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There is a group of motivated radio lovers in Chicago who think that the city needs a real community radio station, independent of a college, university or other organization that might change its mind about who can be on the radio. Shawn Campbell is the president of the Chicago Independent Radio Project, and she joins me this week to talk about why Chicago needs community radio, and how they hope to squeeze a new noncommercial station onto the dial. Podcast/Download: mediageek 9 October 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

Due to being overworked, along with a last-minute pre-emption, this week s show is an encore edition from May 23: 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 they’re participating in the Whitney Biennial. In part one of my interview, NPR’s Lee Montgomery tells us about Neighborhood Public Radio, its origins and what they’re doing. Podcast/Download: mediageek 3 Oct. 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

This show marks the debut of mediageek on its new home station, WNUR 89.3 FM in Evanston, IL, broadcasting to the north side of Chicago and the North Shore suburbs. My pal John Anderson guests to help re-inaugurate the program as we review the raison d ete of mediageek, and new producer Andrew Gothelf shares his own brief experience interning in a commercial radio newsroom that quickly disappeared. Podcast/Download: mediageek 25 September 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist who works in radical media, investigating the ways histories, public spaces, and forms of citizenship influence one another and shape the realm of political possibility. Her newest project, Voices of America, invites participants to take audio snippets from the US government s Voice of America radio service and remix them and share those remixes. On this edition of mediageek Sarah tells us about this project and how it fits in with the 2008 presidential election season. Podcast/Download: mediageek 5 September 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders set up the first non-state radio station in China since 1949 to broadcast a message in protest against Chinese officials continued suppression of free speech and jailing of journalists, even as the Beijing Olympics are underway. We ll listen to that broadcast, and catch up on how former FCC officials are joining the fight against the FCC s current indecency rules. Download/Podcast: mediageek 15 August 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

The FCC finally took action against Comcast for its discriminatory network management practices that blocked its internet customers BitTorrent file-sharing traffic. However, while it s good to see the FCC action, it s still a mixed decision. Podcast/Download: mediageek 8 Aug. 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

The Sirius/XM satellite radio merger was finally approved by the FCC, providing a bare few gimmies for the public interest after months of lobbying and waiting. But the story behind the last-minute tie-breaking vote has to do with both companies history of pirate operations. DIYmedia s John Anderson has be tracking the story for years now and fill us in on the details. Download/Podcast: mediageek 1 August 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

This week an encore edition from March: Andrew O’Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio. Download/Podcast: mediageek 25 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 it. Listen/Podcast: mediageek 18 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 4 July 2008 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 expert John Anderson recently spoke at a radio conference in Budapest, Hungary and tells us more about the role of digital radio on the continent. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-06-20 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 more on this week’s show. Download/podcast: mediageek 2008-06-13 broadcast quality mp3 Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 they re participating in the Whitney Biennial. In part one of my interview, NPR s Lee Montgomery tells us about Neighborhood Public Radio, its origins and what they re doing. Download/Podcast mediageek 2008-05-23 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 about the importance of understanding media policy and regulation and what he thinks the most important issues are right now. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-05-16 broadcast quality mp3 Go get Adobe Flash Player!

A little FOIA request made by a northern California student newspaper reveals how the FCC builds a case against suspected pirate broadcasters. I review that curious information, along with other news updates. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-05-09 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

The House Commerce Committee may hold a public hearing on how Chairman Martin is running things at the FCC, while the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously votes to disapprove the Commission s party-line vote to all but dissolve the cross-ownership ban. I also discuss NPR s recent ludicrous comments to the FCC opposing protections for low-power FM stations. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-05-02 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

Hot on the heels of the FCC s Stanford hearing on broadband network management practices, the Senate Commerce Committee had its own hearing on the issue, with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in the spotlight to explain how the Commission will guarantee a free and open internet. We ll listen to some of Martin s comments, and the grilling he received from key Senators. We ll also listen to an excerpt from Prof. Larry Lessig s excellent presentation on net neutrality that he gave at the Stanford hearing. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-04-25 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

On April 17 the FCC took another stab at holding a public hearing on broadband network management practices, aka Network Neutrality. This one was arguably more successful than the first Harvard one in Feb., if for no other reason than Comcast didn t hire people to take seats away from interested members of the public. On this edition of the show we listen to some highlights from the expert testimony. We also hear a little bit of Tim Robbins speaking truth to the NAB. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-04-18 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

A news wrap-up this week: Comcast makes nice with BitTorrent and Chairman Martin wants to nix Skype s petition for open wireless. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-04-04 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

The FCC just completed a set of auctions for radio frequency spectrum that will soon be vacated when analog TV goes dark in 2009. Spectrum is the valuable real estate for wireless communications, so the outcome of this auction will have significant long-lasting implications for the future of the internet, broadband and our ability to communicate freely. Craig Aaron, communications director for Free Press, helps break down what happened and what it means. Download/Podcast mediageek 2008-03-28 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-03-28 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

Andrew O Baoill joins me for an update on how the Irish state broadcaster is making waves with long wave and a discussion on his research about how new technologies are affecting community radio. Download/Podcast mediageek 2008-03-21 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-03-21 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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 more on this week s show. Download/Podcast: mediageek 2008-03-14 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-03-14 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

It s pledge drive time at home station WEFT, which means guest John Anderson and I go a little more freeform than usual, assisted by WEFT station manager Mick Woolf. We spare you the hard-sell pledge pitches, and do get to discuss the Justice Dept s push to get the Supreme Court to rule on indecency and why it s so important to understand spectrum when looking at broadcast policy. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2008-02-22 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-02-22 broadcast quality ogg voribs Go get Adobe Flash Player!

This past week was declared Open Internet Week by a coalition of citizens, public interest groups, tech companies, academics and activists, highlighted by the introduction of the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008” (HR 5353). On this edition of the program we hear excerpts from two nationwide press conference calls outlining why and how Network Neutrality will be pushed to the top of the regulatory and legislative agenda this year. We also hear BitTorrent s Eric Klinker explain how the technology the company is developing to better manage the traffic created by its commercial applications will also be extended to its open source protocol. Podcast/Download mediageek 2008-02-15 broadcast quality mp3 mediageek 2008-02-15 broadcast quality ogg vorbis Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!

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This week is a big news wrap-up, first looking at a new regulation aimed at controlling media ownership concentration in Canada. Then I review what s at stake with the internet and net neutrality in 2008, which I think is going to be a big year in determining the future of independent media and communication on the internet. Podcast/Download: mediageek 2007-01-18 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: Go get Adobe Flash Player!