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mediageek 5 September 2008: Voices of America

Sun, Sep 7 2008 Listen

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist who works in radical media, investigating the ways histories, public spaces, and forms of citizenship influence one another and shape the realm of political possibility. Her newest project, Voices of America, invites participants to take audio snippets from the US government’s Voice of America radio service and remix them [...]

mediageek 15 August 2008: Pirate Broadcast in China Protests State Suppress

Sun, Aug 17 2008 Listen

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders set up the first non-state radio station in China since 1949 to broadcast a message in protest against Chinese officials continued suppression of free speech and jailing of journalists, even as the Beijing Olympics are underway. We’ll listen to that broadcast, and catch up on how former FCC [...]

mediageek 8 August 2008: FCC Spanks Comcast, but Doesn’t Leave a Mark

Sat, Aug 9 2008 Listen

The FCC finally took action against Comcast for its discriminatory network management practices that blocked its internet customers’ BitTorrent file-sharing traffic. However, while it’s good to see the FCC action, it’s still a mixed decision. Podcast/Download: mediageek 8 Aug. 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF");...

mediageek 1 August 2008: The Nation’s Biggest Pirates Merge

Sun, Aug 3 2008 Listen

The Sirius/XM satellite radio merger was finally approved by the FCC, providing a bare few gimmies for the public interest after months of lobbying and waiting. But the story behind the last-minute tie-breaking vote has to do with both companies’ history of pirate operations. DIYmedia’s John Anderson has be tracking the story for years now [...]

mediageek 25 July 2008: Radio and the March of Technology

Thu, Jul 24 2008 Listen

This week an encore edition from March: Andrew O’Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio. Download/Podcast: mediageek 25 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", [...]

mediageek 18 July 2008: The Free Music Archive

Fri, Jul 18 2008 Listen

The Free Music Archive aims to be a curated warehouse of music from all genres that is licensed by the artist, label or other rights holder for free use under a Creative Commons license. The Archive is a project of free form community radio station WFMU, and station manager Ken Freedman tells us more about [...]

mediageek 11 July 2008: Lasar on Sirius/XM and Fleeting Expletives

Fri, Jul 11 2008 Listen

FCC watcher Matthew Lasar joins again to update us on just a few things happening with the FCC, including the Sirius/XM merger and the upcoming Supreme Court review of fleeting expletives. Download/Podcast: mediageek 11 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("file",...

mediageek 4 July 2008: news wrap-up

Fri, Jul 4 2008 Listen

This week it’s a big news wrap up with stories on some promised concessions from XM and Sirius in exchange for FCC approval of their planned merger, how AT&T and Verizon are asking the FCC to act on Net Neutrality and Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking, and some questionable police action against a Georgia pirate. Podcast/Download: mediageek 4 July [...]

mediageek 27 June 2008: Community Radio in Eastern Europe

Sun, Jun 29 2008 Listen

John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins again to tell us more about some of the community stations he visited and learned about while at a digital radio conference in Budapest, Hungary. Download/Podcast: mediageek 27 June 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("file",...

mediageek 2008-06-20: Digital Radio in Europe

Mon, Jun 23 2008 Listen

Digital HD Radio in the US has been available for a couple of years now, but doesn’t seem to be clicking with the listening public. Europe has had a completely different digital radio system available in many countries for several years, too, but it doesn’t appear to be much more popular. Mediageek’s resident digital radio [...]

mediageek 2008-06-13: Translator Stations Threaten LPFM

Mon, Jun 16 2008 Listen

This week an encore edition from March: Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that aren’t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us more [...]

mediageek 2008-06-06: Media Heroes Trading Cards

Mon, Jun 9 2008 Listen

Reclaim the Media’s Jonathan Lawson joins to talk about RTM’s series of Media Heroes trading cards celebrating the lives and work of people who made our current world of independent/grassroots media possible, and who laid the groundwork for the media reform movement. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-06-06 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", [...]

mediageek 2008-05-30: npr meets NPR

Mon, Jun 2 2008 Listen

This week’s feature is part 2 of my interview with Lee Montgomery of Neighborhood Public Radio. In this second half Lee tells us what reaction they got when members of the National Public Radio board visited their neighborhood-based mirror image station in Manhattan. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-05-30 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new [...]

mediageek 2008-05-16: The Media According to Matthew Lasar

Mon, May 19 2008 Listen

Matthew Lasar is an astute observer of the American media policy landscape. A media historian and lecturer at U-C Santa Cruz, he’s authored two definitive books on the Pacifica Network, and currently writes for his own website, the Lasar Letter on the FCC, and for the tech new site ArsTechnica. Matthew joins me to [...]

mediageek 2008-05-09: How the FCC builds its case against Pirates

Sun, May 11 2008 Listen

A little FOIA request made by a northern California student newspaper reveals how the FCC builds a case against suspected pirate broadcasters. I review that curious information, along with other news updates. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-05-09 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("file",...

mediageek 2008-05-02: Turning Up the Heat on Martin & Disappointed in NPR

Sat, May 3 2008 Listen

The House Commerce Committee may hold a public hearing on how Chairman Martin is running things at the FCC, while the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously votes to disapprove the Commission’s party-line vote to all but dissolve the cross-ownership ban. I also discuss NPR’s recent ludicrous comments to the FCC opposing protections for low-power FM stations. Download/Podcast: mediageek [...]

mediageek 2008-04-25: The Senate Commerce Committee Hears about Net Neutral

Sun, Apr 27 2008 Listen

Hot on the heels of the FCC’s Stanford hearing on broadband network management practices, the Senate Commerce Committee had its own hearing on the issue, with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in the spotlight to explain how the Commission will guarantee a free and open internet. We’ll listen to some of Martin’s comments, and the grilling [...]

mediageek 2008-04-18: Highlights from FCC Stanford Hearing

Fri, Apr 18 2008 Listen

On April 17 the FCC took another stab at holding a public hearing on broadband network management practices, aka Network Neutrality. This one was arguably more successful than the first Harvard one in Feb., if for no other reason than Comcast didn’t hire people to take seats away from interested members of the public. On [...]

mediageek 2008-04-11

Sun, Apr 13 2008 Listen

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mediageek 2008-04-04: Comcast Makes Nicey with BitTorrent

Mon, Apr 7 2008 Listen

A news wrap-up this week: Comcast makes nice with BitTorrent and Chairman Martin wants to nix Skype’s petition for open wireless. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-04-04 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("file", "http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080404.mp3"); so.write("nazdravemp3_1");

mediageek 2008-03-28: Making Sense of the Spectrum Auction

Mon, Mar 31 2008 Listen

The FCC just completed a set of auctions for radio frequency spectrum that will soon be vacated when analog TV goes dark in 2009. Spectrum is the valuable real estate for wireless communications, so the outcome of this auction will have significant long-lasting implications for the future of the internet, broadband and our ability to [...]

mediageek 2008-03-21: Radio and the March of Technology

Mon, Mar 24 2008 Listen

Andrew O’Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio. Download/Podcast mediageek 2008-03-21 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-03-21 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://radio.mediageek.net/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF");...

mediageek 2008-03-14: Translator Stations Threaten LPFM

Sat, Mar 15 2008 Listen

Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that aren’t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us more on this week’s show. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-03-14 broadcast [...]

mediageek 2008-02-29: Stand-Ins Warming the Bench for Comcast at the FCC He

Mon, Mar 3 2008 Listen

At the FCC’s hearing on network neutrality on Feb. 24 Comcast admitting to hiring people off the street to be place holders for its employees in the face of limiting seating. Problem was, those mythical employees never showed up and helped Comcast pack the room instead. This week guest John Anderson returns to talk about [...]

mediageek 2008-02-22: We Go Freeform

Sun, Feb 24 2008 Listen

It’s pledge drive time at home station WEFT, which means guest John Anderson and I go a little more freeform than usual, assisted by WEFT station manager Mick Woolf. We spare you the hard-sell pledge pitches, and do get to discuss the Justice Dept’s push to get the Supreme Court to rule on indecency and [...]

mediageek 2008-02-15: The Push Is On for Net Neutrality

Sun, Feb 17 2008 Listen

This past week was declared Open Internet Week by a coalition of citizens, public interest groups, tech companies, academics and activists, highlighted by the introduction of the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008” (HR 5353). On this edition of the program we hear excerpts from two nationwide press conference calls outlining why and how Network [...]

mediageek 2008-02-08: NAB’s FM Spectrum Grab Isn’t about Radio

Mon, Feb 11 2008 Listen

DIYmedia’s John Anderson joins again to discuss his further investigation into the National Association of Broadcasters’ proposal for the FCC to allow AM stations to have low-power translators on the FM dial. His conculsion: it’s not about radio at all. You’ll have to listen to learn more. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-02-08 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-02-08 broadcast quality ogg [...]

mediageek 2008-02-01: Grants and Public Broadcasting

Mon, Feb 4 2008 Listen

Bill Poorman is a seven-year veteran of public broadcasting, having worked as a journalist and news director in both radio and television. Even though he contends that public broadcasting still produces the best broadcast journalism in the US, he has a critique that stems from the system’s reliance on corporate dollars and grants. On this [...]

mediageek 2008-01-25

Sat, Jan 26 2008 Listen

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mediageek 2008-01-18: Canada’s Regulator Tackles Media Ownership

Mon, Jan 21 2008 Listen

This week is a big news wrap-up, first looking at a new regulation aimed at controlling media ownership concentration in Canada. Then I review what’s at stake with the internet and net neutrality in 2008, which I think is going to be a big year in determining the future of independent media and communication on [...]

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