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Month: January 2005

  • Good Bye Mikey, and Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Ass on the Way Out

    The departure of Mikey Powell from the FCC is being largely celebrated by media reform groups. Free Press has a statement from Bob McChesney, who does not mince words in evaluating the Powell Jr’s legacy: “His tenure was marked by some of the lowest moments in the history of the FCC…” Yesterday I raised the…

  • Mikey Powell Leaving FCC

    Looks like good ol’ Mikey Powell is officially leaving his post as FCC Chair, after quite a bit of speculation over the last year. The question, of course, is why?, since the announcement’s too late to be a second term transition. It makes me wonder if some pressure wasn’t put on Powell to step down,…

  • Tuning in to Anti-Inaugural Events

    Courtesy of Amoshaun from the IMC-Audio collective, here’s a list of known live streams of news and information coming out of anti-inaugural activities in DC: Live DC Radio Coop Site: http://dc.indymedia.org/ Stream: http://liveradio.indymedia.org:8003/cpr.ogg.m3u Call-in Number: 202-332-4481 Enemy Combatant Radio is Broadcasting 20th-22nd Site: http://www.enemycombatantradio.net/ Stream: http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/ecr-hi.mp3.m3u Call-in Number: (415) 864-1006 Portland IMC Web Radio Site:…

  • Prometheus to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of LPFM at the FCC

    From a Prometheus e-mail: On the morning of Tuesday, February 8th, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission is inviting Low Power FM radio broadcasters and their allies to attend an important meeting in Washington, DC. We worked hard to establish the service in 2000, and five years later, the FCC wants to see how well these…

  • Boulder Free Radio Gone for Good

    John reports that KBFR’s Monk confirms that the station–busted last week by the FCC–is off the air for the good, and may be mounting a defense in court.

  • Apple = Lomo

    Lomo says: “Don’t think, just shoot.” Apple says: “Random is the New Order.” With the Lomo camera you get: Soviet-era camera with iffy quality control that takes often-blurry pictures with oversaturated color and inaccurate exposure. Lomo calls it: Lomography With the iPod Shuffle you get: a display-less mp3 player that emphasizes playing things at random…

  • MDCasting: Minidisc for Creating AND Playback

    Gerd Stodiek posts a how-to on minidiscasting which focuses on using a Hi-MD recorder for production, rather than simply a device for downloading and listening to ‘casts. He makes a suggestion to use Hi-MD on a podcasting thread at Cyberjournalist, too. Minidisc recorders in general, and Hi-MD recorders in particular, have an advantage for creating…

  • More Publicity for Pirate DJ Johnny Silver

    Last week I posted about DJ Johnny Silver and his Iron Action Radio, about which two highly dramatized short films have been made and posted to the web. His public visibility in home town Nyack, NY has gone up a notch with a local newspaper profile of the man and his station. Frankly, it makes…

  • Boulder Free Radio Shut Down

    As of yet I have scant details, but according to a post on the blog run by KBFR’s founder, Monk, the station was shut down by the FCC on the 11th: The station was shut down, again, yesterday in the late afternoon. One year, to the day (Jan 11th) from the last FCC visit. Apparently…

  • Minidiscasting (or, MDcast)

    Gerd Stodiek has put out the first minidiscast, or MDcast if you will. Of course, in essence, there’s no difference between an MDcast and a podcast — it’s just more of an assertion that you can download podcasts to your NetMD enabled minidisc recorder (connecting to PC by USB) about as easily as you can…