John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins for the 5th anniversary year-end wrap-up, now expanded to two parts. On this edition we discuss the upcoming Dec. 18 FCC meeting with the virtual end of the newspaper-TV cross-ownership ban on the docket. We also talk about how Chairman Kevin Martin has succeeded in digging himself a Michael Powell-sized […]

Michael W. Dean is the former lead singer of the 90s band Bomb, an author of instructional books, podcaster and is probably most well known for his documentary DIY or Die about independent artists. On this edition Michael discusses the value of being flexible in managing the rights for your work as an independent artist […]

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This week we listen to another session from CKUT’s Redefining Media conference, this one is on Indigenous Radio. We hear from Irkar Beljaars, a Metis from Montreal who has been working at CKUT 90.3FM as a journalist and producer of Native Solidarity News (NSN) for about two and a half years, and Stuart Myiow, a […]

We listen to excerpts from a panel on Human Rights and Journalism recorded at CKUT’s 20th Anniversary Conference, Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio. We hear from Jooneed Khan, a veteran international affairs reporter and analyst at LaPresse, and Danielle Holyk, a collective member of Siafu Magazine, a Montreal news and culture publication from […]

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John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins again to help catch up on what’s going on with the media ownership rules review, digital “HD” radio and lots of other media news. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2007-11-02 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2007/mg20071102.mp3[/mp3]

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Maria Juliana Byck is my guest to talk about public access television innovator Paper Tiger as the collective celebrates their 25th anniversary with a documentary film called Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger TV. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2007-10-19 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2007-10-19 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2007/mg20071019.mp3[/mp3]

John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins me again to catch up on what the FCC has been up to this year in the world of pirate radio. Enforcement is up, but so is the number of pirates. So what’s the story? John fills us in. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2007-10-05 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2007-10-05 broadcast quality ogg […]