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  • Mediageek News Headlines from the Dec. 13 Radio Show

    These are the news headlines as read on the mediageek radio show on Friday, Dec. 13, 2002. Stories include: Media Ownership Review News; FCC To Open More Wireless Spectrum?; Int’l Journalists Sound Warning for Italian News Media; Canadian Media Mogul Says Keep Media Canadian You can listen to the entire show on-line on the radio…

  • Tracking Reportage on Media Ownership Rules

    Mediachannel.org has put together a useful News Tracker for coverage of media ownership and the FCC’s upcoming media ownership rules review. Here’s a fun question for research: how many of these articles don’t come from the business section of their respective publications?

  • Competition Is Overrated – FCC Wants Cable Companies To Get Bigger

    USA Today has an article on the FCC’s proposal to allow cable companies to reach as much as 45% of the national cable audience, up from the current limit of 30%. “The increase could spur the formation of more cable giants, such as the recent AT&T-Comcast merger. The new Comcast is the USA’s biggest cable…

  • Tree Sitter Blog

    Wired News reports on efforts to set up an Internet connection to California treesitters so that they can communicate via a weblog to the outside world. This project sounds like one that Anarchogeek has reported on. He’s even got pictures of the treesit network.

  • Berkeley Liberation Radio Raided by FCC

    I just received an e-mail on the IMC-Audio list that says the California unlicensed FM station Berkeley Liberation Radio (BLR) was raided by the FCC this morning “confiscating all equipment (leaving only headphones and microphones). The local Field Office refuses to comment, referring phone calls to the Enforcement Bureau in Washington (which has gone home…

  • Consensus: a Critique and an Answer

    Zoe Mitchell, a media activist (and finishing student), has completed a thesis entitled “A Critique of Consensus Process,” that she has also posted to the DC IMC, where she has been a volunteer. In her introduction she notes that one of her motivations for writing the piece comes from her experiences in consensus processes at…

  • Echostar and Hughes/DirecTV Cancel Merger

    As reported by Wired News and CNet, amongst many, Echostar, which owns the satellite TV Dish Network, has cancelled its plans to acquire Hughes which owns DirecTV. The merger would have consolidated the only two major players in direct-broadcast satellite TV in the US, so its death is a good thing. … However, what is…

  • AM’s Not Dead (and not just for conservative talk)

    The Ionospheric Messenger is an occasional Internet newsletter of the Medium Wave Alliance, covering independent and low-power broadcasting on AM. The newest issue reports independent full-power commercial station, WBZB in the Raliegh, NC area, that has gone to an all local music format. …

  • mediageek news headlines for 12-6-02

    These are the news headlines as read on the mediageek radio show on Friday, Dec. 6, 2002. Stories include: FCC Chair Sets Public Hearing on Media Ownership Regs; New FCC Commissioner; Patents May Threaten Open Web Standards; FCC Reduces Pirate Fine; Don Imus Ranch Gets Visit From FCC; Speedway fined for 1 watt station.

  • Photographer Arrested for Taking Pics of Cheney’s Hotel

    According to 2600, “An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver – for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. Maginnis told his story on Wednesday’s edition of [the radio program] Off The Hook. Maginnis’s morning commute took him past…