The Free Music Archive aims to be a curated warehouse of music from all genres that is licensed by the artist, label or other rights holder for free use under a Creative Commons license. The Archive is a project of free form community radio station WFMU, and station manager Ken Freedman tells us more about […]

FCC watcher Matthew Lasar joins again to update us on just a few things happening with the FCC, including the Sirius/XM merger and the upcoming Supreme Court review of fleeting expletives. Download/Podcast: mediageek 11 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080711.mp3[/mp3]

This week it’s a big news wrap up with stories on some promised concessions from XM and Sirius in exchange for FCC approval of their planned merger, how AT&T and Verizon are asking the FCC to act on Net Neutrality and Comcast’s BitTorrent blocking, and some questionable police action against a Georgia pirate. Podcast/Download: mediageek […]

John Anderson from DIYmedia.net joins again to tell us more about some of the community stations he visited and learned about while at a digital radio conference in Budapest, Hungary. Download/Podcast: mediageek 27 June 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080627.mp3[/mp3]

Digital HD Radio in the US has been available for a couple of years now, but doesn’t seem to be clicking with the listening public. Europe has had a completely different digital radio system available in many countries for several years, too, but it doesn’t appear to be much more popular. Mediageek’s resident digital radio […]

This week an encore edition from March: Brad Johnson, a refugee of Clear Channel, is the man behind low-power community station KQRP in Salida, CA. Unfortunately, because the FCC still considers low-power stations to be a secondary service, KQRP is experiencing interference from translator repeater stations that aren’t originating local, community-oriented programming. Brad tells us […]

Reclaim the Media’s Jonathan Lawson joins to talk about RTM’s series of Media Heroes trading cards celebrating the lives and work of people who made our current world of independent/grassroots media possible, and who laid the groundwork for the media reform movement. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-06-06 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080606.mp3[/mp3]

This week’s feature is part 2 of my interview with Lee Montgomery of Neighborhood Public Radio. In this second half Lee tells us what reaction they got when members of the National Public Radio board visited their neighborhood-based mirror image station in Manhattan. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-05-30 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2008/mg20080530.mp3[/mp3]

This week the feature is the other NPR – Neighborhood Public Radio. It’s a broadcasting art project, taking open-mic studios to art galleries to connect with the surrounding community through radio. I had a chance this week to stop in to NPR’s storefront studio next door to the Whitney Museum in New York City, where […]

Matthew Lasar is an astute observer of the American media policy landscape. A media historian and lecturer at U-C Santa Cruz, he’s authored two definitive books on the Pacifica Network, and currently writes for his own website, the Lasar Letter on the FCC, and for the tech new site ArsTechnica. Matthew joins me to talk […]