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
Mar
30
9:47 pm
April Fool's Day is no joke anymore for U.S. radio
When talk turns to radio hoaxes, generally the conversation begins with Orson Welles and the Mercury Players 1938 on-air dramitization of H.G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds." Americans running...
Sunday
Mar
29
11:00 pm
Two more radio legends turn off mics
Two radio legends announced their broadcast ends this week. New York City-area legend Vin Scelsa announced his retirment March 28. Scelsa was a freeform FM radio pioneer since 1967, lately hosting "Id...
Saturday
Mar
28
7:07 pm
Squetti improvisation with radio
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Thursday
Mar
26
8:00 pm
Protests against museums for bad science, celebrity programming
Protesting museums reached a critical mass this week, for two different reasons. First, three dozen scientists sent a letter to two science and natural history museums, and started a petition, calling...
Wednesday
Mar
25
10:16 pm
The New York Times, and other publications, may be going the way of Facebook
The print journalism business lost revenue from many sources in its transition to digital, online news. Craigslist, the common wisdom goes, sucked the classified ad business out of newspapers. Now ano...
Tuesday
Mar
24
11:15 pm
New York City is now recording gun shots with open mics
New York City is getting into the field recordings game, just like Washington, Boston, Oakland, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. Those cities have installed ShotSpotter, a series of open microphones ar...
Tuesday
Mar
24
1:28 pm
Stockwell talks about community radio around the world from Tunisia
[caption width="200" align="alignright"] Norman Stockwell of WORT in Madison, WI.[/caption]Norman Stockwell, operations coordinator for WORT (89.9-FM) in Madison, WI, in Tunisia at AMARC's World Forum...
Tuesday
Mar
24
12:54 pm
House budget hearing for FCC
The U.S. House's Financial Services and General Government Committee held a budget hearing for the Federal Communications Commission Tue., March 24.
Tuesday
Mar
24
6:27 am
What is transmission art?
[caption id="attachment_2072" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Jeff Kolar created this image. See his website: http://jeffkolar.us/[/caption]
Monday
Mar
23
9:55 pm
FCC fines TV station $325,000 for news report
After the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, and the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) imposed a $550,000 fine against CBS and its affiliates for airi...
Sunday
Mar
22
11:03 pm
Congress debates performance royalties for radio
The “Local Radio Freedom Act” is winding its way through Congress now, and the name sounds like something almost anyone could get behind. Of course, generic friendly named bills are standard practice...
Thursday
Mar
19
4:34 pm
FM radio frequencies available by FCC auction this summer
David Oxenford at the Broadcast Law Blog reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold an auction for 131 commercial FM channels July 23. Most frequencies are in Texas, and the mi...
Wednesday
Mar
18
10:37 pm
Paying for internet web streams is one of radio's problems
Paying all the bills at any sort of radio station can be difficult in this multi-media age. The studio of Berkeley Liberation Radio was broken into and robbed, March 2, and now the legendary pirate ra...
Tuesday
Mar
17
5:47 pm
Wheeler grilled by House Committee on net neutrality
Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the FCC's relationship with the Obama administration March 17. The hearing...
Monday
Mar
16
2:39 pm
FCC wants to cut Enforcement Bureau
[caption width="603" align="alignright"] FCC enforcement actions by year, from DIYmedia.net.[/caption]The American Radio Relay League reports that, according to an internal Federal Communications Comm...
Sunday
Mar
15
2:27 pm
Pay to play is legal on the internet and on the radio
The Federal Communications Commission's recent ruling allowing "net neutrality" may give some consumers the idea that companies can't pay more money to create fast lanes on the internet for certain se...
Thursday
Mar
12
5:10 pm
FCC announces fines, and net neutrality rules
On March 11 the Federal Communications Commission fined Optic Internet Protocol, Inc., an Alpharetta, GA telephone company, $7,620,000 for changing consumers’ long distance carriers without their auth...
Wednesday
Mar
11
10:09 pm
'Blurred Lines' about verdict?
[caption width="250" align="alignright"]Marvin Gaye, from Wikipedia.[/caption]The Guardian reports that a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s children almost $7.4 million on March 10, determining Robin Thicke...
Tuesday
Mar
10
11:01 pm
Foo turns EEG waves into song
[caption width="120" align="alignright"] Brian Foo, from brianfoo.com.[/caption]Listen to this interview with Brian Foo, programmer and visual artist, who has translated the EEG brainwave data of an a...
Tuesday
Mar
10
9:38 pm
Clinton holds press conference about email
Name the presidential candidate who used personal email for official busines, with a server on private property as an elected official. Jeb Bush, as Republican governor of Florida, is the answer to th...