On this edition we listen to part 2 of my interview with WEFT founding member, Bill Thomas. Podcast/download: mediageek 11-3-06 broadcast quality mp3 (64kbps 14 MB)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of mediageek home station WEFT, my guest for this program is Bill Thomas, one of the founding members of WEFT, and someone who was at the center of the burgeoning community radio movement in the 1970s. We also listen to the results of the Benton foundation and Social-Science Research Council’s […]

My guest for this program is Dan Roberts, producer of the weekly Shortwave Report radio program for the last 9 years. We discuss why shortwave radio is still important even while we have thousands of stations available to us over the internet. mediageek 10-6-06 broadcast quality mp3 (64kbps 14 MB)

On this edition we listen to some audio from the keynote address at the Northwest Community Radio Conference, held on Sept. 15 – 17. Karen Toering from Reclaim the Media dicusses why community radio is still vitally important, and Lupito Florez from KYRS, Spokane WA talks about threats to that low-power community radio station. Download/Podcast: […]

The media watchdog group Free Press just released a research report detailing the rapidly declining rate of broadcast media outlet ownership amongst women and minorities. On this edition we listen to excerpts from a national press briefing featuring the study’s authors, FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, Janet Murguia from the National Council of […]

A popular uprising is happening in that Mexican state, spurred on by a police attack on striking teachers and the diputed national election in July. Radio and television have become important tool’s for the people in their resistance to the neoliberal state and national government. I’m dedicating the entire program to an interview with Nancy […]

Senators have returned to Washington after a month break back in their home districts. Citizens across the country took advantage of that time to rally their elected representatives to support network neutrality. And now the effort steps up in DC as the Senate considers a sweeping telecom bill that doesn’t yet guarantee internet freedom. Free […]

The fall issue of the radically independent Clamor Magazine has a section taking on American Apparel for its anti-union record, charges of sexual harassment by former employees, and advertising criticized for objectifying women. And while many of these charges have already appeared in the press, American Apparel, which made $120 million last year, has decided […]

Podcast/Download: mediageek 8-25-06 broadcast quality mp3 (13 MB 64kbps)

John Anderson of DIYmedia.net and Free Press’ Media Minutes is back in the studio to discuss his latest research on FM translator stations, also known as repeaters. It looks like hundreds of thousands of dollars has been made by one Christian radio group by trafficking in free licenses for these stations, and several new Christian […]