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December
Future
local LPFM radio being threatened by Calvary Chapel - FRN
Grapevine post by REC Networks details the coup-in-progress by the religious
broadcast conglomerate to fill open LPFM frequencies with translators.
(Dec. 26)
Police
raid ship that broadcasts Arutz Sheva pirate radio station
- One of the longest continuously-operating offshore pirate stations in
the world is busted by Israeli authorities. (Dec. 24)
Michaels
plotting next venture - Five months after getting booted from
Clear Channel, former mega-broadcast executive Randy Michaels now sounds
a little less flamboyant than he used to. (Dec. 23)
Radio
Free Software - Salon.com reports on the open-source software
movement, designed to make microchips more universally useful; the first
great leap involves radio reception without a radio. (Dec. 18)
Media
Feudalism Under Siege - Column questions whether the moves by
Big Media to lock down its content is due to protectionism or anti-competitive
practice. (Dec. 11)
"Pirate"
station features raw radio - A prude at the Chippewa Herald pens
a blushing report on a new pirate station in town. (Dec. 9)
The
effect? I'll tell you what the effect is - it's pissing me off!
- Cotton Candy column from the Washington D.C. City Paper weighs in on
the duel between the Future of Music Coalition and NAB over radio deregulation.
(Dec. 6)
Piracy,
Hip-Hop Style - The Denver Westword reports on the stir caused
by Skyjack Radio's brief blaze on the airwaves. (Dec. 5)
A
Solution to Low-Power Problems - LPAM station owner William Walker
gets a guest commentary in Radio World to pitch the idea of legalizing
LPAM at community-wide power levels. (Dec. 4)
November
If
TiVo Thinks Your Are Gay, Here's How to Set it Straight
- The
Wall Street Journal covers the troubling trend of automated profile-bots
that try to fine-tune advertising to fit individual consumers. (Nov. 26)
The
Military's New War of Words - Commentary
published in the Los Angeles Times questions the ethics of the Bush Administration's
ramped-up propaganda efforts, both abroad and at home. (Nov. 24)
Deadline
Hollywood: The Untold Story - From the L.A. Weekly: "How
corporate takeovers make the media less curious." (Nov. 22)
A
Former Radio Worker's Story - E.B. Stevenson laments how his dream
of a career in radio was dashed by consolidation sparked by the 1996 Telecom
Act; from Atlanta Indymedia. (Nov. 18)
NYSE
Signs on as the Exclusive Sponsor of 'Infinity Radio Connect: American
Security' - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld takes calls from the public on two commercial radio stations
in New York - and the entire venture is sponsored by the New York Stock
Exchange! (Nov. 16)
Commercial
Radio Hijacked - The "Institute for Applied Piracy"
claims it took over a popular commercial station in Sydney, Australia
and broadcast an anti-WTO manifesto. (Nov. 15)
Automated
Radio Stations Miss Storm - The Toledo
Blade reports on a Clear Channel cluster that stayed with the hits while
twisters bore down all over. (Nov. 14)
Clear
Channel hires Washington lobbyist - The San Antonio Business Journal
reports on Clear Channel's acquisition of the chief House negotiator on
the Telecom Act. (Nov. 13)
Tuning
Out: Detroit Radio Loses Local Flavor - The Detroit News runs
a multi-part special report detailing the history of local radio in the
city and how consolidation as killed off an important part of the city's
media environment. (Nov. 11)
Reading
Services Concerned About Digital Radio -
FM subcarrier signals - often used to carry reading services for the blind
- are in jeopardy of interference from digital radio signals. (Nov. 6)
Porter
Busts Norse for Taping Meeting - A Freak Radio Santa Cruz reporter
is arrested by a city councilman at a public meeting. From the Santa Cruz
IMC. (Nov. 5)
Advocacy
Groups Rap Comcast Contact with FCC
- Chairman
of Comcast personally lobbies FCC Chairman Michael Powell to approve the
company's merger with AT&T. (Nov. 4)
"Bang,
Bang, Bang" - American Journalism Review reports on the dearth
of radio news - and how what news is left is much more superficial. (November)
Strings
Attached - "Adventures in Grant-Funded Journalism,"
published in the Columbia Journalism Review. (November)
October
Some
Things Considered - Although
a couple of years late to the party, the East Bay Express rants about
the anti-public nature of National Public Radio and its opposition to
the LPFM rulemaking. (Oct. 30)
Money
& Morals - Originally published in the
Chicago Reader alternative weekly, this article describes public radio's
gradual and inexorable slip toward commercialism. (Oct. 25)
No Community Voices Wanted
- Commentary published in Extra! laments how the "professionalization
of public radio" leads to less access to radio for the public. (Oct.
22)
Digital
Radio: Small Guys' Ruin?
- Wired News reports on what critics of digital radio are saying about
the future of the medium. (Oct. 18)
Mediageek:
What a Red Herring - Paul Riismandel slays
the Associated Press for manufacturing problems about the radio industry
while completely missing the real issues at hand. (Oct. 13)
FCC
Approves IBOC; Powell Calls Order 'Historic'
- Radio World reports the projected rollout of IBOC digital audio
broadcasting. (Oct. 10)
FCC
Selects Digital Radio Technology - The agency's news release on
the adoption of IBOC as the standard for U.S. digital radio. (Oct. 10)
The
dark secret kept hidden for 50 years: how a global media empire was built
on a lie - From the London Independent:
a scathing indictment of the Bertelsmann media empire for its previously-unrecognized
ties to the Nazi regime. (Oct. 9)
Motorola
chip set digitally tweaks analog radio -
The new product is broken down by EE Times, who provides a more
technical review. (Oct. 1)
Radio
Killed the Radio Star - Former managing
editor of Gavin magazine laments the sorry state of radio by attending
the NAB convention. (Oct. 1)
Clear
Channel Stumbles - The
Fall 2002 edition of Media Alliance's MediaFile contains a succinct overview
of Clear Channel Communications and why it's a danger to democracy. (October)
Reporters
Without Borders Publishes First Annual Global Press Freedom Index
- The United States, home of the First Amendment, ranks #17, below Costa
Rica but above Benin. (October)
September
As
Digital Radio Stumbles, New Products Fill the Gap
- The New York Times covers Motorola's announcement of enhanced
analog receivers and ponders digital broadcasting. (Sept. 30)
Letter
from Washington: The Chairman - The New
Yorker's eloquent prose provides some interesting insights into FCC
Chairman Michael Powell. (Sept. 30)
NPR Losing Stations
to Religious Broadcaster - Article on American Family Association's
move to snap up real estate on the low end of the FM dial. (Sept. 25)
Radio
Static - "Protesters decry media consolidation at national
broadcasters' conference." From The Stranger. (Sept. 25)
Seattle
Weekly: Inside Radio - Geov Parrish visits both the NAB conference
and the counter-convention, but forgot to listen to the dial. (Sept. 20)
Media
Future: Risk of Monopoly? - The Christian Science Monitor reports
on the FCC's pending effort to further relax media ownership limits. Have
we reached a breaking point? (Sept. 19)
microBLAST!
2002 UPDATE - From Seattle IMC: Preliminary report on the Mosquito
Fleet's activities. (Sept. 16)
Counter
NAB: 16 Billboards "Liberated" - From Seattle IMC: Quick
report and a picture. (Sept. 15)
NAB
Demo Footage - From Seattle IMC: Shot at Reclaim the Media! events
in Seattle on 9/14, requires Windows Media Player. (Sept. 15)
Reclaim
the Media Photographs 9/13/02 - From Seattle IMC: Shots from the
rallies in Freeway Park and the panel sessions at Town Hall. (Sept. 14)
Renowned
journalists preach democratic media at a packed Seattle Town Hall
- From Seattle IMC: A brief report with four photos from the keynote event
of the Reclaim the Media! conference. (Sept. 14)
Negativland
Uses Mosquito Fleet to Bite Clear Channel and the NAB - From Seattle
IMC: As reported by Mediageek's Paul Riismandel, who heard the whole thing
go down. (Sept. 13)
Justice
Airwaves Mobilization takes it to the Shortwaves - From Seattle
IMC: The keepers of 101.1 FM for the Mosquito Fleet also fire up on shortwave
for a time. (Sept. 12)
Randy
Michaels: Wal-Mart Is My Hero - Former bigshot in charge of Clear
Channel's radio division lays out his philosophy for broadcasting in Radio
Ink. (Sept. 6)
The
Digital Challenge: Are You Prepared? -
Abstract of KPMG's report on the corporate media's futile efforts to lock
down intellectual property. Covers six of the 10 largest global media
companies. (September)
August
Comsearch
Awarded Subcontract For Low Power FM Interference Study
- The corporate press release announces the start of the project. (Aug.
28)
This
Media Life: Apocalypse Now - The New York
Metro's Michael Wolffe wonders if Big Media is getting too big to be business-friendly.
(Aug. 26)
Bracing
for the Digital Crackdown - It's only a matter of time before
file sharing becomes a crime, says Wired News. (Aug. 22)
Media
Politics: Tackling the NAB - Seattle IMC previews the upcoming
Reclaim the Media conference, to be held during the National Association
of Broadcasters' annual radio convention in September. (Aug. 21)
Wireless
channel use sets up turf battle -
Starbucks isn't just muscling in on the coffee market : they have designs
on the airwaves as well. (Aug. 19)
FCC
Orders Switch to Digital TV
- Tired of the delays, FCC makes 2007 the year TV weans off analog. (Aug.
8)
Murky
Water for Clear Channel -
A third in a series of Wired news reports on Clear Channel - this one
details how the company's run afoul of regulators - and possibly the law
- recently. (Aug. 7)
Radio's
Titan Hits the Skids
- Salon's continuing coverage of Clear Channel pokes fun at the run bad
publicity for the company. (Aug. 7)
"Good
Mornin' (Your Town Here)" -
Wired news covers Clear Channel's widespread practice of voice tracking.
(Aug. 6)
Clear
Cutting the Radio Forest - Wired news profiles
how Clear Channel decimated the San Diego radio market as an example of
its practices nationwide. (Aug. 5)
July
Corporate
radio has pulled the plug on many a radio personality - The
San Diego Union-Tribune reports on the shrinking number of voices to be
found on the radio dial. (Jul. 30)
Can't
Keep a Good Monk Down -
The Boulder Weekly has another writeup of Boulder Free Radio and its latest
round of cat-and-mouse with the FCC. (Jul. 18)
Pirate
Radio is Still Afloat - Radio World
updates the broadcast industry on the health of the microradio movement.
(Jul. 17)
Left
of the Dial - Knoxville, Kentucky's Metro
Pulse covers the activities of KFAR - First Amendment Radio - and
other noncommercial stations in the area. (Jul. 11)
IBOC
and the Birth of Feature-Rich Radio - From an ally in the fight
to save LPFM comes a wholehearted endorsement of digital radio. Note the
rejection of democracy. (Jul. 3)
Net
radio raises a pirate flag - C-net covers the launch of Streamer,
the first foray into peer-to-peer webcasting - designed to circumvent
the need to stream radio from a central server. (Jul. 3)
Memo
to: Media Monopolists - Sarcastic diatribe
on the multiple downsides of media conglomeration from FastCompany. (July)
June
On-air
radio hoax causes humiliation, prompts lawsuit - "Bruce
Da Moose," one of the brightest bulbs at WBTT (A Clear Channel station),
drops an STD bomb on an unsuspecting woman live on the air. (Jun. 21)
PAC-ing
a Punch - WestWord
sheds some light on Clear Channel's newly-formed political action committee.
(Jun. 20)
Kate
Sullivan's Rockblog: Interview with Mel Karmazin - Blogger
goes one-on-one with the president of Viacom. Contains some candid comments
from Mel on the radio industry. (Jun. 8)
Hey,
Mr. DJ, open the request line - USA
Today provides bare-bones coverage of the hyper-consolidation in radio
debate. At least they wrote something... (Jun. 5)
Access
Denied! - Sound and Vision magazine provides
a great overview of how new digital copy protection schemes will make
you pay to play, over and over.... (June)
Blockade
the Airwaves - "Piquetero TV in Argentina"; comprehensive
article courtesy of Metamute. (June)
May
Look
Out, Corporate America, Here Comes My Pirate Radio Station -
The Onion pokes fun at so-called "vanity" pirate broadcasters. (May
29)
Mega
Hurts - The Washington Post puts a local spin on the "Clear
Channel is huge" theme by talking with execs at the company's D.C.-area
station cluster. (May 29)
South
Side Sound Salvation - The Pittsburgh City Paper highlights
South Side Radio, which broadcast the oral history of the surrounding neighborhood
from the roof of a public library until the FCC silenced it in September 2004.
(May 22)
Unshackling
Big Media - Neil Hickey provides an in-depth analysis of the Powell
philosophy of media regulation; courtesy of the Columbia Journalism Review.
(May)
April
LPFM
Rollout Creeps Along -
Radio World reports that the program can't fully get moving until Congress
and the FCC settle some unfinished issues. (Apr. 24)
Haitian
broadcasters blast pirate stations -
Haitians have been instrumental in keeping the microradio flame alive.
IndypressNY gives a good nationwide snapshot of the scene. (Apr. 23)
In
low power FM fight, who's more local? -
Current magazine sheds light on the influence of foundations and
organized religion on the redevelopment of low power FM radio in America.
(Apr. 8)
Radio
pirates trivialize issues - The Knoxville Daily Beacon
knocks Citadel Communications for mimicking a local pirate station during
a format change, and praises First Amendment Radio for keeping things
real. (Apr. 8)
Pirate
radio station marks 7 years on the air - Freak Radio Santa Cruz
gets positive coverage from the local paper, the Sentinel. (Apr.
1)
March
Washington
Tunes In
Eric Boehlert's continuing Salon series on Clear Channel focuses
on how Congress is starting to feel uneasy about the company's political
arrogance. (Mar. 27)
Pirate
radio station silenced in Asheville - Indymedia post gives a good
summary of Free Radio Asheville's raid; the DJ on the air was arrested,
but not charged with the crime of unlicensed broadcasting. (Mar. 26)
Media
Reformers Rally in D.C. - Alternet story describes the Angels
of the Public Interest's descent on FCC headquarters. (Mar. 25)
Public
Interest Angels Descend on FCC - Indymedia report details the
protest by the Angels of the Public Interest outside FCC headquarters.
(Mar. 24)
Pirates
with headphones - The
San Francisco Chronicle applauds the FCC's action to add LPFM stations
to dials around the country. (Mar. 6)
Dead
Air: Corporate Radio uses Regulations to Stamp out Competition
- Article in Liberty For All online magazine discusses the radio
industry's collusion with the FCC to find and bust pirates, and what it
all means for freedom of speech from a libertarian perspective. (Mar.
3)
Pirate
broadcasters get a boost from free-speech ruling; Court tosses ban on
licenses for low-power rebels - The San
Francisco Chronicle reports the temporary tossing of Congress' "anti-pirate"
ban on participation in the LPFM service. (Mar. 3)
Radio
Daze - From Boston Magazine: "New York shock jocks, the same
damn songs played over and over, media megamonsters — who took the
"Boston" out of Boston radio?" (March)
February
Media
Monsters - From the Boulder Weekly: "The ongoing, insidious
effects of the 1996 Telecommunications Act." (Feb. 28)
Salon
Books: Rebels on the Air Review - Very positive review of Rebels
on the Air, published in late 2001 on the history of alternative radio
in America (Feb. 11)
Don't
touch that dial, or, the Triumph of the Grumps - "One Reason Why
People Tire of Freedom" - A slightly cynical - yet very pointed - commentary
on the necessity of choice on the radio dial (February)
IMADR
Home Page Interview: Human Rights Radio - The International Movement
Against Discrimination and Racism interviews Mbanna Kantako on the history
and mission of HRR. (February)
Litigation:
Living Waters Bible Church v. Town of Enfield - News release from
the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who has gotten involved in the
case of a church-founded LPFM station getting stonewalled by local zoning
authorities (February)
January
Digital
Killed the Radio Star - Great article debunking the greatness
of the coming Digital Radio age, originally published in the Indypendent,
the newspaper of the NYC Independent Media Center (Jan. 31)
Richmond.com:
Dominion Dissenter Takes to the Airwaves - Scroll toward the bottom
of the page to find this headline - Chris Maxwell, founder of DigitalDisaster.org
and a tireless supporter of LPFM, takes his beef with the Richmond City
Council on the air (Jan. 22)
Monopoly
Money - The Boston Phoenix sounds the alarm over FCC Chairman
Michael Powell's insistent desire to sell off the public airwaves (Jan.
10)
What's
Wrong With This Picture? - Mark Crispin Miller explains the oligopolistic
octopus that the media industry has become. (Jan. 7)
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