Fifth Annual Davis Film Festival, April 3-5, 2008. www.davisfilmfest.org Friday, April 4th Fundraiser for KDRT low power radio station
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...