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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Saturday
May
07
9:34 am
New music on WGXC this week
Radiohead, "Burn The Witch" Radiohead, "Daydreaming"
Wednesday
May
04
10:01 pm
Radio News: Periscope lets broadcasters save streams
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Techcrunch reports that just about the only problem with the Periscope app is that the broadcasts are deleted after 24 hours. So on May...
Tuesday
May
03
10:03 pm
Radio News: Legislators want more transparency from FCC
John Eggerton at Multichannel.com reports that four House Democrats want FCC chairman Tom Wheeler to make all broadcast station files machine readable so they can be more easily searched and inspected...
Monday
May
02
11:02 pm
Radio News: Surveillance breeds reluctance, conformity
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. The Intercept reports that a new study from Oxford’s Jon Penney shows evidence that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds f...
Sunday
May
01
10:13 pm
Radio News: Radio announcers go crazy, and go off
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. A Nashville sports reporter was fired for delivering a Prince-themed sports report hours after the musician’s death. Fox affiliate WZTV...
Sunday
May
01
12:02 am
FCC April 2016 Open Meeting
FCC April 2016 Open Meeting airs at 2 a.m. Mon. May 2 on Wave Farm Radio and WGXC.
Saturday
Apr
30
11:34 am
Zach Poff's Pond Station airs dawn at Wave Farm during Reveil
WGXC and Wave Farm Radio are airing "Reveil" Sat. April 30, tracking the sounds of dawn around the planet. At 5:20 a.m., Zach Poff's Pond Station took over the feed, airing the hydrophones in the pon...
Saturday
Apr
30
9:45 am
New music on WGXC this week
Victoria Keddie, "Chamber Music Part C" Licht-Akiyama Trios, "Tomorrow Outside Tomorrow" (Editions Mego) Wire, "Numbered" from "Nocturnal Koreans."
Thursday
Apr
28
11:02 pm
Radio News: House votes to close email loophole
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. Techdirt reports that the U.S. House of Repressentatives, after 20 years of complaints, passed a requirement that would close a loophou...
Wednesday
Apr
27
6:10 pm
Radio News: FCC Commissioner lauds LPFM program
Radio World reports that Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn bragged to the audience at last week's National Association of Broadcasters convention about the success of th...
Tuesday
Apr
26
6:15 pm
Radio News: FCC, Justice Department approves Charter Communications merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. On April 25 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Justice Department announced approval of Charter Communications merger with...
Monday
Apr
25
6:03 pm
Radio News: FBI paid more than $1 million to get into iPhone
Darren Orf at Gizmodo rounds up what the public now knows about the Apple vs. FBI case of the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone. FBI Director James Comey told a crowd in London April 21 that the U.S....
Sunday
Apr
24
10:28 pm
Radio News: The Current Minneapolis station that everyone tuned in
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. At 12:09 p.m. April 21, KCMP (89.3 FM), the Minneapolis radio station known as The Current, played Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones,” and d...
Saturday
Apr
23
12:25 am
New music on WGXC this week
Sturgill Simpson, "In Bloom" from "A Sailor's Guide To Earth" xiu xiu, "Plays the Music of Twin Peaks." Mendi + Keith Obadike, "Numbers Station [Furtive Movements]" (excerpt) This is a 2min exc...
Friday
Apr
22
1:07 am
Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption
U.S. House Commerce Committee oversight April 19 hearing "Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption."
Monday
Apr
18
11:06 pm
Radio News: Congressperson's phone hacked for report, to show known flaw
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. Last week a "60 Minutes" report had a security expert hack a Congressperson's cell phone by just using his public ten-digit phone numbe...
Saturday
Apr
16
2:20 pm
Republicans vote against FCC regulation
Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica reports that The U.S. House of Representatives voted largely on party lines 241-173 April 15 to gut the Federal Communications Commission's authority to regulate Internet p...
Saturday
Apr
16
12:25 am
New music on WGXC this week
The Felice Brothers, "Aerosol Ball" from "Life In The Dark" Performance by Bard Percussion on November 20, 2015 at the Bard College Conservatory of Music of "Aurél Holló: José / beFORe JOHN 5"...
Thursday
Apr
14
10:47 pm
Radio News: Warrantless location surveillance is constitutional, court says
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. The Guardian reports that the sixth circuit court of appeals ruled April 12 that warrantless collection of cellphone location records i...
Wednesday
Apr
13
10:17 pm
Airline Wi-Fi is about to get faster
NBC News reports that there's Wi-Fi on more than one-third of available flights worldwide, with around 60 airlines offering the service. But only six percent of flights have Wi-Fi as strong as home br...