A list of links found
while trolling the 'net, the Schnazz is updated when time permits.
Latest
update: 28 November 2011.
A Pocket Guide To What
Happens Now That Network Neutrality Rules Are Officially Published
Harold Feld explains the real-world implications of the FCC's milquetoast
efforts on the data discrimination front. (Sept. 23)
Asymmetric IBOC Permission
Process Could Be Eased
The FCC seems predisposed to allow FM-HD broadcasters to experiment
with pumping up their digital power levels. (Nov. 1)
AT&T/T-Mobile
Susan Crawford provides an eloquent argument as to why the merger should
not be allowed. (Aug. 31)
Audio of FASTROAD SFN
FM HD Radio Tests Released
This is part of an iBiquity/NAB push for FCC authorization of "booster
stations" for FM-HD signals. (Nov. 2)
Barbershop Punk
Website for a compelling documentary on the need for network neutrality.
(2011)
Beautiful Trouble
An activist/prankster toolbox: mental warfare tactics for the next
revolution.
Can an algorithm be
wrong? Twitter Trends, the specter of censorship, and our faith in
the algorithms around us
A well-researched examination of how Twitter Trends work - it's not
like you think it does. (Oct. 19)
Can FCC Open LPFM Window
by Summer 2012?
It's anyone's guess, really, but proponents and the agency would
like to make it so. (Sept. 21)
Clear Channel Cuts D.J.'s
Across the Country
Major bloodletting in small to medium-sized markets. (Oct. 27)
Clear Channel Names
Pittman as Its Chief
The founder of MTV takes the reins to give the media conglomerate
a new digital direction. (Oct. 2)
Clear Channel Revenue
Up in Q3
Even so, the broadcast behemoth laid off hundreds of on-air talent.
(Nov. 1)
Deadlines Set for Comments on Proposed HD Radio Tweak
The FCC has the FM-HD power-maintenance rules on the fast track. (Nov.
28)
Despite Free Smartphone
Offer, FCC Kills FM Translator
"Can't hear your favorite station over the air anymore due to interference?
Listen on your phone!" Fortunately, the agency considers this a false
equivalence. (Oct. 21)
DJ Lobsterdust
Prolific maker of mashups, with a focus on fame-of-the-moment artists.
DJ Spooky That Subliminal
Kid - Remix Culture
Lecture at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill on the
"future and meaning of remix culture." (2/8/08)
DoJ Says "No" To Ma
Cell: Here's What Happens Next (and Why it's All Over But The AT&T
Screaming)
Harold Feld explains why an antitrust merger review is the first
kiss od death to the corporate marriage of AT&T and T-Mobile. (Aug.
31)
Dutch
Commitment to DAB+
Public and commercial broadcasters were lukewarm to the original
DAB technology; will an improved variant do the trick? (Nov. 21)
Eluterio Lebron receives
$15,000 NAL
For unlicensed operation in Guayama, Puerto Rico. (9/21/11)
FCC Issues $10,000 Forfeiture
Order to Pirate Cat Radio Founder
The nuts and bolts of Daniel Roberts' latest dust-up with the FCC.
(Oct. 26)
Finding Free Radio
Freak Radio Santa Cruz takes a fall break as it scouts for a new broadcast
location (the station has since returned to the air). (Sept. 28)
Ford begs Broadcasters:
"Please install our wonderful HD Radio product."
The last thing drivers need to be doing behind the wheel is looking
at album art. (Sept. 14)
Free Radio Santa Cruz
looking for new home
After being displaced when the FCC warned its transmitter-host (it
has since found a new broadcast location). (Sept. 9)
Fritzner Lindor fined
$300
Reduced from $15,000 after demonstrating an inability to pay for
unlicensed broadcasts in Orange Park, Florida. (9/20/11)
Good News/Bad News for
FM Translator Licensees
The FCC signals that "hopping" a translator station large distances
to provide a rimshot signal into major markets is now frowned upon.
(Sept. 5)
HD Radio Alliance's
Advertising Presence On Radio Fading
What happens to radio's digital future if its primary proponents
stop promoting it on their own stations? (Aug. 3)
HD Radio Goes the Way
of the Laserdisc Player
The Tucson Weekly writes a preemptive epitaph for the flawed
technology. (Oct. 6)
He Urges FCC to Address
Satellite-Fed Translators
LPFM advocate and HD critic Chris Maxwell offers a compelling argument
against "satellators." (Sept. 30)
High Stakes for LPFMs
& FM Translators
Radio World summarizes the latest comments from key constituencies
in the ongoing LPFM-expansion rulemaking. (Nov. 9)
Hijacking Radio and
TV Stations?
Using the right Emergency Alert System codes, it's conceivable that
an entire chain of stations could be usurped. (Nov. 14)
iBiquity Disputes Report
That Radio Shack Is Exiting the HD Radio Business
Yet there is no evidence to disprove the Shack's reluctance to keep
selling HD receivers. (Aug. 3)
Independent media flourishes
in Benghazi
And the people's radio stations lead the way. (Aug. 3)
Inside the Russian Short
Wave Radio Enigma
The strange tale of UVB-76 and its cryptic broadcasts. (Sept. 27)
Internet Archive: A*C*E
Bulletins
Back issues of this important shortwave pirate newsletter find a
permanent home.
Is HD Radio the Answer
to Radio's Dashboard Challenge?
Mark Ramsey says no. (Sept. 12)
John E. Criteser, Jr.
receives $15,000 NAL
Bumped up for his "willful and repeated" broadcasts in Lake Park,
Florida. (10/21/11)
Lawyer for Pirate Cat
Radio Founder Files Petition for Reconsideration of FCC Fine
The grounds are dubious, but the resistance is welcome. (Nov. 21)
List of Comments Filed
in MM 99-25 LCRA Section 5 Implementation NPRM
REC Networks' handy summary of comments filed regarding LPFM's expansion.
(Sept. 20)
Listeners give digital
radio a poor reception
DAB is effectively panned in Australia. (Sept. 4)
LPFM: A Dream that Never
Died
Hannah Sassaman pens a paean to the service and its hopeful expansion.
(Aug. 8)
LPFM Donated to Illinois
State for Use by College Station
As other colleges shed their student-run stations, this one's going
in the opposite direction. (Sept. 12)
Media Action Center
Campaign designed to engage the public to pressure broadcasters to
operate in the public interest, via content-watchdogging and public
file inspections.
MediaCorp to cut digital
radio programmes on Dec. 1
Bowing to the power of streaming online, Singapore ditches the DAB
protocol. (Nov. 2)
NAB thinks Translators
offer more value than LPFM
This broadcast engineer would beg to differ. (Sept. 12)
New Policy on FM Translator
Moves
But will this have any effect on the backdoor expansion of translator
use by AM and FM-HD broadcasters? (Sept. 2)
NRSC Updates IBOC Standards
To make room for the FM-HD power increase and new datacasting features.
(Sept. 16)
Obama Finally Nominates
Rosenworcel and Pai: Can They Get Confirmed Before the FCC Drops
to 3?
Harold Feld reads the political tea-leaves. (Nov. 2)
Obama's FCC picks likely
to sail through
Backgrounder on the two nominees for Commissioner seats: Jessa Rosenworcel
and Ajit Pai. (Nov. 1)
Neal Davis receives
$10,000 NAL
For unlicensed operation in Fort Lauderdale, FL; includes some FCC
sleuthing regarding the station's online presence. (10/17/11)
The Netherlands plans
a pirate radio crackdown
The Dutch government floats a proposal to streamline enforcement
activity; a sort of Project Etherflits redux. (Aug. 23)
New York State makes
pirate broadcasting a misdemeanor
For what good it'll do, all it has to do is ask Florida and New Jersey.
(Aug. 10)
No Rules, No Community
Radio World
editor Paul McLane gets on his misguided high horse to pooh-pooh pirate radio.
(Aug. 31)
Patrick Michael Ford
fined $10,000
For unlicensed operation in Fort Myers, Florida (8/22/11)
The People's Skype
"A phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy
Movement." Cleverly cool.
Pirate Fines Are Often
Tough to Collect
Radio World uses the phrase "paper tiger" to characterize
the FCC's enforcement efforts. (Nov. 17)
Power Grab
The Isthmus gives preemptive love to the coming expansion
of LPFM. (Nov. 17)
Push Intensifies for
Stations to Implement Artist Experience
HD Radio's latest last gasp: broadcasting album artwork, plus an
effort to get FM-HD receiver chips implemented into smartphones.
(Sept. 20)
Radio #OccupyWallStreet:
A potential end-run around sound permits
Harnessing the power of microbroadcasting to increase the impact
of the people's mic. (Oct. 3)
Radio Power, Inc., Ordered
to Cease Operations of W284BQ
Rare directive from the FCC shuts down an FM translator used as
an HD rebroadcaster that interfered with a full-power station. (10/18/11)
Radio revolution threatened
as analogue sets outsell DABs three to one
The U.K.'s long infatuation with digital radio is not being felt
among the country's listenership. (Jul. 29)
Radio Valencia in the
Mission inside Chez Poulet
A profile of San Francisco's newest microbroadcaster. (Aug. 21)
The Relentless Drive
to Consolidation
How continued cost-cutting in the radio industry is affecting the
technical integrity of broadcast stations. (Sept. 23)
Resurrect Dead
A documentary that explores the mystery of tiled street-art and its
connection to shortwave broadcasting. (2011)
Rick's Pirate Radio
Blog
DX catches from southwest Finland.
Shortwave Pirate Broadcasting
A broadcast engineer questions whether the work/reward ratio is worth
it. (Aug. 27)
Shortwave Pirate Radio
Archive.org cache of full shows from several pirate stations over the
last decade.
Show down twice, a New
York City translator used by Clear Channel tries again
And CCU accuses LPFM broadcasters of "shoehorning" stations onto
a crowded FM dial.... (Oct. 24)
Soderberg.tv
Home of Johan Söderberg, creator of the "Read My Lips" video mashup
series.
Thomas L. Morey fined
$250
Reduced from $10,000 for unlicensed operation in St. Petersburg,
FL. (10/18/11)
Trends in Terrestrial
Broadcasting
Paul Thurst thinks the unthinkable - AM and FM might eventually succumb
to the Internet. (Nov. 11)
Turn Up The Radio: Fostering
Community Media Collaboration
The New America Foundation explores how a local radio station can
be used as an anchor for a wide variety of community media projects.
(8/5/11)
Two different operators
want to move their FM translators to 93.5 in Detroit
The translator-mongering is heating up in a major market, pitting
a religious broadcaster against a commercial one. (Nov. 11)
U.K. Minister: "The
Only Future I Envisage for Radio is Digital"
Brave words in the midst of a struggling digital broadcast transition.
(Nov. 1)
Uncle Sam slaps San
Francisco radio pirate with $10k fine
Ars Technica reports on the career-ending blow to Monkey Man. (Oct.
26)
Underwriting and Low
Power FM: why does the NAB care?
Coverage of the Prometheus Radio Project's survey of LPFM stations,
as well as a look at the non-existent economic "threat" such stations
pose to full-power broadcasters. (Nov. 16)
Uses
of FM Translators Morph Quickly
Radio World explores the increasing use of FM translators
- a secondary broadcast service - as primary stations. (Aug. 4)
What We Won In ACTA
The "trade" agreement will be enacted, but it won't be as draconian
as first proposed. (Oct. 3)
Whisler Fleurinor fined
$500
Reduced from a whopping $20,000 for unlicensed broadcasting in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. (10/20/11)
Willis Cernogg, Jr.
receives $10,000 NAL
For unlicensed broadcasting in the Miami area. (Oct. 25)
Your DJ Ain't No DJ
(He Just Got Laid Off)
Spin recaps the recent mass layoffs at Clear Channel and
Cumulus. (Oct. 28)
Recently updated
resources and links directory sections:
Linkbacks
BradleyStuart.net
"This site encourages resisting corporate globalization."
Engineering Radio
The brilliant Paul Thurst: "When I was 10, I caught the radio bug,
it appears to be terminal."
Hannah Sassaman
"Banned from the National Association of Broadcasters Since 2002."
Keeping the Public in Public Radio
Critical blog of public radio's programming, management and technological
foibles.
Lying
Media Bastards
"Take a good look at the man behind the curtain. Now go kick his ass."
Mediageek
Blog de Paul Riismandel.
The
Perpetual Three-Dot Column
Blog of Jesse Walker.
Radio Paranoia
"Metafiction, gossip, rumors, parenthetical imputations, innuendos,
intimations, illusions, allusions. Reckless radio collages, audio
cut-ups, mashups and deconstructions."
