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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Tuesday
Sep
22
10:27 pm
Snowden says encryption may explain Fermi's paradox
[caption width="264" align="alignright"] Neil deGrasse-Tyson speaks via radio waves with Edward Snowden. From "Star Talk" website.[/caption]The Fermi paradox, thought up by physicists Enrico Fermi and...
Sunday
Sep
20
5:20 pm
BBC criticized as it expands, maybe into propaganda
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. In a July 16, 2015 Voice of America press release quotes new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari: “My daily life starts at 6 a.m. by...
Saturday
Sep
19
12:05 am
This Week in Radio News: Mendi and Keith Obadike
[caption width="350" align="alignleft"] From Blackart.net.[/caption]"This Week in Radio News" is a magazine show with radio headlines about radio waves, features on radio art, and interviews. This epi...
Thursday
Sep
17
7:31 pm
FCC lets contest rules live online
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. John Eggerton in Broadcasting and Cable reports that the Federal Communications Commission unanimously decided to let radio and TV ou...
Wednesday
Sep
16
10:30 pm
Navy, NRDC agree to lessen sonar to help whales
[caption width="497" align="alignright"] From Wikipedia.[/caption]Brian Palmer in On Earth magazine reports that the U.S. Navy has agreed to reduce sonar sounds in the Pacific that have been bombardin...
Tuesday
Sep
15
9:59 pm
AM radio industry trying for a slice of FM frequencies
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. John Anderson in DIYmedia.net reports that the National Association of Broadcasters are currently lobbying the Federal Communications...
Monday
Sep
14
10:43 pm
Court orders copyright holders to 'consider' fair use before sending takedowns
Eriq Gardner in The Hollywood Reporter writes that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Sept. 14 ruled that copyright owners must "consider" fair use before sending internet takedown letters. The case r...
Sunday
Sep
13
11:22 pm
Dutch musician cuts anti-piracy track, gets pirated
Jason Mick at DailyTech.com reports that the makers of the "Piracy: It's a Crime" commercials used Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt's song on that project, and then again, without permission, on ma...
Thursday
Sep
10
10:00 pm
Robert Adrian, Kunstradio co-founder and telecommunication artist, dies
Kunstradio added a memoriam webpage for co-founder Robert Adrian (1935 - 2015) on Sept. 10. "My approach to the electronic networks is that of a visual artist." Robert Adrian was born in Toronto,...
Wednesday
Sep
09
10:48 pm
Radio Preservation Task Force to host conference
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. Michele Hilmes, Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Madison, reports at the Antenna blog that the Radio Preservation Task Fo...
Tuesday
Sep
08
10:02 pm
FCC changes complaint procedures, with little precision
Click here to download or play an audio version of this report. The Federal Communications Commission, after cutting back its enforcement division earlier in the summer, last week instituted, “enha...
Monday
Sep
07
11:35 pm
Azerbaijani radio journalist jailed
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. (1:48) Matthew Lasar at Radio Survivor writes that Azerbaijani radio host Khadija Ismayilova is in jail in Azerbaijan, for doing he...
Sunday
Sep
06
7:40 pm
FCC considers LPFM rule changes
David Oxenford in the Broadcast Law Blog reports that the FCC is asking for comments on a rulemaking proposal that would allow LPFM stations to operate commercially and be owned by local small busines...
Friday
Sep
04
1:32 am
This Week in Radio News: Viv Corringham, Donald Trump
Click here to download or play this show. (28:00) Viv Corringham describes her "Shadow Walks" and Donald Trump reviews "Citizen Kane" on "This Week in Radio News." The show tracks headlines and sto...
Thursday
Sep
03
10:39 pm
FCC has few ideas for NYC pirates
Click here to download or play an audio version of this story. (2:05) John Anderson in DIY Media reports that Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler just about admitted recently tha...
Wednesday
Sep
02
10:56 pm
Audio storytelling continues to grow online
Click here to download or play and audio version of this report. (1:26) [caption width="300" align="alignright"] Julie Shapiro photo from PRX.org.[/caption]Nicholas Quah reports for Nieman Lab that...
Tuesday
Sep
01
3:49 pm
Appeals court allows bulk phone collection
Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Joe Mullin at Ars Technica reports that in 2013 U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled against the National Security Agency's bulk co...
Monday
Aug
31
10:30 pm
North Dakota drone law may add weapons
Click here to play an audio edition of this report. (1:45) Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica reports that House Bill 1328 just passed in North Dakota requiring that police and sheriff’s deputies get a...
Tuesday
Jul
07
10:33 pm
Bill would force web sites to report terrorist posts
Ellen Nakashima reported in The Washington Post that the Senate Intelligence Committee last week approved legislation that would require web sites to report on suspected terrorist postings. The measur...
Sunday
Jul
05
11:05 pm
Chicago to begin applying 'amusement tax' to web services
Many American cities once taxed new fads such as jukeboxes and pinball machines with amusement taxes. Now Karl Bode at DSL Reports writes Chicago is about to start applying amusement taxes to Netflix,...