GET THE DVD
Available now on Amazon with DVD Extras. ~ Pirate Radio USA is a feature length digital documentary about the underground world of illegal radio in America, where people play what they want and say what they want
Davis Film Festival
Fifth Annual Davis Film Festival, April 3-5, 2008. www.davisfilmfest.org Friday, April 4th Fundraiser for KDRT low power radio station
FCC Hearing
FCC Hearings happened here in Seattle Friday–and wow, what a turnout! Over 800 people showed up, packing the hall, staying till after midnight to near uniformly testify against FCC plans to lift the media cross ownership ban. FCC Councilman Michael Copps rocked the house, bemoaning the lack of hearing notice and hip checking FCC Chairman...
Critics Turn Out to Protest Media Consolidation
From Washington Post, via Free Press By Frank Ahrens Even though the media landscape has changed radically since the last time the Federal Communications Commission tried to alter its media-ownership rules, a hearing at the FCC yesterday showed that the debate remains as heated as ever. A range of social, political and consumer groups that...
FCC to announce final media ownership hearing in Seattle
Source: reclaimthemedia.org FCC Chairman Kevin Martin plans to hold the last of six official public hearings on media ownership rules in Seattle, before rushing the agency’s 18-month long consideration of the rules to a fast-tracked conclusion by mid-December. The hearing will be the only chance for Northwest residents to weigh in on proposals that would...
Senate Committee Votes to Expand Low Power FM Radio!
hannahjs(at)prometheusradio.org The United States Senate Commerce Committee voted this afternoon to substantially expand the number of community media outlets in the United States. In a consensus vote, the Committee moved to report Senate Bill 1675, the Local Community Radio Act of 2007, to the full Senate — and opened the door for thousands of new...
Pirate Radio Is Citizen Media
When we started out as little radio pirates back in 1996 Big Media looked pretty big already (check this out in the first few minutes of Pirate Radio USA for free @ www.bside.com) but now it’s even bigger. In 2007, just NINE media conglomerates– Disney, CBS, Time Warner, News Corp, Bertelsmann AG, Viacom, General Electric...
Austin Chronicle Review – 10/20/2006
From http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A412299 The Image Formed Previewing the 12th Austin Film Festival BY BELINDA ACOSTA Pirate Radio USA D: Jeff Pearson, Mary Jones Driven by the ingenuity that DIY conditions demand, this subversively cheery documentary gives an A-to-Z primer on low-power radio broadcasting. But as the filmmakers would readily admit, they are not out merely to...
Alarm Review – 6/19/2007
From Alarm Press: Those interested in fighting for their right to microbroadcast over the radio airwaves should take some pointers from Frank Luntz. The unfortunately named Luntz is ironically the Republican political consultant responsible for so skillfully massaging “estate tax” into “death tax,” “oil drilling” into “energy exploration,” and “global warming” into “climate change.” The...
Mediageek Radio Interview – 11/25/05
Listen to the radio interview with Jeff and Mary here. Pirate Radio USA is a new documentary by DJ Him and DJ Her, who both have experiences in the Seattle pirate scene going back more than seven years. In this week’s feature interview, DJs Her and Him tell us about their experiences in unlicensed broadcasting,...
