC’s June 2 decisions on media ownership. Of course, he says he opposes it and wonders if it’ll hold up in the courts. Ya know, he might be right…

  • Indy Journalism Via Blog

    Wired News has a story on a French blogger who posted updated reports about what was really going on in the streets around the G-8, as prostestors and police clashed throughout the weekend. However, I must point out that this is exactly the sort of thing Indymedia has been doing for over three years now…

  • Hear the Sound of Sucking for Yourself

    John at DIYmedia spent the morning recording the audio from the FCC’s fateful media rules meeting and editing it down into choice chunks for our (dis)pleasure. He notes that the debate lasted only about 90 minutes, with the voting taking just a few more. Of course, no amount of debate was going to change the…

  • The New Radio Rules – A Slight Taming

    The FCC just released a rundown of today’s decision. The radio rules have not been subject to the same amount of publicity and public discussion, and have emerged only slightly changed. All the current limits, which allow one company to own up to 8 stations in a large market, with no nationwide limit, remain as…

  • FCC Makes Expected Vote — the Big Media Get Bigger

    I just tuned in to CSPAN, too late to watch the FCC’s fateful meeting, but just after the Commissioners made their expected party-line vote, 3 to 2, to relax most of the media ownership rules in front of them. The national TV ownership cap was raised from 35% to 45%, and the cross-ownership rule, that…