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Last Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line (but not quite yet listed on the radio show page). It features an interview with a volunteer from Free Radio Milwaukee, which is currently off the air, along with the usual media news wrap-up. Listen in: Low-bandwidth MP3 (16 kbps; 4 MB) Broadcast-quality MP3 (64 kbps; 13…

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows 50% of respondents saying that allowing companies to own more broadcast and newspaper operations in the same city will have a negative effect, with only 10 percent said that would have a positive effect. This is up from a similar…

New York Magazine’s Michael Wolff links up the Powell FCC’s recent regulatory gift to the broadcast industry (and newspapers) with the pass the mainstream media has given the Bush administration (and Mikey Powell’s daddy) over the question of WMDs that still haven’t shown up in Iraq. Even though, for me, the quid pro quo is…

On today’s radio show my feature is an interview with Jerianne who is the editor of Zine World – A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press, and who publishes her own personal zine, Rejected Band Names. You can find out more info from Zine World at their website, Or just go ahead and order a…

I just posted to the Urbana-Champaign IMC my analysis of the FCC’s media ownership rules changes and the bill that exited the Senate Commerce Committee’s today that would rollback some of the FCC’s changes. In order to make this all more concrete, I try to figure out how these rules and this bill would affect…

I’m here at the Allied Media Conference in lovely Bowling Green, OH. It’s been a fun first day of tabling and going to a few sessions. I’ve only been to two — both caucuses for the Indymedia Centers in attendance and on organizing microcinemas. They were both productive, though I wish we could have a…

People all around the country yesterday turned out to protest Clear Channel communications, the largest owner (and abuser) of radio stations in the US, in anticipation of further relaxation of media ownership rules this coming Monday, June 2. Lisa Rein has audio and video highlights of the San Francisco protest, Pittsburgh IMC has audio from…

People are protesting all over New York City today for peace, against war, and against corporate media propaganda. Keep upated at NYC Indymedia.

The Washington Post reports on the rough makeup of the attendees at the FCC’s “public forum” on media ownership rules held yesterday in Richmond, VA: “By midday, 195 of the People had made their way to the convention center here. One hundred nineteen of them were white men in suits; many of those men were…

Since the FCC and Justice Dept. rejected a deal to merge the US’s only two direct-satellite broadcasters, DirecTV and Echostar, DirecTV has been back on the block looking for a buyer. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has expressed interest in adding DirecTV to its inventory of European and Asian direct-broadcast satellite holdings. But last Friday the…