Jason Croft is an enthusiast of mid-century culture and music, bringing it to the radio and to the web for more than seven years at his website, Java’s Bachelor Pad. Now Jason is setting out to bring together this grassroots network of fellow hep cats and cool kittens in print, with Bachelor Pad magazine. He […]

On Sept. 20 the FCC held a public hearing on media ownership at the HQ of Rainbow/Push on the South side of Chicago. This hearing focused on the sorry state of minority ownership in media, which is especially bad in Chicago, one of the nation’s largest media markets. We listen to some testimony from that […]

On this edition I share some audio from a panel discussion I participated in at the Global Fusion conference, Sept. 6 – 8, sponsored by Southern Illinois University. My co-panelists were John Anderson of DIYmedia.net, Jay Needhman, Professor of Sonic Arts at SIU, and Josh Gumiela, an MFA student at SIU. In the panel we […]

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Ireland, like much of Europe, has a very different radio history than the US. Non-state-run radio, whether commercial or community, is only about 20 years old. Now Ireland is about to start licensing religious radio stations, bringing its media landscape a little closer to America’s. Andrew O’Baoill talks about the differences between the US and […]

This week it’s a big news update, covering: criticism over the lack of public interest considerations in the FCC’s rulemakings for the transition to digital TV; the Sept. 20 media ownership hearing in Chicago; progress in restoring LPFM; the proposal to allow AM stations to have low-power repeaters on the FM dial. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2007-08-17 […]

August 11 was Home Movie Day, dedicated to educating people about the valuable memories and histories contained in celluloid that litters closets, basements and attics. Jimi Jones helped organized Home Movie Day in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he works for the University of Illinois Library as an archivist and media preservationist. We talk about the value […]

An encore edition: My guest for this program is Larry Bloch from Brattleboro, VT Community Radio who shares the story of how that small city started with an unlicensed community station that was shut down by the FCC, and then transitioned to having a licensed low-power station. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2007-08-03 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2007-08-03 […]

An encore edition: Victor Pickard is the guest to discuss the history of American journalism. He questions the received wisdom that the current commercial news system was inevitable, and talks about why and how we can reform journalism. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2007-07-27 broadcast quality mp3

The nation’s two satellite radio providers want to merge and the National Association of Broadcasters aren’t happy about it. The NAB is trying obfuscate technical details about the merger, but also filing FOIA requests that may bear some fruit for those of us watching from the sidelines. DIYmedia.net’s John Anderson joins to talk about what […]