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Sinclair’s Mark Hyman Unclear on the Concept of Public Airwaves
Yesterday a coalition of media and activist organizations, including Moveon.org and Media Matters for America, launched a protest campaign against Sinclair Broadcasting. They’re pressuring Sinclair’s advertisers with letters complaining of the TV station owner’s partisan leanings evident in programs like vice president Mark Hyman’s nightly wacko conservative commentary, The Point. In response, Hyman told Broadcasting…
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U-C IMC Alum Produces Short Documentaries on Guatemala Reconciling with Painful Past
My friend Brent MacDonald is a World Fellow for PBS’ Frontline and traveled to Guatemala earlier this year “to uncover the history of a village that was caught in the crossfire of Guatemala’s civil war.” A series of six short documentary videos are now at the Frontline/World Fellows website. Brent was one of the founding…
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On This Week’s Radioshow: Interview with Radio Free Moscow’s (Idaho) Leigh Robartes
Last night I had the opportunity to interview Leigh Robartes, who is one of the founders of Radio Free Moscow KRFP, in Moscow, ID. KRFP is one of the three stations that currently airs the mediageek radioshow. We talked about how the station got on the air and the media scene in the Moscow area.…
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news headlines for 12-3-04 radioshow
These are the news headlines as read on the Dec. 3, 2004 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Patrick Thompson’s Eavesdropping Charge Dropped; Champaign Considers Educational Programming for City Cable Channel; FCC Hearing on Media Consolidation; Michael Powell Says Ownership Regs a Way Off; PA Law Limits Municipal Wireless.
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For What It’s Worth — Belkin TuneCast II Mod Works
Earlier this year I threw in my two cents regarding the iPirate meme circling the blogosphere, with people modifying the iTrip mini FM transmitter for the iPod in order to eke out a few more feet of broadcast power. And just last week I mentioned in passing that some other mini transmitters, like the Belkin…
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Berkeley Daily Planet on FRB’s Pirate TV
The Berkeley Daily Planet covers Free Radio Berkeley’s unlicensed TV plans: Starting next week, would-be TV producers can get from Free Radio Berkeley the parts they need for an estimated $500 to $1100, depending on the power level. Once assembled—a process Dunifer claims is no harder than putting together a stereo—the transmitters are capable of…
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Pennsylvania, a State Captured by the Telecomm Industry
Sascha very meticulously deconstructs the recent “victory” for the city of Philadelphia to continue with its free municipal wi-fi network, as part of a legislative compromise that still hands over control of future municipal wi-fi to the telcomm industry. After a couple of years, communities in Pennsylvania will be allowed to construct their own wi-fi…
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Happy 5th Birthday Indymedia
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle at the 1999 WTO Ministerial protests, and so is also a fine day to celebrate the birthday of Indymedia. Although Indymedia actually formed over months preceeding the WTO, it was five years ago today that the IMC took center stage as the conduit of information…
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Radioshow Headlines for 11-26-04
These are the media news headlines as read on the 11-26-04 edition of mediageek. The headlines include these stories: Democracy Now Coming to UPTV; Chicago Access Network Faces Opposition from Comcast; Federal Government Windfall in FM Spectrum Auction.
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One Hundred New Pirate Radio StationsÂ… or Maybe 1000
Kirsten Anderberg explores what volunteers with Freak Radio Santa Cruz, Free Radio Olympia and Radio Free Cascadia think about the recent FCC raid on Freak Radio in her new article “One Hunderd New Pirate Radio Stations.” She also gives a good overview of the events that led up to the raid. I agree that one…