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Author: Paul

  • Wireless Internet

    News.com is running a weeklong series on Wi-Fi networking, with today’s first article on how cities are implementing wi-fi networks to entice people to be and work in their downtowns. I’ve got wireless at home, and love it. I use a first generation Apple Airport that I bought used and I get good reception throughout…

  • Catching Up On the Radio Show

    OK, so there have been no publicly posted mediageek radio show updates since the new year. This is due both to recording problems at the radio station, digitizing problems at home and my desire to reorganize the radio show page to make it a little easier to navigate — so as not to have 2…

  • Watch Video from Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Radio Competition

    The CSPAN video from today’s hearing is on-line, though I don’t yet have a permalink. This one should work for a while: http://www.cspan.org/VideoArchives.asp?Cat=Issue&Code=MP

  • Guerrilla News

    Video Systems magazine has a nice article on the video production side of the Guerrilla News Network (GNN). It’s good to note that GNN basically operates off of one DV camcorder and two Mac G4s — it doesn’t take much hardware. Of course, it still does take a fair amount of time.

  • Lies and Damn Lies

    A small blip on today’s Associated Press radar: “Clear Channel Defends Size of Company” “WASHINGTON – The head of a major radio company is taking aim at charges that his company engages in anti-competitive behavior. Lowry Mays of Clear Channel Communications told a Senate panel that the competition in the radio industry is “robust.” He…

  • Economist Fawns Over Mikey Powell

    The Economist conducts a brief, but fawning profile of FCC Chair Michael Powell. Their loves stems from the estimation that “Unusually for a regulator, Mr Powell seems to want, gradually, to write the FCC out of the game. For that, he deserves more respect than Americans usually shower on their benighted government officials.” All I…

  • Real Citizens at the FCC? OK, let’s count 1… er, 1….

    The LA Times reports on “Citizens Knocking on FCC’s Door” and actually getting face time with FCC Commissioners “to discuss the arcane rules of national telecommunications policy.” Just seeing the headline made me think, “Yes, this is the way it oughtta be.” But then reading it raised some suspicions. The only real citizen the article…

  • Responding to the Oligopolistic Desires of Local Media Owners

    As promised on the radio show, I now have posted the comments that Nexstar and Sinclair filed with the FCC on the media ownership review docket. Both companies own TV stations in the Champaign-Decatur-Springfield, IL DMA (where the ‘geek is located), in addition to owning stations nationwide. Nexstar owns Champaign CBS affiliate WCIA Ch. 3…

  • Testify! (to the FCC)

    Radio activist extrordinaire Don Shellhardt relays how to submit your testimony to the FCC for the Commission’s public hearing on media ownership to be held in Richmond, VA: As noted elsewhere on this Message, the FCC has just announced Field Hearings in Richmond on whether the FCC should remove the remaining legal limits on how…

  • Senate Commerce Committee to Focus on Media Ownership

    When the FCC appeared in front of the Senate Commerce Committee a couple weeks ago the focus was primarily on telecomm and competition in the phone/Internet biz. But the issue of ownership in the mass media nonetheless got brought up by several Senators and was therefore addressed by the five commissioners. Now, the Commerce Committee…