Wave Farm Newsroom
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Friday
Oct
27
4:31 am
New reports on media consolidation for FCC filing deadline
Two groups released studies this week about media consolidation.On Wednesday the Media and Democracy Coalition released a series of reports focusing on the economic effects of industry consolidation i...
Wednesday
Oct
25
4:26 am
Corporate radio piracy
DIY Media is one of the few outlets that cover all sorts of pirate radio activity, including the illegal actions of radio corporations.Recently, they have reported that, "XM and Sirius admitted to sel...
Tuesday
Oct
24
4:51 am
New Jersey-based Christian station fights Brooklyn 'pirate' with postcard
New Jersey Christian radio station WAWZ (99.1-FM) recently mailed a postcard to listeners asking them to help fight the Carribean "pirate" radio stations in Brooklyn that are also using the 99.1-FM fr...
Tuesday
Oct
24
4:19 am
FCC public hearing roadshow heads to Oakland
Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps -- who stopped at Hunter College in New York last week -- take their traveling public hearing roadshow to Oakland Oct. 27 at t...
Tuesday
Oct
24
12:24 am
OPEN CALL: Tactical audio submissions
Protest Academy / Station ViennaCall for Tactical Audio SubmissionsDeadline: 01. November 200611. November 2006, 2 p.m.Protest Academy Workshop, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, ViennaUntil November 1, 2006, Pr...
Monday
Oct
23
11:39 pm
FCC changes amateur radio rules
From REC Network:Effective 30 days from publication in the Federal Register, the FCC has made some sweeping changes to the Amateur Radio service. This includes changes in frequency privileges. The new...
Saturday
Oct
21
9:05 pm
OPEN CALL: Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program
The residency will run from May 1, 2007- April 1, 2008. Application Deadline: December 15, 2006. Applications will be accepted online beginning November 1, 2006. Images may be uploaded from November 1...
Saturday
Oct
21
4:28 am
Bob Lassiter R.I.P.
Longtime Tampa-based talk show host Bob Lassiter died last week, and free103point9 co-conspirator Michael Poole ("The Professor") has an exhaustive obituary up on the WFMU blog. Lassiter's Lenny Bruce...
Friday
Oct
20
11:06 pm
Haliburton Soundscape Retreat / the Soundscape in our Landscape
Canadian Association for Sound Ecology presentsThe Soundscape in Our LandscapeWhat: 3rd Haliburton Soundscape Retreat / the Soundscape in our LandscapeWhen: November 24-26, 2006Speakers: R. Murray Sch...
Friday
Oct
20
2:55 am
Cuba denounces “growing US electronic war of aggression”
From Media Network weblog:The website of Radio Habana Cuba reports that Cuba has again denounced at the United Nations what it calls ”the growing US radio and television aggressions against the island...
Friday
Oct
13
7:37 pm
FCC forfeiture order against Shawn Deroux for operating on 87.9-FM in NYC
The FCC announced today that it moved a "Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture" to a "Forfeiture Order" against Shawn Deroux for operating a radio station at 87.9-FM in the Bronx without a licen...
Friday
Oct
13
6:43 pm
OPEN CALL: Video for FO A RM Festival of Sound & Video
We are presenting the FO A RM Festival of Sound & Video at the Portland Art Center. Featuring critically acclaimed electro-acoustic composer Olivia Block, local avant-folk accordionist Luc, and e...
Friday
Oct
13
4:14 am
This American Life free feed
After initially charging for podcasts, This American Life is going free. Fans of the show had been rolling RSS script that pointed to the source files on the TAL website, allowing free reception.
Thursday
Oct
12
8:18 pm
Hungarian airport to RFID every passenger?
The BBC is reporting that Debrecen airport in Hungary is about to test attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to every passenger.This sounds like one of those fabrications that zoom abou...
Thursday
Oct
12
8:09 pm
Radio St. Helena Day
From St Helena Herald via Media Network Weblog:The first construction works began a couple of weeks ago at Radio St Helena in Pounceys, St Helena, with the pouring of the concrete slab, which holds th...
Wednesday
Oct
11
8:57 pm
Solar storms spell trouble for GPS
From New Scientist:Solar flares can drown out GPS signals with potentially serious consequences for airlines, emergency services, and anyone relying on satellite navigation.It turns out these bursts o...
Tuesday
Oct
10
4:47 am
OPEN CALL: The 60x60 project
Vox Novus invites composers to submit audio works 60 seconds or less in length to included in a special theme concert of the 60x60 project to be held June 2007 in Munich, Germany. The theme for audio...
Monday
Oct
09
7:28 pm
New WFMU schedule
Every so often excellent freeish-form New Jersey-based WFMU shakes up their radio schedule a bit. The current version starts today and goes through June 11, 2007. It includes regular favorites such as...
Thursday
Oct
05
4:47 am
free103point9 10th Anniversary Capital Campaign
Next year will mark free103point9’s tenth anniversary. As we approach this monumental milestone we'd like to invite you to participate in an exciting schedule of special anniversary events and the pla...
Thursday
Oct
05
4:46 am
FM Radio Map
Simon Elvins work, April, 2006:This map plots the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within London. The poster works in its own right as a piece of information design, but when connec...