Tag: pirate radio
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Media Monarchy on Radio23 Roundtable: Future of Community Radio
Media Monarchy was recently invited to join a roundtable discussion on the future of community radio in the Pacific Northwest.
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Alt Media Under Attack As Corporate/State Media Want More
In order to counter alternative media, an adviser to the Federal Communications Commission has suggested using your tax money to create “public media” that will serve as a “filter” and a “megaphone” for a network of government-funded journalists competing with other, non-government-backed reporters…
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free radical: jeff simmons, pra, radio23 & cascade community radio
from willamette week: On a plush couch in the back of Northeast Portland bar Tiga, Jeff Hylton Simmons asks if I know what time it is. “About 10 till 10,” I tell him. He opens his laptop. “All I’ve got to do is turn this thing off,” he explains, waiting for a five-second countdown to…
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low-power fm radio gains a small victory over fcc
from arstechnica: Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full power station signal interference. “This is terrific news for the low power radio community,” declared Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project,…
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pirate radio ‘puts lives at risk’ & bloggers aren’t journalists
from bbc: Authorities have been increasing their efforts to crack down on pirate radio stations in the UK. Regulator Ofcom says the broadcasts can put lives at risk by interfering with emergency service frequencies, and can also block legitimate stations. Police officers raided an address in north London which, they say, housed an illegal radio…