Author: Paul

I just received a reply letter from Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin on LPFM. Since he signed onto the “dear colleague” letter urging his fellow senators to support LPFM, it isn’t surprising that his letter also voices this support. Click here to read the letter.

Wired News reports that NewsWatch.org, one of the better media watchdog sites, has called it quits due to a lack of funding. It amazes and saddens me that $1 million in seed funding is only enough to run a web site of this sort for 2 years. By comparison, a community station like WEFT spends…

The 5th Grassroots Radio Conference will take place in Madison, WI at WORT-FM, July 20-23, 2000. I have never been to a GRC, although I’ve meant to go for years. Madison is close to Champaign, so I hope to drag myself up this time around.

Free Radio Berkeley has planned a Micropower Broadcasting Council of War (for today… which is when I found out) to figure out how to jam and shut down the National Association of Broadcaster’s Radio Convention, set for Sept. 20 – 23, 2000 in San Francisco.

The same day that I found out that Sen. Fitzgerald signed on as a cosponsor to S.2068 I received a written response to my letter I sent him urging him to support LPFM. He says nothing substantial, giving no hint that his intention was to cosponsor th bill that aims to kill LPFM. Click here…

On May 24 11 U.S. Senators released a letter and petition to their colleagues, urging them to support low-power FM, and to oppose S. 2068, which seeks to kill LPFM. These senators are: Kerrey (D-NE), McCain (R-AZ), Durbin (D-IL), Schumer (D-NY), Wellstone (D-MN), Breaux (D-LA), Kohl (D-WI), Rockerfeller (D-WV), Torricelli (D-NJ) and Feingold (D-WI). Click…

According to the U.S. Senate website Illinois’ own Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (r) has signed on as a co-sponsor to the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 (S. 2068), which intends to kill low power broadcasting before it starts. The total number of sponsors is now up to 31, just 20 fewer than needed to pass…

On the next show (5/14 @ 10:00am on WEFT): My guest will be Jason Pankoke, publisher of Micro-Film, an independent ‘zine focusing on truly independent cinema.

I need to send out mad props to fellow WEFT airshifter Jason Pitzl (“Mood Ring” 2-5am Friday), author of his own blog PitzlPrime. Jason works at bringing artists in the greater Champaign-Urbana area together with his C/U Art project.