Podcast – mediageek radioshow
A weekly look at independent media + news & views on our media environment.
Episodes
December 28, 2009
On this penultimate edition of mediageek I take a look back at two segments exploring unlicensed radio. First, we revisit some audio from the Radio Access Democracy conference in 2004, including interviews with participants of a transmitter building workshop. Then we listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey who produced the documentary Making Waves, […]
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December 21, 2009
The big news this week is that the House finally voted on and passed the Local Community Radio Act of 2009. Now that we’re half-way to the restoration of LPFM I thought we’d take a look back at some of the pressure that caused the FCC to create LPFM in the first place. We revisit […]
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December 14, 2009
The mediageek radioshow is coming to a close with the end of 2009, so for the last four shows we’ll be listening to some of Paul’s favorite interviews from the last seven years. On today’s program we listen to two different interviews with media pranksters and identity correctors, the Yes Men. First we listen to […]
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December 7, 2009
This week we discuss the ten-year anniversary of Indymedia and the “Battle in Seattle.” Also, an important announcement about the radioshow. Download/Podcast: mediageek 3 December 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20091203.mp3[/mp3]
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At a time when media and information technology continues to become more pervasive, it stands to question whether all this tech actually gives us access to the information we need to live our lives better as individuals and citizens. The Knight Commission was formed to investigate the information needs of communities in a democracy and […]
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John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins us this week to review recent news in digital and pirate radio. First he tells us about a proposed power boost for HD Radio that would increase interference on the FM dial. Then we discuss the recent voluntary shutdown of San Francisco’s Pirate Cat radio in response to an FCC […]
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November 2, 2009
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is showing no trepidation about jumping in to Network Neutrality, a subject that he advised President Obama on prior to the election. The Commission recently approved a proceeding to create new rules enshrining principles of internet freedom into policy. On this week’s show we discuss the proposed rules and their possible […]
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On October 15 the House Commerce Committee passed the Local Radio Act by unanimous voice vote, potentially clearing the way for the best shot LPFM has had at being restored since 2000. We discuss this optimistic news along with the FCC clearing the way for noncommercial FM stations to move in on the space formerly […]
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Due to disastrous technical difficulties the live recording of this week’s show was lost. Instead, here is one from the archives: April 2, 2009 Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews, a locally-focused news website employing professional journalists working with over 100 volunteer reporters to cover Chicago news not reported in the major mainstream […]
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October 4, 2009
Environmental Encroachment is a Chicago-based marching band that bills itself as a magic circus band. The unit is a group of free-thinking musicians who are out there not just talking about reclaiming the streets for art and culture, but doing it. EE is on its way to a gathering of like-minded bands in Somerville, MA […]
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My pal John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins this week to talk over FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announcing two new network neutrality principles and the whole Commission endorsing low-power FM. Download/Podcast mediageek 24 September 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090924.mp3[/mp3]
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September 21, 2009
My June 18 interview with radio industry veteran and the man behind InsideMusicMedia.com, Jerry Del Colliano, seems to be a favorite. This is no doubt due to Jerry’s unflinching observations on how the nation’s largest radio groups missed the boat on the internet generation while they were busy playing Monopoly with radio stations. So this […]
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This week we listen to part two of my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Life Inc., How the World Became a Corporation and How We Can Take It Back. We discuss the importance and vitality of everyday independent and collective action, and the joy of grassroots, bottom up media. Download/Podcast: mediageek […]
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September 6, 2009
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and grassroots media maker who recently published the new book Life, Inc. In the book Rushkoff explores how our corporate-dominated life came to be, looking to the corporation’s origins in the Renaissance and its path to modern hegemony. All the while Rushkoff contends that this path wasn’t inevitable, but is […]
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Communication Workers of America release a study on broadband speed state-by-state, and CWA vice-president Annie Hill tells us the scores and what they mean. Also, the FCC announces a wide-ranging inquiry into wireless communications technology innovation and competition. Podcast/Download: mediageek 27 August 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090827.mp3[/mp3]
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August 24, 2009
Tim Hwang is a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and he recently co-authored a short research report examining the new FCC commissioners for the Pelican Group. In the report, titled “Uncertain Futures,” Hwang and co-author Erikk Hokenson look focus particularly on the two new commissioners, Republican Meredith Atwell Baker and Democrat […]
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The Illinois Citizens Utility Board looks out for consumers’ rights when dealing with utility companies, including both telephone and cell phone companies. CUB’s communications director, Jim Chilsen, joins to explain more about how everyone can save money on land-line and cell phone bills by looking out for unnecessary charges and services. Podcast/Download: mediageek 13 August […]
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Recently Apple’s iPhone app store came under scrutiny again when news surfaced that the new Google Voice application had been blocked. Though no reason has been specified by Apple, there are strong suspicions that the company is attempting to prevent competition from AT&T’s voice service and other businesses that Google Voice might pose a challenge […]
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This week it’s a big news update as we cover the Senate confirmation of the last two new FCC commissioners, the progress of the Performance Rights Act in the Senate and take a look at NPR’s new website which looks like a bid to become a new web news portal. Download/Podcast: mediageek 30 July 2009 […]
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Matthew Lasar, media historian and writer for ArsTechnica, joins again to discuss the future of radio and the new line up of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission. Download/Podcast: mediageek 23 July 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090723.mp3[/mp3]
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