This Week in Radio News: Gonçalo F. Cardoso: Feb 13, 2016

The show surveys the current Republican candidates for president about their internet policy, especially broadband access and privacy issues. Then tune in Gonçalo F. Cardoso's "A Study into 21st Centu...

This Week in Radio News: Bob and Ray: Feb 06, 2016

The radio comedy team of Bob and Ray is featured, as Bob Elliott died Feb. 2. The duo were known for 40 years on the radio with a very dry humor. Also, the week's radio headlines are explored.

This Week in Radio News: Tom Wheeler: Jan 30, 2016

This week tune in Federal Communications Commissioner Tom Wheeler, and his press conference following the FCC's January 28 Open Meeting. Also, new transmission art from Daniel Thomas, and a new song f...

This Week in Radio News: Art's Birthday: Jan 23, 2016

First, the headlines: NOAA tests new voice of weather radio; Live365 streaming service closes; European courts may be striking down mass surveillance; Democratic candidates talk encryption; NPR and NA...

This Week in Radio News: David Bowie: Jan 16, 2016

After the rock icon's death, the show tunes in David Bowie's songs about radio ("TVC15," "DJ," "Starman") and listen to an interview with Bowie from MTV in 1983, when he challenged the channel for not...

This Week in Radio News: Steve Pierce: Jan 09, 2016

Tune in a talk with Steve Pierce from The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY, discussing how they are putting WOOC-LP on the air, one of thousands of low-power stations beginning broadcasting...

This Week in Radio News: 2015 Year-End Show: Dec 26, 2015

This Week in Radio News: Erykah Badu, Tom Wheeler: Dec 19, 2015

First, the headlines from the week in radio waves: FCC pirate radio enforcement at lowest level since 2004; FAA sets registration policy for radio-controlled drones; Howard Stern sticks with satellite...

This Week in Radio News: Encyrption: Dec 12, 2015

This show focuses on encryption and privacy. After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Colorado Springs, and San Bernadino legislators are now moving to roll back privacy and increase surveillance...

This Week in Radio News: Amanda Dawn Christie: Dec 05, 2015

Radio headlines including: Military moving to drones that jam and hack; Court punts again on Prometheus case; FAA panel has some ideas for registering radio-controlled drones; Israel shuts down three...

This Week in Radio News: The Blimp: Oct 31, 2015

A military surveillance blimp comes unmoored in Maryland, and floats for three hours over Pennslyvania wreaking havoc as it goes. That sounds like the script of some Orson Welles radio drama, but it w...

This Week in Radio News: Radio-Controlled Drones: Oct 24, 2015

More TV and radio stations in U.S.; NPR's audience grows older; 15 percent of Americans don't use internet; Tech companies against Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act; U.S. government to register ra...

This Week in Radio News: Rimas K. Simaitis: Oct 17, 2015

California-based radio artist Rimas K. Simaitis discusses two new exhibitions -- one in California, one in Indiana, one with a sculpted radio, and another tuning in longwaves. Also tune in headlines a...

This Week in Radio News: Radio Hoaxes: Oct 10, 2015

Radio headlines this week include: DC thinks FM radio can save AM radio; Snowden says U.S. has not offered any plea deals; BBC is looking for radio theater scripts; FCC considers Citizens Broadband Ra...

This Week in Radio News: Henry Jacobs: Oct 03, 2015

This week we listen to a little of the life of Henry Jacobs (October 9, 1924 - September 25, 2015), who was an American sound artist and humorist. Known for his early electronic collages of tapes, som...

This Week in Radio News: Sealand: Sep 26, 2015

First radio news headlines about radio waves. Then a featured secret history of Sealand, a military outpost off the coast of Britian in World War II later the site of pirate radio, kidnapping, and dec...

This Week in Radio News: Mendi and Keith Obadike: Sep 19, 2015

Mendi and Keith Obadike have a show called "Numbers Station [Furtive Movements]," at the Ryan Lee Gallery in New York City through Oct. 10. Host Tom Roe interviews them about how they are using NYC po...

This Week in Radio News: Viv Corringham, Donald Trump: Sep 05, 2015

Viv Corringham describes her "Shadow Walks" and Donald Trump reviews "Citizen Kane" on "This Week in Radio News." The show tracks headlines and stories about radio waves, including all parts of the sp...

This Week in Radio News: Derek Piotr: Jul 18, 2015

This Week in Radio News: Lukas Derycke: Jul 11, 2015

Radio news about radio waves. This week, a featured interview with Belgium radio artist, visiting Wave Farm with radio artist Gregory Whitehead. Also stories about a bill in Washington D.C. that would...

This Week in Radio News: 20150627: Jun 27, 2015

Firesign Theatre founding member Phil Austin, the voice of Nick Danger, died at 74 this week. Also tune in reports about pirate radio in Europe and the United States, brain wave discoveries, an interv...

This Week in Radio News: Bill Pasternak: Jun 20, 2015

Radio headlines include the FCC scaling back enforcement cuts after members of Congress in New York ask for more enforcement; also Michael Hayden comments before and after the USA Freedom Act; the FCC...

This Week in Radio News: 20150613: Jun 13, 2015

FCC's net neutrality rules take effect as legal action looms; Stingrays invade England; FCC creates unlicensed frequency space; Cell phone industry sues Berkeley over EMF warning law; Citizens United...

Anna Friz, Martin Blank: May 30, 2015

Weekly summary of radio news about radio waves with reports about the few female country music stars you hear on the radio; Stingrays getting cell phone info without a warrant; 'Amateur Radio Newsline...

This Week in Radio News: Mysterious Sounds: May 16, 2015

This Week in Radio News: Janek Shaefer: May 09, 2015

Radio news about radio waves, including these headlines: NSA Phone Data Collection Ruled Illegal; Podcasting Has a Moment in the Mainstream; ACLU apps for recording the police; Rural Broadband; and AT...

This Week in Radio News: 20150502: May 02, 2015

This Week in Radio News: Ben Mirin: Apr 25, 2015

Radio news about radio waves. This week low-power FM gets a proposal for a power boost; David Petraeus gets a very different sentence then other leakers; the U.S. House passes a cybersecurity bill and...

This Week in Radio News: 20150418: Apr 18, 2015

Headlines this week include: Net neutrality rules challenged in Congress, and the courts; KHIG marijuana radio turns on in Colorado Springs; Voice of America, Pacifica changes; FCC's AM Radio Revitili...

This Week in Radio News: 20150411: Apr 11, 2015

"This Week in Radio News" listens to three stories this week. First, listen back to the radio career of Stan Freberg, who passed away this week. Wikipedia reports Freberg was, "an American author, rec...

This Week in Radio News: 20150404: Apr 04, 2015

Features a radio improvisation from Squetti (Artur Matamoro Vidal on alto saxophone, objects, radio; Maria Papadomanolaki on transmitters and electronics; and Yiorgis Sakelariou on electric guitar), p...

This Week in Radio News: Norman Stockwell: Mar 28, 2015

Radio news about radio waves, including reports about radio performance royalties; a very large FCC fine for indecency; the ShotSpotter program with open mics in several U.S. cities; Facebook vs. the...

This Week in Radio News: 20150321: Mar 21, 2015

This week's radio news includes an FCC auction of FM frequencies this summer; the costs of pirate radio and streaming apps; FCC Chair Wheeler testifies at oversight hearing; FCC Enforcement Bureau cut...

This Week in Radio News: 20150314: Mar 14, 2015

Radio news about radio waves. Reports about the FCC's action against Optic Internet Protocol, Inc. for slamming and cramming, and their net neutrality ruling; the "Blurred Lines" verdict; presidential...

This Week in Radio News: 20150307: Mar 07, 2015

Radio news about radio waves. Reports about response from critics of net neutrality, and what may be the next battle over internet freedom, the Trans-Pacific Partnership; public officials not retainin...

Turn On the News: 20120616 Pt. 1: Jun 16, 2012

Radio news headlines about how six cows wandering on a farmer's land led to a radio-controlled drone to be circling overhead in North Dakota, plus a look ahead to "Future of Video" and an FCC oversigh...

Turn On the News: 20120616 Pt. 2: Jun 16, 2012

Radio news headlines about how six cows wandering on a farmer's land led to a radio-controlled drone to be circling overhead in North Dakota, plus a look ahead to "Future of Video" and an FCC oversigh...

Turn On the News: 20120615: Jun 15, 2012

Radio news headlines about how six cows wandering on a farmer's land led to a radio-controlled drone to be circling overhead in North Dakota, plus a look ahead to "Future of Video" and an FCC oversigh...

Turn On the News: 20120614: Jun 14, 2012

Radio show about radio, opens with radio headlines about latest efforts to block TV broadcasters putting their public (paper) files online. Plus news from the FCC, Vatican shortwave, and about cell ph...

Turn On the News: 20120612: Jun 12, 2012

A radio show about radio opens with radio news headlines about holographic lawsuits, traveling transmissions, an emergency alert system coming to cell phones in the United States, and Lifehacker's Top...

Turn On the News: 20120609 Pt. 1: Jun 09, 2012

Weekly radio show about radio, with radio art, radio news, media news, sound art, and more. This show features Videofreex, a Catskills-based video collective in the 1970s who created "Lanesville TV,"...

Turn On the News: 20120609 Pt. 2: Jun 09, 2012

Weekly radio show about radio, with radio art, radio news, media news, sound art, and more. This show features Videofreex, a Catskills-based video collective in the 1970s who created "Lanesville TV,"...

Turn On the News: 20120608: Jun 08, 2012

Radio show about radio, with headlines about efforts to quash FCC regulation to put broadcasters open public files online; efforts to quash internet access in Ethiopia; and efforts to quash rural broa...

Turn On the News: 20120607: Jun 07, 2012

Daily radio show about radio first travels to the U.S. House of Representatives, where the Commerce Deptarment's Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing Wed., June 6, on “The Futu...

Turn On the News: 20120606: Jun 06, 2012

Radio headlines include a report from Free Speech Radio News about cyberwarfare in Syria, as the state targets protesters online there. Then we feature the Videofreex, a pirate television video collec...

Turn On the News: 20120605: Jun 05, 2012

Radio headlines about the government being able to shut down wireless communications in an emergency, or just during a political protest, another push for a "cyber security" bill in the U.S. Congress,...

Turn On the News: 20120602 part one: Jun 02, 2012

Part one of two, weekend-edition of "Turn On the News."

Turn On the News: 20120602 part two: Jun 02, 2012

Weekly radio art news show.

Turn On the News: 20120601: Jun 01, 2012

Daily show about radio, looks at radio art, radio news, media news, and sound art. Radio headlines about cyber security in Congress, 2600's 25th anniversary, and the maturation of the podcast. A final...

Turn On the News: 20120531: May 31, 2012

Daily show about radio art, radio news, media news, sound art, and more. Radio headlines start the show, with news from Congress, where there are efforts to reform the Federal Communications Commissio...