AltWeeklies Wire
Is Pirate Radio Finally Ready To Go Legit?new
Caught between corporate interests and increasingly populist sentiments, the FCC is about to make an offer that would-be pirates may not be able to refuse.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
10-09-2013 |
Media
South Carolina's Broadband: How Officials Quietly Privatized a Key State Assetnew
To its supporters, auctioning off the state's broadband spectrum has meant snaring millions of much-needed dollars for the state's ailing coffers. But opponents say the deal privatizes the public trust and will deepen the state's massive digital divide.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
11-19-2009 |
Media
Kill Your Antennanew
The DTV transition doesn't affect you. And we shouldn't be doing it anyway -- we should get all the spectrum back from the TV companies and use it to extend internet access to everyone.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
01-14-2009 |
Media
Supreme Court Watch: FOX to FCC -- WTF?new
In the case before the Court on Election Day, FCC v. Fox Television Stations, five different networks stood up to the Federal Communications Commission, whose tightening of profanity regulations in recent years has been compared to "a Victorian crusade" by former officials of the FCC itself.
San Antonio Current |
Martha B. Lackritz |
11-14-2008 |
Media
What's the Fuss Over the Fairness Doctrine Really About?new
The conviction that Obama's win and Democratic gains in Congress mean the impending resurrection of Fairness Doctrine, a defunct policy aimed at creating a balance in broadcasting -- is tormenting both the wing nuts and conservatism's grownups.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
11-13-2008 |
Media
Don't Believe the Digital TV Hypenew
The transition to digital was supposed to revolutionize free TV. So what's with the high-def reruns?
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
10-09-2008 |
Media
Nipple? We Don't See No Stinkin' Nipplenew
The most shocking thing about the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl was its brevity. And yet somehow in that split second, an America that was still reeling from the realization that it was not invincible, that it too could be attacked, found a way to fight back. At what exactly we were never quite sure. But, boy oh boy, did it ever cause a bustle in our collective hedgerow.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
07-23-2008 |
Media
Net Neutrality: World War Webnew
The era of an open, egalitarian and transparent internet could soon come to a screeching halt in America -- unless we fight back.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Big Media's Big Giftnew
How the FCC is helping media fat cats get more power over what you know.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
11-27-2007 |
Media
The FCC's Media Malicenew
Chairman Kevin Martin wants to fast-track relaxing media ownership rules so that a company could own TV and radio stations -- and a newspaper -- in the same market.
Kevin Martin, from N.C. to the FCCnew
Unlike his predecessor as FCC chairman, Michael Powell, Martin is not an anti-regulation ideologue in lockstep with Republicans and telecom companies.
FCC Commish Stumps for Indy Medianew
FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein joins Senator Bernie Sanders to promote tighter restrictions on media consolidation.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
02-16-2007 |
Media
Astrodome Radio Station Silencednew
As activist James Ellinger imagined it, a community radio station would have helped reunite family members and link evacuees to jobs, schools and health care.
Houston Press |
Todd Spivak |
09-21-2005 |
Media
Build Your TV!new
As the FCC and the entertainment biz get ready to end home recording as we know it, a bunch of radical geeks are working on a solution or two.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-02-2005 |
Media
Citadel Stations Circumcise Howard Sternnew
Since Howard Stern announced he'll move to Sirius Satellite Radio as of Jan. 1, 2006, Citadel radio stations have been deleting words from his syndicated morning-drive show and shutting off his broadcasts early, sometimes in mid-sentence.
Syracuse New Times |
Bill DeLapp |
12-09-2004 |
Media
