The Center for International Media Action, Common Frequency, Inc. and Prometheus Radio Project are the groups behind the objections to these proposed translators, which are low-powered stations that are only permitted to repeat the signal of another station. Common Frequency’s Todd Urick and Prometheus’ Paul Bame join the show to explain why they took this action, and to answer some of the criticisms coming both from the mainstream radio industry and from within community radio.

Paul also reports on the final death blow to the podcast patent troll, and files a correction to his recollection from episode #142 of the “Disco Demolition” night in Chicago.

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He tells us how grassroots campaigns helped to secure the Senate vote, and why Net Neutrality is actually a bi-partisan issue. He also explains how cities, counties and states are taking action to ensure a free and open internet.

Then we discuss a recent challenge to 1,000 applications for translator repeater stations, filed with the FCC. The groups behind the challenge are community radio advocates, concerned that these translators stations would interfere with existing low-power FM stations, should they go on the air. And, finally, we analyze how the great Yanny/Laurel debate is perhaps the first instance of truly viral audio, ever.

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Jennifer, Eric and Paul also discuss how college radio has played a formative and supporting role in the development of hip-hop, by providing an open, often uncensored platform for new and emerging artists. Then we dig into a recent New York Times story that proclaims YouTube as the new platform for pirate radio. Paul offers his cranky take on this proclamation.

Now you can catch this episode on YouTube, along with some of Jennifer’s tour photos:

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Director Ryan Worsley joins to talk about Joyce, his hyper-focused artistic process and what she learned creating this affectionate and honest portrait of an iconoclastic figure and broadcasting legend.

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Our guests are writer, artist, teacher and activist Reagan Jackson and Sandy Cioffi, founder and creative director of fearless360º, a new media and virtual reality production company in Seattle. Together we tackle the vital importance of building empathy in community media, regardless of the platform. Learn about “embodied journalism” and why “data is crude oil for communities.”

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The Sinclair Group is already the largest TV owner by far in the U.S. and its editorial content makes it essentially a propaganda arm of the Trump Administration. Will the F.C.C. under Trump succeed in bending media ownership rules to allow Sinclair to grow to twice its current size?

Under President Obama, the F.C.C allowed Comcast and NBC to merge into a huge media owner, which really opened the door and now Sinclair-Tribune is about to take a huge leap through that door, to create what is essentially a “local media oligopoly,” in which three to four large groups could dominate the “opinion-space” in every local market.

The guests on the show are Lewis A. Friedland, professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and

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We visit the “On The Radio” exhibit on radio history at the San Francisco Airport Museum, where travelers can feast their eyes on 27 cases full of historical items related to radio’s past, ranging from 1920s crystal radios to 1970s novelty radios. Jennifer chats with exhibit curator Daniel Calderon and California Historical Radio Society President Steve Kushman about the exhibit. And Paul brings us an update on where unlicensed radio, aka Pirates, stand under Trump’s FCC.

The “Mystic” Radio Bug and Headset in “On the Radio” exhibit. Photo courtesy SFO Museum.

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Zach Poff put a radio station inside a pond. Poff is a media artist, educator and maker-of-things, and he explains that project and talks about making art with radio technology and listening to sound art.

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We learn how IIT was home to early radio broadcasting pioneers, including vacuum tube inventor Lee de Forest, and why WKCR’s student DJs eschew more familiar rock music in favor of genres like jazz, contemporary classical and experimental music. Plus, Paul shares some memories of his recent visit to Mana’o Radio on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

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