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
May
02
3:40 am
Final decision of the CRB issued and royalty due date is postponed
From Broadcast Law Blog:On the same day that many webcasters were on Capitol Hill lobbying for the Internet Radio Equality Act, the Copyright Royalty Board issued its Final Determination of Rates and...
Sunday
Apr
29
3:28 am
Low power FM at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is going on all weekend in Indio, California. If you are there and want to tune in 103.3-FM, according to Xeni Jardin in Boing Boing: "Wayne Correia is tra...
Friday
Apr
27
3:14 pm
Lawmakers propose reversal of Net radio fee increases
From Anne Broache on c\net news.com:A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.T...
Friday
Apr
27
4:00 am
"Free" radio not so much in HD
From DIY Media:Fresh off the heels of the FCC's veritable rubber-stamping of the "HD" digital radio protocol, the broadcasters behind iBiquity's technology are wasting no time in preparing to lock dow...
Thursday
Apr
26
4:01 am
OPEN CALL: 11th edition Media Art Festival
The Media Art Friesland Festival 2007 is the 11th edition of the festival. The festival is an international platform for audiovisual arts, as video, film, new media, sound, installations and Internet...
Wednesday
Apr
25
12:05 pm
2007 AIRtime residents announced
free103point9 is pleased to announce our 2007 AIRtime residents.31 Down (Benjamin Brown, Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal) (Brooklyn, New York)"Dusk: The Sound of Bats," is a solar powered...
Wednesday
Apr
25
4:09 am
XM's rogue antennas amplify signals, merger scrutiny
Christopher Stern on corporate "pirates" at Bloomberg.com:XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. became the nation's largest satellite broadcaster with a network of hundreds of antennas that were built and...
Tuesday
Apr
24
4:07 am
OPEN CALL: Artradio
Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary arts and film, announces an open call for audio, for Artradio, Cornerhouse’s temporary radio station, broadcasting in FM and online thro...
Tuesday
Apr
24
3:00 am
OPEN CALL: 60x60 project
Vox Novus is inviting composers to submit works 60 seconds or less in length to included in its fifth annual 60x60 project. 60 compositions will be selected to be performed continuously in a one-hour...
Thursday
Apr
19
3:24 pm
Ofcom report on illegal broadcasting in UK
By Tom Roe16 percent of Londoners say they listen to "pirate" radio stations, according to a new report from Ofcom, the Office of Communications in England, the UK's equivalent to the U.S. Federal Com...
Wednesday
Apr
18
4:24 am
No FCC action expected in Imus affair
From Rachelle Younglai in Reuters:The Federal Communications Commission is not expected to take action over racist comments uttered by now-fired radio host Don Imus because of free-speech concerns, la...
Tuesday
Apr
17
8:59 pm
Copyright Royalty Board puts internet radio on death watch
From David DeJean in Information Week:The Copyright Royalty Board has quickly and completely affirmed its own decision on performance royalties, set in accordance with recording-industry wishes, that...
Friday
Apr
13
8:02 pm
North Dakota adds to RFID paranoia
From Wired blog:North Dakota has passed a law protecting its citizens from a danger that to date only seems to affect sci-fi protagonists and people who have been lax in taking their anti-psychotic m...
Friday
Apr
13
3:04 am
NCE FM new station and major modification application filing window announced
From DIY Media:The FCC will accept applications for non-commercial, full-power FM stations from October 12 to 19 of this year. That's a filing window two days longer than the usual, and the heads-up a...
Wednesday
Apr
11
6:06 pm
Radio pencil
Modern Mechanix keeps delving into its archives for gems like this radio pencil:
Saturday
Apr
07
7:36 pm
free103point9 Online Radio April Top 40
free103point9 Online Radiowww.free103point9.org1. Ting Ting Jahe, 18(16) (Winds Measure Recordings)2. Various artists, Selections from Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost (free103point9). With Michelle Nagai, Ed...
Wednesday
Apr
04
4:54 pm
FCC won't allow cell phones on planes
The Federal Communications Commission won't allow cell phone us on planes just yet. From their April 3 order:The comments filed in response to the NPRM provide insufficient technical information on wh...
Monday
Apr
02
4:07 am
Pakistan shuts Islamist radio station
From Reuters via Media Network weblog:Pakistani authorities have shut down an illegal FM radio station set up by pro-Taliban clerics in Islamabad during growing concern about the spread of Islamist in...
Saturday
Mar
31
4:52 am
New NYC-area microcaster reports
One poster at the New York Radio Message Board has located WMIR, a 24/7 unlicensced station operating at 100.9-FM in Suffolk County, New York. The station is playing classic rock (with a web stream if...
Thursday
Mar
29
4:09 am
OPEN CALL: Conflux 2007 proposals
Conflux is the annual New York City festival where visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the c...