Mitchell Szczepanczyk from Chicago Media Action joins to discuss the Dec. 8 filing for bankruptcy by the Tribune Company. Mitchell has been watching Tribune for many years now, since the company is a major media player both in the Chicago area and nationally. So he has some longitudinal perspective often lacking in press reports. Download/Podcast: […]

On Nov. 7 the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, celebrated its 25th anniversary with a conference held in Montreal, QC. Community radio CKUT‘s News Collective recorded the conference, making the audio available to other community radio stations to share. On this edition of the radioshow we listen to two presentations from the panel […]

The live broadcast of mediageek goes for a full hour, although only 30 minutes is posted for syndication and podcast. I’ve posted the 2nd half of a few shows, but I’ve got a pretty good backlog going on right now. Here’s the 2nd half of last Thursday’s show featuring Tom Roe, program director for free103point9. […]

free103point9 is a transmission arts organization that started as a micropower radio station, moved online and broadened its horizons to become a sponsor and creator of sonic art. Now the group is poised to return to the broadcast airwaves after receiving a full-power non-commercial FM broadcast license from the FCC. free103point9 program director Tom Roe […]

John Anderson–he of 40+ appearances on mediageek–travels north to be live in the WNUR studio so we can discuss the Yes Men’s latest hoax, distributing over a million copies of their own special edition of the New York Times declaring the Iraq war to be over. Somehow we also manage to dovetail into talk about […]

On November 4 two decisions with great importance to our nation were made: the election of Barack Obama as president, and the FCC’s decision to open up whitespace spectrum to broadband internet. Free Press’ campaign director Tim Karr joins to talk about the impact of these two decisions. Podcast/Download: mediageeek 6 November 2008 broadcast quality […]

FCC-watcher Matthew Lasar joins again to tell us more about the importance of the radio spectrum that will lie vacant after the digital TV transition in Februrary, 2009, and how it might be used for wireless broadband internet. Podcast/Download: mediageek 30 October 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20081030.mp3[/mp3]

This week’s guest is my pal Andrew O’Baoill who joins to discuss his dissertation work exploring the relationship if internet broadcasting with community radio, including the benefits of webcasting and podcasting, and the challenges these new media pose to traditional broadcasters. Podcast/Download: mediageek 23 October 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20081023.mp3[/mp3]

A little-recognized aspect of Illinois’ new statewide cable TV franchise law is that it takes away local municipalities’ ability to enforce zoning laws and similar provisions when it comes to how cable TV providers use the public right-of-way. Residents of Evanston, IL got a rude wake up call to this provision when AT&T started installing […]

This week Mitchell Szczepanczyk from Chicago Media Action joins us to talk about some of their top media reform issues right now. In particular, we get into the digital TV transition, and the folks who will be left behind, along with CMA’s challenges to Chicago TV broadcasters’ FCC licenses over the poor quality of their […]