Media Minutes Audio
Media Minutes is the longest-running syndicated radio program of its kind focused on media policy and reform. Media Minutes tracks the latest industry developments, keeps an eye on Washington policy-makers, and talks to the experts and activists dedicated to changing our media environment for the better.
Recent programs have covered the grassroots groundswell in support of Network Neutrality, the FCC's new media ownership rules, and the fights to expand community media on the radio and on TV. Previous interview guests include law professor Lawrence Lessig, journalist Bill Moyers, and FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. Media Minutes archives go back to 2004.
Check back every Friday for a new installment of Media Minutes or subscribe to our podcast with iTunes.
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December 3, 2004
Verizon squelches community wireless in Pennsylvania, and a profile of Blackcommentator.com's Glen Ford.
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November 26, 2004
Watered-down legislation to firm up copyright law in the war against infringement passes Congress. Comcast and SBC team up to defeat a referendum on a municipal fiber network in the Chicago suburbs.
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November 19, 2004
A wave of license renewal challenges has been filed against several television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and Media General. George W.
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November 12, 2004
Predictions in the world of telecom policymaking by the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumers Union, and how alternate realities shaped Election 2004.
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November 5, 2004
Elections are over; what was the media's role in the outcome? And why were issues of working Americans so under-covered?
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October 29, 2004
Backlash from Sinclair's airing of "A P.O.W. Story." Pappas Telecasting gets partisan in California. Unofficial FCC localism hearing in Ithaca draws Michael Copps and Maurice Hinchey.
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October 22, 2004
FCC approves relaxed interference standards for Broadband Over Power Line data delivery services, which have the potential to decimate other users of the HF radio spectrum.
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October 15, 2004
Sinclair Broadcasting under fire for planning to air an anti-Kerry documentary on its 62 stations right before the election.
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December 31, 1969
New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wasted no time in moving the process of creating a national broadband plan to the top of his agenda. And the new criteria for broadband stimulus funding make Net Neutrality a basic rule of the road.
