FCC Watch: Enforcement Tempo Quickens

The New York office has been spending a lot of time in New Jersey, perhaps in response to the state’s attempt to assert enforcement jurisdiction over the airwaves. (Meanwhile, in Florida, the FCC’s busy busting construction crane operators cursing on two-way radio frequencies licensed to a hospital.)
Out west, Berkeley Liberation Radio got another visit and the Portland Radio Authority is off the air after same. Free Radio Santa Cruz‘s Skidmark Bob did a long interview with BLR volunteer Gerald Smith, where the connection between the current station its evolution from roots in Free Radio Berkeley is vividly described. Field agents have also paid respects to stations in Nevada and New Mexico. Continue reading “FCC Watch: Enforcement Tempo Quickens”

Iron Action Radio Does Street Theatre?

Nyack’s full-on microbroadcast maven, DJ Johnny Silver, has announced “My so called Life on the Radio” – “i walk around Nyack in total disquise, and visit the diffrent establishments, and do ‘real radio’ getting myself in diffrent situations that are stimulating and fun for listeners….Each disquise will be a totally different radio character, and have a totally different personality.” Radio doesn’t get much more local than that.
There’s already been discussion about whether Silver is crazy; I believe this pretty much confirms it, in a most excellent way. Did I mention this “My so called Life on the Radio” will be done live? Apparently Thursdays are Iron Action’s “Remote Broadcast Night,” and this will be one of the rotating summer programs.