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Tracking the Payback: Media Ownership
The Center for Responsive Politics has compiled a special feature section on communications and media industry-related political money-spending. Highly informative.

Well Connected
The Center for Public Integrity's fine archive of research into the media industry's massaging of officials in Washington.

Paragon Media Strategies: Radio Index
See the "Research Reading Room" link for some interesting reports on audience trends in the radio industry straight from a full-service consultant.

Recut, Reframe, Recycle
American University's School of Communication studies the use of fair use, now and in the future - and how it appears to be being resuscitated online. (December 2007)

Be the Media! Historic Filing for Noncommercial Radio Licenses
Pacifica Radio Network story on how community radio organizers prepared for the great Filing Window of 2007. (10/25/07)

HD Radio vs. Internet Radio - Which is Radio's Future?
A Bridge Ratings report says IP-based datacasting is kicking HD's ass. (8/8/07)

The Art of Spectrum Lobbying
New America Foundation report details how major telecommunications and media companies have swindled billions of dollars' worth of public airwaves for pennies - and continue to do so. (7/16/07)

Spectrum Policy Wonderland
The New America Foundation's J.H. Snider puts forth a proposition for a new paradigm on spectrum regulatory policy. (10/3/06)

The Employment and Wage Effects of Radio Consolidation
The Future of Music Coalition empirically proves how broadcast professionals get shafted when station ownership concentrates. (8/9/06)

FCC Maps of LPFM and Translator Station Coverage
Covers the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. (6/28/06)

Strength in numbers? Public Participation in the media ownership proceeding at the Federal Communications Commission
As presented at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2005: e-activism has a place, but it's not blooming democracy. (8/31/05)

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Tell-all documentary explores the propaganda model at work masquerading as "news." (July 2004)

How Public is Public Radio?
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting conducts a guest analysis of NPR, putting the lie to the "P." (June 2004)

Radio Revolution
Policy projections from the New America Foundation on "the coming age of unlicensed wireless." (June 2004)

Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists
Report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press shows economic tensions are degrading newsrooms nationwide. (5/23/04)

Clear Channel's Practices Show What's Wrong with Media Policies
A report commissioned by the AFL-CIO and several member unions charges the company with "cost-cutting measures that lead to homogenized news and entertainment—and in some cases, even endanger public safety." Report available from this page in .pdf format. (1/30/04)

Radio Revolution
"The Coming of Unlicensed Wireless"; A New America Foundation report. (12/15/03)

Big Radio Rules in Small Markets
The Center for Public Integrity does it again, documenting the dominance of major radio companies in suburban areas. You can check your own market ownership with a handy online tool, too. (10/1/03)

Preparing for the Impending Spectrum War
Legal analysis of the FCC's regulatory future prepared by a member of a major D.C. telecom law firm. (1/15/03)

Public Opinion, Legal Principles and Economic Analysis Support Media Ownership Rules
The Consumer Federation of America, in conjunction with 30 other public interest groups, have filed comments with the FCC in favor of maintaining ownership caps. You can download a copy of their report (.PDF format) from this page. (12/16/02)

Radio Deregulation: Has it Served Citizens and Musicians?
Future of Music Coalition study of consolidation in the broadcast industry paints a dire picture for diversity on the airwaves. (Nov. 18, 2002)

U.S. Capitalism and the Public Interest (pdf)
Study by the Consumer Federation of America showing that the hyper-loose regulatory strategy of the FCC means bad things for you and me. (Aug. 27, 2002)

The FCC’s newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule: an analysis
Study from the Economic Policy Institute argues for the protection of the FCC's cross-ownership restrictions; download the entire report in .PDF format. (March 2002)

Legislators v. Regulators: The Case of Low Power FM Radio
A joint working paper by the American Enterprise and Brookings Institutes expounds largely on the battle that ensued between Congress and the FCC. (Feb. 2002)

"May I Speak With the DJ?"
"Industry Consolidation, Computer Technologies, and Their Impact on Radio in the Late 1990s: A Case Study" - Two from the University of Arkansas document the loss of localism in the radio industry. As published in the American Communication Journal. (June 2000)


A Brief History of 10-Watt Noncommercial Educational FM Radio Stations
1995 paper to the fall convention of College Media Advisers.

An Analysis of Effects of Consolidation on Radio Industry
Senior thesis was done in 1999 at Gannon University.

Auctioning The Airwaves
An in-depth series of articles from George Gilder, originally printed in Forbes.

Using Market-Based Spectrum Policy to Promote the Public Interest
This internal and informal FCC paper laid the foundation for how the agency would interpret and implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (January 1997)

What's Local About Local Broadcasting?
The Media Access Project and Benton Foundation see a wasteland
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Where Do We Go From Here?
"The FCC Auctions and the Future of Radio Spectrum Management," from the Congressional Budget Office.

With Friends Like These
Cato Institute treatise on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and community radio.