Wave Farm Newsroom
The Wave Farm Newsroom includes news about all sorts of radio waves from around the world. The page also archives Wave Farm's organizational monthly email announcements. The WGXC Newsroom features extensive daily community news specific to New York's Upper Hudson Valley region.
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Monday
Dec
10
6:10 am
Sunday
Dec
09
4:58 am
Who needs LPFM? - Why not just expand the FM dial?
From David Oxenford in Broadcast Law Blog:At last Tuesday's FCC meeting, the Commission adopted a controversial order, over the objection of two Commissioners, that could limit the processing of some...
Friday
Dec
07
9:29 pm
R.I.P. Karlheinz Stockhausen
The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died Wednesday, December 5 at his home in Germany at age 79. He composed 362 individually performable works, including his 1966 "Telemusik," an early influential tra...
Monday
Dec
03
9:31 pm
Microwave beam stops cars dead
From Tracy Staedter in Discovery News:The same microwave radiation that reheats pizza can be used to fry the electrical systems in cars, stopping them dead in their tracks. Emitted from a rooftop devi...
Sunday
Dec
02
5:41 am
Barbed-wire tree
From Matt Bua's stay last spring creating "Sing Sun Room" at free103point9's Wave Farm.
Friday
Nov
30
5:09 am
OPEN CALL: Radio Killed The Video Star
Laboratorio 060 is a collective based in Mexico City. As part of an exhibition of this group at the Cue Foundation in New York, the group is launching a worldwide call for collaborations for a musical...
Thursday
Nov
29
5:55 am
free103point9 Online Radio November Top 40
free103point9 Top 40 for November 20071. Stars Like Fleas, The Ken Burns Effect (Talitres)2. David Watson, Fingering an Idea (XI Records)3. The Kevin Frenette 4, Connections (Fuller Street Music)Kevin...
Wednesday
Nov
28
5:36 pm
FCC meeting adopts rules favoring LPFM, restricting translator applications, and possibly impeding full service FM station upgrades
From David Oxenford in Broadcast Law Blog:In an unusually contentious FCC meeting, the FCC adopted rules that promote Low Power FM ("LPFM") stations seemingly to the detriment of FM translators and im...
Tuesday
Nov
27
11:20 pm
Statement of the Prometheus Radio Project on announcement of impending FCC notice on LPFM radio
From Prometheus Radio Project:On Tuesday, November 20, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it was ready to pass a set of provisions amending the rules that govern the low power FM rad...
Tuesday
Nov
27
6:34 am
Lecture to explore transmission art
From Westchester.com:The Purchase College New Media program and the Neuberger Museum of Art are co-sponsoring a lecture by Tianna Kennedy and Tom Roe, founders of free103point9, a non-profit arts orga...
Monday
Nov
26
2:50 am
Hams gain new LF band
From Amateur Radio Newsline:Some good news and one big loss for ham radio at the now concluded World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Jeramy Boot, G4NJH, of the GB2RS News Servic...
Saturday
Nov
24
10:09 pm
Noises Off: A director's process
From George Hunka in Superfluities Redux:....All this is a roundabout way of saying that, as part of my unusual practice these days of writing for web sites other than my own, a report of my visit to...
Thursday
Nov
22
9:09 pm
Why internet radio in cars is coming sooner than you think
From Oribitcast:When Audi showed off the Cross Cabriolet Quattro concept car at the Los Angeles Motor Show, one of the key features was a prototype of streaming internet radio direct to the car. It's...
Thursday
Nov
22
2:41 am
OPEN CALL: Rudy Giuliani 9/11 remix contest
Click here for over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh's, courtesy of America's mayor, [Rudy Giuliani]. Your mission from WFMU: turn some or all of them into music, to be reposted on WFMU'...
Wednesday
Nov
21
12:50 am
Briefing dates set on internet radio royalty court appeal
From David Oxenford in Broadcast Law Blog:The US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia has set the briefing dates on the appeal filed by various webcasting groups seeking review of the decision...
Monday
Nov
19
9:20 pm
German radio broadcasts to Ethiopia “jammed” according to hobbyists
From Medianetwork blog:Shortwave radio hobbyists have reported deliberate interference to the Amharic-language transmissions of Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), beamed to Ethi...
Monday
Nov
19
4:54 am
LPFM and the fight for community radio
From Liz Berg in WFMU Beware of the Blog:Ever since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed, the FCC has been required to periodically review the country's broadcast ownership rules. For those w...
Saturday
Nov
17
1:55 am
Saturday
Nov
17
1:49 am
Saakashvili regime in Georgia using sonic blasters on civilians?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThThdEmswU&rel=1]From Xeni Jardin in boing boing:This English-language footage from Russia Today shows riot police rolling through the streets of Tblisi in...
Wednesday
Nov
14
4:34 am
FCC enforcement actions in New York City
Seems like the Federal Communications Commission is in the midst of one of its annual sweeps of New York City-based pirate radio operators. Reports here and here (probably the same source, actually, a...