Author: Paul

In case you missed it, the Urbana-Champaign (IL) Independent Media Center website is now on-line and ready for your interaction. As you’ll read on the site, the U-C IMC has leased a storefront in Downtown Urbana to house its operations and to be a sort of high-tech media community center. If you live anywhere in…

Radio Free Conscience will be relocating soon to a new domain. I want to consolidate RFC’s grassroots media emphasis with information and articles on grassroots media, (diy) electronics, culture jamming and other related stuff. The new domain is mediageek.org, because I am a certifiable media geek, and will be the new host as of Mon.…

The music industry from a musician’s standpoint: Rock and Rap Confidential has put up a page asking the question Why Do We Need the Music Industry?” My answer: we don’t, except for the fact that not everyone can download music from the Internet and the big box CD stores won’t carry anything that doesn’t come…

Looking to jumpstart the snail-like pace of Digitial / Hi-Definition TV, USA Today reports that the FCC is likely to begin requiring TV manufacturers to put digital receivers in their sets. The electronics industry complains that this will add $1000 to the cost of a TV, while Sinclair broadcasting counters that once production ramps up…

This is some astonishing news: According to an article posted to the Rocky Mountain IMC site, Free Speech TV, a progressive public-access and satellite based TV network will not be carried on the cable system’s access channel in its home town of Boulder, CO, even though they can provide a free satellite receiver to the…

Partytown Radio has established a Corporate Media Portal, with links to sites, information and article about the corporate media, with particular attention paid to issues regarding Low-Power FM. The whole Partytown site has grown quite a bit in the last few months, from just having a live streaming radio station. They’ve even included a stream…

More on the new likely head of the FCC, Michael Powell: A Wired News story says that Powell “told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show that the FCC should take a back seat to industry and Congress in monitoring the market. Or does he mean that the FCC should take it in the back…

More mainstream press coverage of the WBAI fracas. This time it’s a column in New York Newsday titled “Why WBAI Should Be ‘Left’ Alone by Pacifica.”

Today’s show — a year-end wrap up with guest John Anderson of the Pirate/Free Radio Page at About.com — is now available for listening on-line. It requires Real Player to listen.Click here to listen to this week’s show.

The New York Times reports on Saturday’s protest against Pacifica outside the studios of NYC station WBAI. “A few hundred” protestors showed up to speak out against what has been called the “Christmas Coup” at WBAI, where Pacifica management fired the station’s manager, program director, and other staff, with no formal statement of reason. For…