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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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...
Thursday
Mar
29
3:57 am
Adam "Everyware" Greenfield presents next book in NYC, April 9
From Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing:Adam "Everyware" Greenfield -- a sensible skeptic about radio-frequency ID tags whose writing on the subject is bang-on fascinating -- is presenting the material fro...
Tuesday
Mar
27
12:00 am
Press for 31 Down's "Canal Street Station"
TimeOut New York Trained Killer Forget transit cops: A new installation lets you play private eye on the subway. For all the improvements over the past decade or so, the transit system is st...
Saturday
Mar
17
5:01 am
Celebrate 10 years with free103point9!
free103point9 transmitted for the first time ten years ago March 7, 1997.I-Sound, DJ Singe, and other turntablists played to a packed crowd at Chris Coxwell's loft on Hope Street in Williamsburg near...
Saturday
Mar
17
2:30 am
OPEN CALL: Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden
(Early prototype for Jeff Feddersen's "EarthSpeaker," pictured at left at Wave Farm.)The Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden provides a unique opportunity for artists to conceive of and realize a...
Thursday
Mar
08
2:30 am
The end of internet radio?
From Daniel McSwain in Radio and Internet Newsletter:The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and...
Tuesday
Mar
06
9:04 pm
Navy researching vomit beam
Via the Danger Room blog of Wired, a company is creating a radio frequency device that disorients anyone it is aimed at, and apparently can cause vomiting."Invocon, Inc. proposes to investigate the us...
Monday
Mar
05
5:00 pm
OPEN CALL: Subliminal Statements 2, the Interior World
Call for SubmissionsSubliminal Statements 2: the Interior WorldThe Newsletter of the Society for a Subliminal State Due April 15, 2007Submit your articles on the interior world to the second issue of...
Monday
Mar
05
4:34 pm
free103point9 Online Radio March Top 40
free103point9 Online RadioMarch 2007 Top 401. Parts & Labor, Escapers One (Broklyn Beats)2. (), "Autecicadas/ocean_db_crash_nue" 7" (Parentheismusic.com)3. Mouthus, For the Great Slave Lakes (Thre...
Sunday
Mar
04
5:48 am
Zimbabwean MP ejected from Parliament after row over jamming
From Media Network Weblog:Trudy Stevenson, the Member of Parliament for Harare North, was ejected from Parliament yesterday for attempting to defend the freedom of the airwaves in Zimbabwe after she h...
Friday
Mar
02
5:43 am
OPEN CALL: Call for papers, "Networks, Identities and Experiences"
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture call for papers. The growing interest in community media research and practice in the last decade has been reflected by the increase in academic publica...
Thursday
Mar
01
7:03 pm
Court rejects S.F. pirate radio station's appeal
From KPIX-TV San Francisco:A small unlicensed radio station's challenge to the seizure of its equipment by federal officials in 2003 was rejected by a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday.San...
Tuesday
Feb
27
10:28 pm
Military signal blocks garage remotes
From Associated Press via Seattle Post-Intelligencer:For many suburbanites, life without garage door openers is unimaginable. But neighbors of the Marine base here have been reduced to just that after...
Sunday
Feb
25
4:37 am
OPEN CALL: ESS Artists Residency Program
The guidelines and application for the 2007 ESS Artists Residency Program in Chicago are available online at http://www.exsost.org/essresidency.htm. Applications cannot be made online, they must be ma...
Wednesday
Feb
21
4:42 am
FCC action against Brooklyn microcasters and current frequencies in use
By Tom RoeThe New York Radio Guide is reporting the FCC has sent three Brooklyn "pirate" microcasters "Notices of Unlicensed Operation," the first step in the agency's slow enforcement process. "The b...
Thursday
Feb
15
6:31 pm
Hitachi develops RFID powder
From Pink Tentacle:RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new “powder” type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2...
Monday
Feb
12
3:57 am
San Francisco Liberation Radio in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
From San Francisco Liberation Radio:Finally after three years of waiting SFLR will have it's day in the Ninth Circuit. This is where we could actually do some change. Everyone who can should come on...
Friday
Feb
09
6:54 am
Reid helps resurrect closed Goldfield radio station
Unbelievably, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has somehow turned a pirate radio station into a legal low-power FM station, even though the Federal Communications Commission is not currently entertaining any...
Friday
Feb
09
3:10 am
free103point9 Online Radio February 2007 Top 40
free103point9 Online Radio February 2007 Top 40 1. The Dust Dive Flash, Tens of Thousands (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 029) 2. Parts & Labor, Escapers One (Broklyn Beats) 3. (), "Autecicadas/ocea...