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
Sep
24
5:18 am
A new push to address multiple ownership?
From Broadcast Law Blog:Over a year ago, the FCC released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on amendments to the FCC's multiple ownership rules. Issues from newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership, to lo...
Monday
Sep
24
5:15 am
XM satellite radio free POTUS '08 channel
XM channel 130 will be commercial-free, non-subscription channel from now until election day next year. Anyone with an XM radio, whether activated or not, will be able to receive it. XM radios can be...
Sunday
Sep
23
4:02 am
CellDar: Monitoring traffic via cell radiation
From Daily Wireless:The Missouri Department of Transportation has begun anonymously monitoring cell phone signals as a high-tech way of tracking vehicle speeds and warning motorists of traffic jams. T...
Saturday
Sep
22
4:15 am
Evidence at Wave Farm
From Vonn New:Last night (Sept. 19, 2007), I was invited to participate in a work-in-progress, "Channel Surfing" by the duo Evidence. Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore, a/k/a Evidence, were finishing...
Saturday
Sep
22
2:31 am
Alternatives to HD radio
From DIYMedia:Believe it or not, "HD Radio" is not the only digital audio broadcast system in the world. Alternatives do exist: one of the most promising is Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) (which should...
Friday
Sep
21
3:46 am
Newsweek: The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about
From Electronic Frontier Foundation:Newsweek's top story today exposes the desperation of the telecommunications companies in light of cases like EFF's class-action lawsuit against AT&T, which acc...
Wednesday
Sep
19
3:40 pm
Somali troops attack radio station
From BBC: Somali transitional government forces have laid siege to an independent radio station in Mogadishu for several hours. Shabelle reporters said soldiers deliberately targeted their office, fir...
Tuesday
Sep
18
6:16 am
Car WiFi radio: huge
From Daily Wireless:Bridge Ratings says traditional and satellite radio will take a significant hit in listening about a decade after WiFi and WiMax technologies are available in-car.Bridge Ratings su...
Tuesday
Sep
18
2:14 am
Live underwater cameras and microphones
For the next eight days, you can watch a live undersea camera via the Aquarius underwater ocean laboratory in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The laboratory is deployed three and half mile...
Saturday
Sep
15
4:02 am
Make a foxhole radio
Click on link in headline to watch video demonstration of a simple, or foxhole, radio made out of a paper tube, wire, paper clips, a razor blade, and a pencil. (Image via Boing Boing.)From Bre Pettis...
Friday
Sep
14
4:07 am
Conflux festival, day 1
From Regine in We Make Money Not Art:A few notes from Conflux Festival day one which runs until Sunday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The HQ is at the gallery The Change You Want to See, a space for proje...
Tuesday
Sep
11
5:08 am
AM filing freeze while FCC accepts applications for a new AM in Rockland County, New York
From Broadcast Law Blog:In a very unusual process - one that is probably unprecedented - the FCC last week announced that it is opening a window for parties to file applications for a new AM station t...
Monday
Sep
10
6:47 am
RFID implants linked to animal tumors
From Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing:VeriChip -- and other vendors -- have been busily implanting radio-frequency ID (RFID) chips in human and animal subjects ever since the FDA approved the process. But...
Thursday
Sep
06
4:17 am
Latest reports on NYC microradio
Several reports from radio engineers posting to the New York Radio Message Board say that "pirate" radio activity in New York City is busier than ever. In Brooklyn, for instance, there are reports of...
Wednesday
Sep
05
7:32 pm
OPEN CALL: Proposals for projects at Gallery Skolska
DEAI/setkání Association hereby opens a call for submissions for proposals of individual or collective artistic exhibition projects for Gallery Školská 28 during the year 2008–9 and a call for submiss...
Wednesday
Sep
05
4:03 am
CA bill would ban forced subdermal RFID-tagging of humans
From Boing Boing:California's senate passed a bill last week that bans the forced RFID tagging of humans (think: prisoners, employees, pedos out on the street who've done their time). The state senato...
Tuesday
Sep
04
5:49 pm
OPEN CALL: LMCC Swing Space
You need space in lower Manhattan. LMCC has it. Swing Space is the missing link between temporarily vacant real estate and the artists who need that space to develop, create and present their work. Fi...
Tuesday
Sep
04
1:40 am
OPEN CALL: Field recordings via telephone
Bldgblog is looking for field recordings by phone. So if you're anywhere that seems sonically interesting over the next few weeks – a waterfall, a migratory bird preserve, a shuddering freight elevato...
Monday
Sep
03
5:57 pm
OPEN CALL: Early Development Artist Residency Program at Three-Legged Dog
This program is predominantly for groups with budgets of between 5K and 25K. Applications are rolling. The selection cycle for Fall of 2008 ends on October 1, 2007. The selection cycle for Winter/Spri...
Friday
Aug
31
9:48 pm
MAP and PISC call for changes to national broadband application
The Media Access Project (MAP) and the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) filed ex parte comments with the Federal Communications Commission on Aug. 28, raising concerns about M2Z's application...