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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.
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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