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Month: July 2005

  • Fight Obsolescence with Pirate TV

    Over at the excellent Stay Free! Daily blog, Jason Torchinsky asks what to do with the millions of analog TV sets when digital TV finally becomes the standard and analog signals go dark in 2009. His suggestion is: [something like] local, indepedent TV stations. Stations with a broadcast range of just, say, Brooklyn or Silverlake…

  • Media Reform Bill Introduced

    According to Radio Currents Online, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) has introduced the Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005 (MORA). According to Hinchey’s press release the bill, “seeks to undo the massive consolidation of the media that has been ongoing for nearly 20 years.” So, it hits most major media reform points: reinstate a national cap…

  • Indy Publishing Weekend in Philly

    Aj at Papercuts gives the rundown of a bunch of independent publishing events coincidentally all going down this weekend, including the Philadelphia Zine Fest and a reading with Al Burian, of the zine Burn Collector and many other projects. Al read at a zine reading here in Urbana a couple of years ago and I…

  • Odeo Open to the Public, Listen to last Friday’s Radioshow There or Here

    Odeo, the web-based popcasting app, portal and site, now has its beta open to the public to help you create, download and listen to podcasts. Last Friday’s radioshow is already on-line and available on the radioshow page, or at Odeo which allows you to listen on-line in addition to downloading it. It was a fun…

  • On Friday’s Radioshow: What’s Up in Micropower Radio & the South Florida Scene

    My pal John from DIYmedia will be my guest to talk about recent activity in unlicensed micropower radio, including the shutdowns of radio free brattleboro and Berkeley Liberation Radio. We’ll also hear a phone interview I did last night from a former microbroadcaster in South Florida who fills us in on the unique situation of…

  • RadioWorld Reports that Florida Anti-Pirate Law Having Minimal Effect

    If it’s true that the Florida pirate bust that I posted about a little while ago is really the first arrest under the new Florida law, then it would seem that the law isn’t having quite the intended effect. Although, according to a RadioWorld report a non-commercial station manager in Boynton Beach says that “The…

  • First Radio Pirates Arrested Under Florida Law

    According to the Sun-Sentinel, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested two men for running two unlicensed radio stations in Ft. Lauderdale. They are charged with state felonies, based on Florida’s anti-pirate-radio law passed last year. Florida is the first and only state with such a law on the books. And by all…

  • First Indigenous Community Radio Station in Argentina

    According to the Inter Press Service News Agency: The first operating licence ever granted by the Argentine government to an indigenous community radio station is being hailed as a major step forward in giving a voice to this sector of the population, while posing formidable challenges. The FM radio station, which has been operating without…

  • No Indecency Fines So Far in 2005

    Yeah, it suprised me, too, especially given how indecency-happy the FCC and Congress got last year. But then I thought about it and realized that I don’t remember seeing one news item about a fine, just gesticulations in Congress. John Dunbar from the Center for Public Integrity–who we interviewed at the NCMR for the June…