Author: Paul

Duh: Ted Turner Thinks Cable TV Consolidation Is Bad Wired News has this report from the cable TV industry’s annual trade show where during a luncheon talk Ted Turner–formerly of AOL/Time-Warner/Turner–expressed regrets for selling his cable empire to Time-Warner and admitted that consolidation in the cable TV industry is hurting diversity. I think this one…

Low-Power FM Barn-Raiser The Prometheus Radio Project is a group dedicating itself to seeing new noncommercial low-power community FM radio stations get on the air. They’ve been hard work helping groups put in their applications for LPFM licenses and have promised to help get stations constructed for those who receive licenses. One of the first…

More on Pacifica Agreement Current, the public broadcasting journal, reports on the agreement at the embattled Pacifica Network to nominate an interim board of directors to revise the network’s bylaws and (hopefully) reform long standing problems and abuses. A major component of the plan is to bring back more democratic control over the network by…

Happy Birthday Indymedia! Friday, Nov. 23, was the 2nd birthday of the Indymedia revolution. On Nov. 23, 1999, the first Indymedia website went online and received its first post, just days before the streets of Seattle erupted in protest against the meetings of the WTO. The success of the protests and the volunteer citizen-journalists who…

Breakthrough at Pacifica? SavePacifica is reporting that a plan to democratize the embattled Pacifica Network was agreed to by the Pacifica National Board. The plan would turn control over to an interim board made up of five members elected by the current board and five by heads of the five Pacifica Local Advisory Boards. Democracy…

ZDNet has an article that also references FatChuck’s site, and those wacky Brits at the BBC proclaim with alliterative style, “Pirate-proof pop goes public.” The Beeb’s article notes at the end that one of the new copy protected CDs, Natalie Imbruglia’s new album, showed up on file-sharing networks before it was available in stores. That’s…

FatChuck’s is keeping a list of “corrupt CDs” that are made to inhibit your ability to copy them or play them on computers or Playstations (but supposedly play OK on CD players)–via ResearchBuzz. Although I guess some poor schmuck has to find out before you that a CD can’t be ripped or enjoyed on your…

Pacifica, pacifica, pathetica….and public radio As I reported on my program yesterday, the embattled Pacifica radio network continues to hobble through a minefield of controversy, as its management hunkers down to maintain power at all costs–even if that cost is the health of the very network itself. In summary, the most recent news is that…

Radio Free Conscience News I posted a transcript of the news updates portion of my biweekly radio show to the Urbana-Champaign IMC site. Click here to read it.

According to this thread on the Free Radio Network LPFM Grapevine, EBay sent an e-mail to a seller that indicates that it is now prohibiting the sale of low-power FM transmitters on its site. Although when I just did a search for “FM transmitter” moments ago it returned several auctions for equipment useful for micropower…