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FCC
Report on the Economic Impact of LPFM (PDF)
Full document, complete with methodology and supporting data. (1/5/12)
Publicly
Owned Broadband Networks: Averting the Looming Broadband Monopoly
The Institute for Self-Reliance compiles information on the national movement
away from broadband via cable and phone companies. (March 2011)
The
Looming Cable Monopoly
The Yale Law and Policy Review publishes a thought-provoking piece from
Susan Crawford about the oligopoly of cable systems and their effect on the provision
of broadband Internet access. (Dec. 2010)
Terrestrial
Radio's Run Through the New Media Gauntlet
Bridge Ratings report shows broadcast radio continues to slip relative to alternative
audio content distributors. (10/20/10)
Bridge
Ratings: 2009 Competitive Media Usage Overview Update
Things do not look good for terrestrial radio; HD's barely a blip. (12/7/09)
Low
Power Radio: Lost Opportunity or Success on the Dial?
A report from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights questions the viability
of the LPFM service, eight years on. (April 2009)
FOIA:
FCC Warrantless Searches
The Electronic Frontier Foundation uncovers the policy behind field agents' abilities
to actually inspect private radio equipment. (2009)
Digital
Radio Working Group Interim Report
UK broadcast regulators wonder how long it will really take before digital-only
broadcasting becomes the norm. The verdict: ask again in about 10 years. (June
2008)
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
What's
Local About Local Broadcasting?
The Media Access Project
and Benton Foundation see a wasteland.
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.
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