Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Tags: #RPTF, American Pie, archival preservation, College radio, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Don McLean, FCC, media history, NPR, popular music, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, sound recording history, university archives, University of Maryland, WMUC, Woodstock
Posted in Columns, Radio Preservation Task Force | 1 Comment »
What makes technology educational? Brian Gregory prompts this inquiry in his consideration of how Edgar Dale's ideas about sensory learning fit into the history of educational radio and ed tech.
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Tags: #RPTF, broadcasting, Edgar Dale, educational media, FCC, Library of Congress, National Recording Preservation Board, Packard Center, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force
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The FCC’s new Open Internet rules are a major come-from-behind victory for net neutrality. How in the world did this actually get done? And what exactly happens now?
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Tags: activism, broadband, common carriage, FCC, media policy, net neutrality, Open Internet, policymaking, regulation
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | Comments Off on What to Make of the Historic Net Neutrality Win
Broadcasters are paying top-dollar for the last useable scraps of the FM spectrum. John Anderson explores the booming market in translator stations and their implications for diversity on the dial.
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Tags: #RPTF, broadcasting, FCC, HD Radio, industry, Library of Congress, LPFM, National Recording Preservation Board, Packard Center, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force
Posted in Columns, Radio Preservation Task Force | 5 Comments »
President Obama’s statement calling on the FCC to implement the strongest possible net neutrality regulations is significant for many reasons, including what it signals about citizen engagement in communications regulation and the politics of media policy.
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Tags: Barack Obama, digital media, FCC, internet, media policy, net neutrality, Open Internet, regulation, Tom Wheeler
Posted in Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: AMC, Charter, Comcast, Dish, FCC, net neutrality, NFL, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Viacom
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Jan 13 – Jan 26
In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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Tags: #WOTW75, FCC, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, radio studies, War of the Worlds
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A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
Ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Tags: Amazon, Bruckheimer, FCC, Hotfile, intern, piracy, SiriusXM, Supreme Court
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten or more media industry news stories from the past two weeks.
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Tags: Aereo, Charter, Comcast, FCC, FXX, James Bond, MGM, Obama, Sony, Superman, The Simpsons, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros.
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 11 – Nov 24
In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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Tags: #WOTW75, audiences, broadcasting history, CBS, Communications Act of 1934, educational media, FCC, Federal Radio Education Committee, Frank Stanton, Hadley Cantril, Herta Herzog, Mass Communication, media aesthetics, media effects, media studies, Mercury Theatre on the Air, Orson Welles, Paul Lazarsfeld, Princeton Radio Research Project, propaganda, public broadcasting, radio studies, Rockefeller Foundation, War of the Worlds, William Paley
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Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Tags: Blockbuster, Charter, Deadline, FCC, Marvel, Netflix, RAI, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, China, Comcast, Dish, Disney, FCC, Grand Theft Auto V, Hopper, Jerry Bruckheimer, NBCUniversal, Rotten Tomatoes, Vivendi
Posted in Columns, Current Events, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29
The policy battle over net neutrality is heating back up with the hearing in Verizon v. FCC. Here's what's at stake in the case.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Technology, Technology | 1 Comment »