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Month: March 2005

  • FBI Persecuting Independent Media Websites Again

    The FBI has demanded server logs of flag.blackened.net which hosts a variety of grassroots anarchist websites, including the valuable Infoshop.org, and Infoshop News. The sysadmin, Dave, is under a gag order preventing him from giving specific details, but explains some of the circumstances in an informal “press release”: I have been ordered to submit IP…

  • Plan Your Trip to Bowling Green (Ohio) — Allied Media Conference Is On for June

    Without a doubt, I have to say that the Allied Media Conference is the one conference that I most look forward to, and I’m glad to see that this year’s is scheduled and getting organized. This year it goes down June 17 – 19, in good old Bowling Green, Ohio, as always. The reason why…

  • Recent Radio Shows Online: Howard Feld on Translator Trafficking; Stephen Dunifer Discusses Free Radio Camp and Unlicensed TV

    The last two mediageek radio shows are both on-line and definitely worth a listen if you’ve been following the FM translator trafficking scandal, or interested in free radio and TV. mediageek 3-25-05: Free Radio Workshops on Tour On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering…

  • FCC Freezes Translator Apps for 6 Months, Begins Proceeding to Expand & Strengthen LPFM

    On Thursday the FCC released a Second Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the low-power FM service, putting forth many important questions for “strengthening” and “expanding” LPFM. Amongst many issues, in this proposed rulemaking the FCC is taking up the nature of the relationship between translator stations and LPFM stations, noting…

  • Say Hello to the New Chair, Same as the Old Chair

    So, by now, if you follow communications news at all, you’ve probably heard that Kevin Martin is the new chair of the FCC. I’m on vacation at the moment, so I couldn’t be right on top of it. After thinking about a potential Martin chairship for a couple of months now, I can summarize my…

  • Prometheus Calls on Translator Trafficking Bluff

    As promised, attorney Harold Feld, representing Prometheus et al, has filed his opposition (download pdf) to Edgewater et al’s motion to dismiss Prometheus’ petition to freeze translator applications (follow that?). Prometheus calls Edgewater’s bluff: Ministries has failed to produce any evidence to rebut the prima facie case, based on publically available documents, that the principles…

  • Gov’t Propaganda on Central Illinois TV

    I’m typically keeping an eye on my local media, especially our local Sinclair-owned station. So I’m a little chagrined that I missed a mention of our CBS affiliate WCIA (“We’re watching you, watching us”) in the recent New York Times article on the proliferation of US Gov’t sponsored PR “news” stories getting aired all over…

  • Alleged Translator Traffickers Volley

    Yesterday the Edgewater Broadcasting / Radio Assist Ministry / World Radio Link triumverate filed a motion (download pdf) to dismiss the Prometheus et al petition to freeze the ongoing issuing of new translator radio station licenses by the FCC. Edgewater et al are three companies owned by the same three individuals. Edgewater and Radio Assist…

  • Preserving the Sounds of Pirate Radio

    In a brief music news piece, the Boulder Daily Camera reports (bugmenot passwd) that 400 hours of shows and “Live at Studio Free” sessions from the departed Boulder Free Radio are going to a new online stations called The Boulder Sound. The article lists the webstream address as http://stream.thebouldersound.com:8501/listen.pls but I got nothing there. The…

  • Prometheus and Friends Petition FCC to Freeze Edgewater/RAM Translator Apps

    John and DIYmedia tipped me off to the petition, filed this past Wednesday, March 9, asking the FCC to freeze the processing of applications for new translators stations, based upon allegations of trafficking, as covered here at mediageek and at DIYmedia. The coalition behind the petition includes the Prometheus Radio Project, REC Networks (which did…