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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Thursday
Feb
07
8:53 am
free103point9 spring Radio Labs in NYC
free103point9 is pleased to announce several public Radio Lab workshops providing participants with technical skills and historical/theoretical grounding pertinent to transmission media in hopes of fo...
Wednesday
Feb
06
7:11 am
free103point9 Transmission Art Archive
A participatory online initiative toward defining the genre.The winter months are a time for self-reflection: it is sometimes useful to pause and ask, "what does it all mean, anyway? Who am I, what is...
Saturday
Feb
02
7:38 am
NYC Grassroots Media Conference
free103point9 will provide live video webcasts of many of the workshops at the fifth annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference. "Speaking Truth to Power: Media Justice in Our Communities" is this year's...
Friday
Feb
01
5:45 am
OPEN CALL: Expo Brighton
Expo is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. Free and open, this unique platform mobilises a national network of artists and engages with communit...
Thursday
Jan
31
5:13 am
Ecotone Radio
A new program debuts today (Thursdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.) on free103- point9 Online Radio from DJ Pause called "Ecotone Radio." An ecotone is the transitional area between two different ecosystems. Its t...
Thursday
Jan
31
5:02 am
Mitt Romney and Ham radio
From Southgate Amateur Radio Club:Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney says that he never intended to demean Amateur radio in an exchange with a television reporter two years ago. This, as th...
Thursday
Jan
31
4:31 am
Radio volunteer sets station on fire over playlist dispute
from Xeni Jardin in Boing Boing:A decidedly non-mellow fellow who worked on an online jazz music show called "Mellow Down Easy" (*snort*) set fire to the radio station where he volunteered, because he...
Tuesday
Jan
29
5:03 am
700MHz: $6.1B & counting
From Daily Wireless:The FCC’s 700 MHz spectrum auction saw a pair of bidding rounds that brought the total potential winning bids climb to just over $4.4 billion, after round six, and $6.1 billion aft...
Tuesday
Jan
29
4:39 am
Hong Kong pro-democracy radio allowed back on air
A Hong Kong court ruled last week that a pirate radio station called "Citizens' Radio" can stay on the air. From a Reuters account:High Court judge Michael Hartmann dismissed a government request to e...
Tuesday
Jan
29
3:47 am
Sound waves snuff fire
From David Pescovitz in Boing Boing:In 1857, Irish scientist John Tyndall recognized that sound waves could extinguish flames. Now, scientists hope that phenomena could lead to the development of new...
Monday
Jan
28
5:04 am
Empire State Building car zap mystery
From Richard Weir in New York Daily News:In the shadow of the Empire State Building lies an “automotive Bermuda Triangle” - a five-block radius where vehicles mysteriously die. No one is sure what’s c...
Sunday
Jan
27
5:57 am
The presidential candidates on FCC-related issues
Lasar's Letter on the FCC is constantly updating this page charting all the presidential candidates stands on various media issues. Interesting notes:*The Democrats all support net neutrality; Ron Pau...
Saturday
Jan
26
4:15 am
Acoustic "invisibility" cloaks possible, study says
From Richard A. Lovett in National Geographic NewsIf sound could bend around objects in just the right way, submarines could evade sonar detection and large beams and columns wouldn't obstruct concert...
Thursday
Jan
24
6:37 am
free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for January 2008
free103point9 Online Radio Top 40 for January 20081. Latitude/Longitude, "Solar Filters/Mother Evening" 7" (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 031)2. Radio Ruido, "False Rosetta" 2x7" (free103point9 Audio D...
Wednesday
Jan
23
5:21 am
FCC fines pirates In The Bronx, Danbury
From Jeffrey Yorke in Radio & Records:The FCC's Enforcement Bureau on Friday (Jan. 18) said it had slapped a pair of pirate broadcasters with stiff fines for “willfully” operating transmitters wit...
Tuesday
Jan
22
6:33 pm
Cell phones linked to disturbed sleep
From BBC:Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests. The study, funded by mobile phone companies, suggests radiation from the handset can...
Wednesday
Jan
16
5:09 am
Kristin Lucas, "The Dispatcher: Carrying Green"
Kristin Lucas' radio play "The Dispatcher: Carrying Green" airs as free103point9's contribution to the Radia network, 2 p.m. Th. Jan. 17 (-5 GMT). "The Dispatcher: Carrying Green is a political satire...
Tuesday
Jan
15
8:42 pm
OPEN CALL: Giant Ear)))
Giant Ear))) is a webcast produced by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. It can be heard from 7-9 p.m. ET every Sunday at www.free103point9.org. Shows feature a wide range of field recordings,...
Monday
Jan
14
6:44 am
Off The Grid
Off The Grid03.30 - 06.01.08 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.Off The Grid will feature works that subvert and circumvent conventional infrastructures and are interested in alternatives to corpor...
Monday
Jan
14
1:30 am
Radio troll "Filipino Monkey" may have transmitted in Strait of Hormuz
From Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing via Navy Times:The threatening message received by a US Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a notorious radio troll known to seasoned skippers as the...