The mediageek radio show 2003 archive

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Each edition of the show starts with a 5 - 10 minute rundown of media news, followed by the program's feature(s).

Dec. 26: Independent Words and Music - excerpts from a combo improv music performance and zine-reading held at the Urbana-Champaign IMC.

Dec. 19: Pacifica's Plans to Serve Affiliate Stations - Interview with Ursula Ruedenberg, Pacifica Affiliates Coordinator.

Dec. 12: Redline Radio Chicago - Interview with a volunteer from this unlicensed station serving the north side of Chicago.

Dec. 5: Big News Wrap-Up and Review of Mainstream Press Coverage of the FTAA and FTAA Protests

Nov. 21: A Police State in Miami - Live interview with U-C IMC reporter Jay Eychaner after police break up a jail solidarity rally during protests against the FTAA.

Nov. 14: The FTAA in Miami, and the massive resistance to unjust globalization -- Interview with Zach Miller, a member of a local group of IMC journalists traveling to Miami to provide streetlevel coverage of the upcoming protests against the FTAA meeting there.

Nov. 7: Live report from the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! Conference, from mediageek host Paul Riismandel and John Anderson, of DIYmedia.net.

Oct. 31: Preview of the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! Conference, interview with Jeff Nicholson-Owens about recent news in intellectual propert and on-line civil liberties.

Oct. 17: Interview with Sara Longsmith, a volunteer with Radio Free Brattleboro, VT, about their history and recent confrontations with the FCC.

Oct. 10: Live in-studio interview with Brent Ritzl, publisher of Zine Guide and Tail Spins, about indy publishing and communicating with youth about independent media.

Sept 19: Interview with Brent Ritzl, publisher of Zine Guide and Tail Spins, about independent publishing, and trying to make it your living.

Sept. 12: The Santa Cruz city council passes a resolution in support of unlicensed Freak Radio Santa Cruz and a quick rundown of the top 10 censored news stories of 2003.

Sept. 5: The last live in-studio appearance of mediageek's resident zine queen, Aj Michel. She discusses the zine trend of moving towards bound books, and reviews some recently published zines.

Aug. 29: John Anderson of DIYmedia.net co-hosts live in the studio, he discusses recent FCC activity with unlicensed broadcasters Free Radio Brattleboro, VT and Freak Radio Santa Cruz.

Aug. 15: Free Radio Milwaukee, an interview with a volunteer from that station which currently has lost its transmitter.

Aug. 8: The Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR. Interview with Pablo DeOcampo, director of the IPRC.

July 25: The Congressionally-mandated Mitre report says Low-Power FM is OK. Interview with Don Schellhardt of the Amherst Alliance.

July 18: The persecution of RaiseTheFist.com webmaster, Sherman Austin.

July 11: The FCC's crackdown on unlicensed radio stations.

June 30: Special One-Hour Edition Roundup of FCC's Media Ownership Rules Review. Includes a review of the changes the FCC made, the moves that Congress is making to reverse some of these changes, along with public comments made by citizens and FCC Chairman Powell.

June 27: 28 Pages Lovingly Bound with Twine, an interview with zine creator Cristoph Meyer, along with news about the latest Congressional moves on media ownership rules.

June 20: Zine World and Rejected Band Names, an interview with zine editor Jerianne.

June 13: What's happening in the Pirate Radio World. Interivew with John Anderson of DIYmedia.net.

May 16: Update on the Urbana IMC Shutdown, Police Raid Collective Spaces and IMC in St. Louis, and start of the new Baghdad IMC. Sascha Meinrath and Faith Swords from the Urbana-Champaign IMC bring us up to date with all this news.

May 9: Zines and the Urbana IMC Shutdown -- Sascha Meinrath of the Urbana Indymedia Center explains why and how the performance space at the IMC was shutdown by Urbana city officials. Aj Michel and Ariel Clemenzi disucss zines, including Ariel's Women's Self-Defense Zine and Rock Out.

April 18: The Need for Community Media -- Pledge drive show with guests media scholar Robert McChesney and Matthew Rothschild, editor of the Progressive Magazine.

March 28: Grassroots Radio News -- Interview with Clint Popetz, coordinator of radio news for Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

Mar. 14: True Indie Publishing and Films on Tour -- interview with Joshua Breitbart of Rooftop Films and Clamor Magazine.

Mar. 7: A Sample of Public Testimony to the FCC at the Seattle Forum on Media Ownership

Feb. 28: Independent publications and 'Zines with mediageek's resident 'zinester Aj Michel. Click here for a listing of contact info for all the publications mentioned in this show.

Feb. 14: The U-C IMC's Newspaper, the public I -- interview with volunteers Sandra Ahten and Darrin Drda.

Jan. 24: Media Ownership -- Review of FCC testimony at Columbia U. public forum; analyzing local TV ownership

Jan. 10: Low-Power FM in Champaign-Urbana? Interview with Mike Lehman, applicant for a station in Urbana, IL.

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