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  • DJ Johnny Silver Scheduled for Friday’s Radioshow

    After a few weeks of hard policy analysis on the radioshow, it’s time to get back to pirate radio. I’m scheduled tomorrow night to talk to DJ Johnny Silver from Nyack’s Iron Action Radio for broadcast on Friday. It looks like Johnny plans to broadcast the interview live on Iron Action, which also has a…

  • Catch Up on the Radioshow: Broadcast Flag Hearing, Podcasting and Public Broadcasting, Nexstar and the Decline of Local TV

    If you haven’t been tuning in to the mediageek radioshow in the last month, I think you’ve missed some pretty interesting programs. On Jan. 13 my guest was Ken Schreiner, who was formerly news director of Nexstar-owned WCIA-TV in Champaign, IL. Ken held nothing back talking about how Nexstar is defunding its local news operations…

  • So-called HD-Radio, ain’t so HD

    John at DIYmedia has posted a good introduction to what is now being called HD-radio, otherwise known as digital radio, or IBOC (acronym for In-Band On Channel). For the low, low price of about $500 you too can buy a digital radio capable of recieving almost-sorta-kinda-near-CD-quality audio on the FM dial, that the NAB and…

  • mediageek radioshow headlines: Indecency at the Senate; Google Won’t Pay Telcos; Stern Back on FM… Pirate FM

    These are the media news headlines as read on the mediageek radioshow on Jan. 20, 2006: Indecency Day at the Senate Commerce Committee; Consumer Groups Prefer A La Carte; Google Says It Won’t Pay Telcos for Consumer Bandwidth; Stern Gets Pirated. Indecency Day at the Senate Commerce Committee Decency, and indecency was the big topic…

  • Podcasting and the Revitalization of Radio

    Radio has been declared dead many times, especially with the rise of the internet. When streaming audio became practical in the late 90s it was often declared that every person with a ‘net connection would have her own station. The birth of satellite radio, with hundreds of channels of narrowcasted nationwide channels, brought more exclamations.…

  • Pirate Shortwave DXing Can Be Fun, too

    In the spirit of last week’s post about broadcast radio DXing, Ragnar’s Pirates Week podcast from Dec. 27 features 45 minutes of his loggings of pirate shortwave broadcasts he received over the Christmas weekend at his cabin in the woods. Some of it is pretty rough listening, in that pirate’s use low power levels and…

  • Radio News for Sale

    As discussed on the last two radioshows, Clear Channel’s Madison, WI news/talk station WIBA has sold the naming rights of its newsroom to AMCORE bank. Kristian Knutsen has been hot on this story, writing three stories for the Daily Page blog of Madison’s alt weekly Isthmus.

  • No Surprise, NPR Smears Florida Pirates

    In the 1970s NPR lobbied the FCC to get rid of low-power FM radio, and in 1978, the Commission did. Then in 2000 NPR lobbied Congress to hem in the new low-power FM service, and Congress did that. Now it’s 2005 and it should be no surprise that the public radio network would air a…

  • Making DXing Fun

    WFMU‘s the Professor has been writing a series of posts about his late night AM and shortwave radio listening, documenting both his approach and his finds in a breezy, fun style that stands in stark opposition to the typical DXing logs you find. He also includes MP3s of his finds, so that you can DX…

  • Rest of Pirate Radio USA Interview Will Be Posted by Midnight

    Like I did with the part of the interview with WFMU’s Ken Freedman that didn’t air during the regular radio show, I will post about six minutes of my interview with DJ Him and DJ Her who produced the documentary Pirate Radio USA that there wasn’t time to air during today’s radioshow. If you’re already…