Month: April 2004
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San Francisco Liberation Radio To Challenge the FCC in Court
This coming Friday, April 30, San Francisco Liberation Radio will meet the FCC in court to challenge the Commission’s raid on the station last October. The foundation for SFLR’s challenge is that the station was denied due process, based upon the fact that the FCC never contacted the station or its legal counsel when it…
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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…
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The State of LPFM — Just Putting It On the Air Isn’t Enough
Yesterday Wired News published a short article on the current state of low-power FM. The author attempts to compare reality with the hopes for LPFM, noting that half of the 710 LPFM licenses are for Christian stations featuring “extremely conservative” programming. It’s relatively fine for such a short article, but the author gives the most…
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Amy Goodman Audio Now On-Line
Audio from Amy Goodman’s benefit talk for WEFT last Friday is now on-line, along with the archive of last Friday’s radioshow, on which Ms. Goodman was a guest.
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Post-Amy
I’m glad that I decided to take the afternoon off in order to get the A/V end of things prepared for Amy Goodman’s talk this evening, and my interview with her just before that. Amy arrived around 4:00 PM with two companions, Dennis and Chuck, who are keeping close attention on logistics and details. She…
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Bolivian Students Take Over University
It’s not just Illinois (and I’m sure glad for that) — Rabble at Anarchogeek points out that Bolivian students have taken over their University in La Paz, demanding more educational funding. When students and faculty took over the administration building at the U of I last week in protest of the U’s racists mascot, there…
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Amy Goodman’s Coming to Town
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman is on a 65 city book tour in support of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. My station, community radio WEFT, is hosting her this Friday and so she will also be a guest on this Friday’s radioshow. It seems…
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When Will We See Hi-MD?
In the last couple of months I’ve talked to a number of people looking into buying some portable audio recording equipment, and I’ve recommended to them to wait until Sony’s new minidisc format, Hi-MD arrives, especially since it’s been confirmed that Hi-MD will allow users to upload self-recorded audio from the MD to a PC.…
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U of I Anti-Chief Sit-In To End
The protestors currently occupying the University of Illinois administration building have reached some kind of agreement with university chancellor Nancy Cantor, and are leaving the building. They’re holding a joint press conference at 4:00 PM, and Drew is getting ready to cover it for today’s radioshow at 5:30 PM and possibly for U-C IMC Radio…
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Madison, WI Independent Newspaper to “Throw In the Towel”
A post to the Madison IMC newswire indicates that the last few remaining members of the Madison Insurgent collective intend to quit publishing their newspaper, citing a lack of interested participants and funds. The Insurgent is a monthly independent, collectively-run and non-profit newspaper that’s similar in style to many newspapers put out by IMCs, like…