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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Wednesday
Apr
27
11:33 pm
Radio News: Report outlines Russia's hack attacks against Ukraine
Dan Goddin reports for Ars Technica about a report published April 27 by Microsoft that says Russian hackers in six groups have launched no fewer than 237 operations in concert with the country's phys...
Tuesday
Apr
26
11:33 pm
Radio News: Listening to radio via webstreams grow
Susan Ashworth reports for Radio World that a new study by Nielsen shows many people listening to AM or FM stations in the United States are tuning in webstreams, rather than terrestrial signals. Stre...
Monday
Apr
25
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC considering receiver regulation
Do you remember a few months ago, the airline industry was up in arms about 5G cell service? The Brookings Institution had a headline in November saying, "Will 5G mean airplanes falling from the sky?"...
Sunday
Apr
24
11:33 pm
Radio News: Broadband industry so far failing to overturn California's net neutrality
Jon Brodkin reports for Ars Technica that so far, net neutrality has been a policy that depends on which way the political winds are blowing. Net neutrality is the principle that an internet service p...
Thursday
Apr
21
11:33 pm
Radio News: FCC votes for fine for phone company owned by Russians
David Shepardson reports for Yahoo Finance that the Federal Communications Commission voted April 21 4-0 to fine London-based Truphone Ltd, the owner of Montana-based iSmart Mobile phone company, $660...
Wednesday
Apr
20
11:33 pm
Radio News: Ukrainian loot being tracked back to Russia
Common internet tracking technology using radio waves is proving in real-time that Russian soldiers are stealing phones, AirPods, and farm equipment from Ukrainians during their invasion of the Europe...
Tuesday
Apr
19
11:25 pm
Radio News: Solar flare knocks out transmissions in Asia, Australia
Business Insider predicts bad solar weather this week, after a solar flare knocked out radio signals in parts of Asia and Australia. The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center reported the solar flare p...
Monday
Apr
18
11:33 pm
Radio News: New documentary on tower climbers
Elle Kehres reports for Radio World that the Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, which is the union for broadcast tower climbers, and Storybuilt Media are releasing a feature-length...
Sunday
Apr
17
11:30 pm
Radio News: Some radio-related equipment still being sold to Russia
Adi Robertson reports for The Verge that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been fought with tanks, planes, ships, and humans, and also with radio waves, as a battle of information over the internet,...
Thursday
Apr
14
11:33 pm
Radio News: BBC goes to the dogs with 'slow radio'
Paul Revoir reports for The Daily Mail that the British Broadcasting Corporation has another so-called "slow radio" production in the works that is a field recording reality show. "Honey – A Day In Th...
Wednesday
Apr
13
11:30 pm
Radio News: FCC considers updating EAS
Randy J. Stone reports in Radio World that the Federal Communications Commission is thinking about reinventing the Emergency Alert System. Listeners mostly hear tests of the Emergency Alert System on...
Tuesday
Apr
12
11:30 pm
Radio News: Russian propaganda is on U.S. airwaves too
There has been much reporting about the propaganda posing as news that is being broadcast to the Russian people about the invasion of Ukraine. Russian journalists can't use the word "war," and instead...
Monday
Apr
11
11:33 pm
Radio News: Chicago pirate radio station keeps traditions alive
WBEZ reports that a Chicago man who ran an AM pirate station while in high school in Milwaukee during the Vietnam War, now is running an FM pirate radio station in Chicago playing audio noir radio dra...
Sunday
Apr
10
11:33 pm
Radio News: Fox viewers paid to watch CNN change their views
Matthew Yglesias reports for Bloomberg that in September 2020, political scientists David Broockman of the University of California at Berkeley and Joshua Kalla of Yale paid viewers of Fox News to wat...
Thursday
Apr
07
11:32 pm
Radio News: War in Ukraine is also on the radio
Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine is not just a war of people and weapons, but of radio waves. In early February Russia began by bombing TV towers and attacking internet services. Then a major s...
Wednesday
Apr
06
11:30 pm
Radio News: Some hosts fired for their speech, others left on air
Free speech seems like an endangered concept these days. The right wants to stop teachers from talking about many subjects with students, and ban books they do not agree with. The left is trying to qu...
Tuesday
Apr
05
11:33 pm
Radio News: Republicans continue to block Biden's FCC nomination
Inside Radio reports that it is five months since President Joe Biden nominated Gigi Sohn for the fifth commissioners seat on the Federal Communications Commission. Republicans have blocked the nomina...
Monday
Apr
04
11:33 pm
Radio News: AM and FM listening in cars drops slightly
Tom Vernon reports for Radio World that AM or FM radio stations are still the number one sounds in cars. The Infinite Dial 2022‘s survey of in-car media listening found 73 percent of people listen to...
Monday
Apr
04
1:00 am
Radio News: FCC gets 66 complaints for Oscar telecast
Margaret Hartmann reports at New York Magazine that 66 people sent complaints to the Federal Communication Commission regarding ABC's telecast of the Oscars which included a physical and verbal attack...
Sunday
Apr
03
2:33 am
Radio News: Voice behind 'Convoy," CB radio anthem, dies
Matt Schudel reports in the Washington Post that Bill Fries, an advertising executive with a unique history in one form of radio, died from cancer at the age of 93 on April 1. Under his stage name C.W...