[sudoroom] sudo radio mtg sun. at 2pm - also meet to discuss compact!

[Leonid Kozhukh]

sounds like we have unconference part 2 happening on sunday.

along with the compact and kopimism i wanted to touch on our legal standing
and possible directions to head with that.

looking forward to it all...


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks eddan!
>
> following the kopimism meeting on sunday at 1, radio-interested folks will
> be meeting at 2pm.
>
> also, our compact still needs work! i would be interested in taking time
> on sunday afternoon to talk about concrete compact issues as well.
>
> marina
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at eddan.com> wrote:
>
>> I wasn't able to attend the Sudo Radio meeting last weekend at the
>> UnConference because it was at the same time as the JOBS Act SEC public
>> comments session. I'm also interested in keeping up with developments, but
>> won't be able to make it on Sunday.
>> I wanted to send around more info on the recent developments in the FCC
>> (Federal Communications Commission) licensing rules regarding Pirate Radio
>> stations that was issued last week. The Prometheus Radio Project, who have
>> been working on community radio for a while now will be helping nonprofit
>> groups to apply for licenses. The licenses will begin to be issued in Oct.
>> 2013, so that gives us a pretty concrete timeline for getting Sudo Radio up
>> and running.
>>
>> sent from eddan.com
>>
>> http://prometheusradio.org/rules_announced
>>
>> FCC announces first opportunity for small community radio stations in 12
>> years:
>> First opportunity for small community radio stations in 12 years coming
>> in October 2013
>>
>> November 30, 2012
>>
>> Washington DC -- Today the Federal Communications Commission announced
>> that for the first time in more than a decade, community groups nationwide
>> will soon be able to start small, local radio stations. Nonprofit
>> organizations, schools, Indian Tribes and public safety agencies can apply
>> for Low Power FM (LPFM) stations in October 2013. For the first time ever,
>> the agency will allow these noncommercial stations in urban areas.
>>
>> The news is long-awaited by the Prometheus Radio Project and its
>> supporters, who led the grassroots coalition that pushed Congress to pass
>> the Local Community Radio Act of 2010. The law expanded community radio by
>> directing the FCC to make more channels available nationwide, reversing an
>> earlier law that relegated stations to rural settings. The FCC implemented
>> the law by creating more flexible rules on where new stations can be
>> located.
>>
>> “Finally, communities without a voice on the airwaves will have a chance
>> to control their own local media,” said Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for
>> the Prometheus Radio Project. "Thanks to the significant step forward
>> today, we will see a wave of new radio stations that better reflects the
>> diversity of our country.”
>>
>> The 800+ low power stations already on the air are run by nonprofit
>> groups, colleges, churches, and emergency responders. Many, such as the
>> Oregon farmworker station KCPN, offer local programming in languages other
>> than English, often hard to find on the radio dial. KPCN, also known as
>> Radio Movimiento, plays Spanish-language news and information, organizes
>> voter registration drives, and plays traditional and contemporary music.
>>
>> Low power stations are an accessible outlet for nonprofit organizations
>> to engage their communities, costing as little as $10,000 to launch. Over
>> 90% of Americans listen to radio at least once a week.
>>
>> “Radio is a great tool for reaching working people - it's free to listen,
>> easy to produce, and people can often tune in on the job or while doing
>> housework," said Milena Velis, Media Organizer and Educator with
>> Philadelphia-based Media Mobilizing Project. “In Pennsylvania, we're facing
>> big challenges, from education cuts to rural poverty to environmentally
>> destructive shale drilling. We see community radio as a way to bring people
>> together and create solutions from the ground up.”
>>
>> "Just like New Mexico needs clean and healthy air, land, and water, we
>> need healthy media, too,” said Rusita Avila of the Media Literacy Project
>> in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “We’re excited because community radio can give
>> us a place to tell our stories and speak our truth."
>>
>> Those who want to apply for a station should start preparing now. Sign up<http://prometheusradio.org/getradio>for free updates and support from Prometheus, including access to
>> application guides, free online trainings, and advice on getting started.
>> Find out if there is an open frequency on your radio dial with the
>> Prometheus zip code check <http://prometheusradio.org/zipcodecheck>tool. Join the online community at Radio
>> Spark <http://radiospark.org> to connect with radio engineers and other
>> applicants nationwide, or meet face-to-face at a public event on the Reclaim
>> the Airwaves <http://prometheusradio.org/2012tour> tour.
>>
>> Press contact:
>> Brandy Doyle
>>
>> Policy Director
>> Prometheus Radio Project
>> brandy at prometheusradio.org
>>
>>
>> http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/pirate-radio-goes-legit/Content?oid=3204082
>>
>> Pirate Radio Goes Legit: The FCC is poised to license community radio
>> stations in the Bay Area for the first time, and the competition promises
>> to be fierce.
>>
>> The radio station is little more than a back office tucked into a strip
>> mall on the outskirts of Sacramento, just past a lonely Home Depot and two
>> different Starbucks drive-throughs. Filled with one desk and a short stack
>> of electronics — primarily a CD player and some sort of jet-black
>> transmitter with blinking red lights — KDEE pumps a feeble 100 watts into
>> the Sacramento Valley, pushing radio waves only as far as the foothills a
>> few miles away.
>>
>> But with its unique programming — a fearless song choice that bounds from
>> thumping GrandMaster Flash to lesser-known Stevie Wonder songs (music that
>> commercial stations rarely play) and earnest public-service announcements
>> that urge black men to get their diplomas and tell women to eat more
>> healthfully — the station is, in fact, part of what may be one of the most
>> important trends in broadcast media. "Radio needs to speak to something,"
>> said Tristen Hayes, a forty-hour-a-week DJ and self-proclaimed talk show
>> host who is one of only three paid staffers at KDEE, a micro-broadcasting
>> station managed by the California Black Chamber of Commerce. Hayes added
>> forcefully, "but let's not do it to make money." A former Penn State
>> offensive lineman, Hayes has softened in his post-college decades, yet he
>> still has the presence to stop a locomotive.
>>
>> Hayes pushed away a crane-neck microphone bolted to the desk, leaned back
>> in his chair, and crossed his broad arms over his middle-age belly. He
>> wears Ben Franklin glasses, and a knuckle-size diamond earring. "Radio is
>> broken," he said, "and no one is speaking to us." He paused before
>> clarifying, "In Sacramento, nothing spoke to Afro-Americans, unless it was
>> for some political advantage." He talked over a Chaka Khan song. "Now we
>> have *The Chocolate News*. We have shows about how the White House
>> affects your house, how health care affects you. We talk about real estate
>> at eye-level; there's not a whole lot of Ebonics here," he laughed. "We
>> lock people in by playing great music, and then talk about real issues."
>>
>> Historically, radio has represented its sense of place better than other
>> forms of media — consider iconic shows like the *Grand Ole Opry* and *A*
>> *Prairie Home Companion*, or even music itself, often labeled as the
>> Seattle-, Minneapolis-, or British-scene. But over the past fifteen years,
>> radio, more than any other medium, has experienced the quick consolidation
>> of ownership and control of stations by corporate interests. In the
>> mid-1990s, the nation's 10,000 radio stations were owned by some 5,000
>> entities. By 2008, four companies — most notably, Clear Channel — had
>> gobbled up more than half of the radio airwaves, and were increasingly
>> elbowing out locally produced programming in favor of formulated playlists
>> and nationally syndicated talk shows.
>>
>> Yet in a quixotic effort to counter this trend, community organizers and
>> pirate radio station enthusiasts tried ten years ago to convince the
>> Federal Communications Commission to open up the airwaves to small,
>> community-focused stations. Surprisingly, they won approval, and over the
>> past several years roughly 800 hyper-local stations have popped up around
>> the country — including 61 in California, like KDEE in Sacramento, as well
>> as a Hawaiian-music station in Watsonville, an environmentally focused one
>> in Mendocino, and a station in Oroville with six hours of programming
>> exclusively for nearby Hmong residents.
>>
>> And, in the coming months, this plan for "locally-grown radio" is set to
>> double in size, scope, and, correspondingly, impact. In January, President
>> Barack Obama signed into law the Community Radio Act, an order to open up
>> the airwaves to a second batch of 1,000 or so micro-broadcasting stations —
>> or, in FCC parlance, LPFM stations (low-powered frequency modulation). The
>> FCC currently is hammering out final details, but as soon as this summer,
>> an opportunity for those licenses will become available. And, for the first
>> time, the FCC is looking to open up airwaves in urban areas like Berkeley,
>> Oakland, and San Francisco, where the crowded radio band precluded any LPFM
>> stations during the first round of licensing.
>>
>> So far, the battle over America's airwaves — and how these new LPFM
>> stations could help change the tenor of radio across the country — has
>> mainly been fought in Washington, DC. Traditionally, the FCC has sided with
>> large broadcasting conglomerates that seek to dominate the radio dial. But
>> recently, the agency pushed back against these corporate interests and
>> created more openings for community radio stations in even more cities. Yet
>> these new opportunities will hardly be a slam dunk for groups like
>> California Black Chamber of Commerce or other community organizations: For
>> starters, the competition for these new licenses promises to be intense,
>> and if past practices are any indicator, the FCC tends to favor religious
>> organizations when it hands out licenses.
>>
>> In Sacramento, one of the few urban areas to receive permission for a
>> LPFM license, these micro-broadcasting stations are critical for defining
>> communities, a duty ignored by the syndicated programming from the
>> mega-chains, Hayes said. "We have a space for Curtis Mayfield," he said,
>> "and we'll also tell you about some great job opportunities, and help you
>> go back to school, if that's what you want. We're a radio station designed
>> to speak to people."
>>
>> Nearly 20 percent of Sacramento residents are African American, but the
>> black community there traditionally has not been well-defined. It wasn't
>> until two years ago that the city elected its first black mayor, Kevin
>> Johnson, a former NBA standout, and only one of fifteen Sacramento
>> commercial radio stations, 102.5 KSFM, ostensibly plays to a black audience
>> — and that station is owned by CBS and plays pre-programmed set lists.
>> Hayes claims that listenership at 102.5 KSFM has dropped ten percent over
>> the past year as KDEE has gained popularity.
>>
>> Hayes admits that he has no idea how many people listen to KDEE, but the
>> studio phone rings steadily. During an hour-long interview, he received
>> five calls and each time answered with a booming, "Good morning, family."
>>
>> Yet that rising popularity doesn't directly translate into economic
>> security for KDEE — or for any LPFM station. Unlike commercial radio
>> stations, where a boost in listeners often converts into more ad sales,
>> LPFM stations don't enjoy that luxury. FCC rules demand that LPFM stations
>> be hosted and managed by nonprofits, ruling out opportunities for
>> commercial ads or similar revenue streams.
>>
>> Hayes is more interested, though, in talking about the role that the
>> station plays in building community rather than making money. "I left Clear
>> Channel," he explained, leaning forward, his voice gaining pitch and
>> momentum. "I was just tired of it. You couldn't pay me enough to play the
>> same old stuff. I'm a grown-ass man, and I had to listen to that crap."
>>
>> Accordingly, his morning, drive-time, radio is called "Grown Folks
>> Music," which is followed on Thursdays by the award-winning "Going Green
>> Radio Hour," hosted by a DJ he calls "Enviro-Bro."
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> But economics are a reality, and an Achilles' heel for LPFM stations. The
>> California Black Chamber of Commerce, like most nonprofits, relies on
>> grants and donations, a revenue stream particularly susceptible to economic
>> ups and downs; over the past two years, according to filed IRS returns,
>> donations to the California Black Chamber of Commerce have fallen almost 50
>> percent. In 2010, the organization raised only $305,000, yet retained its
>> $500,000 annual budget (which includes expenses beyond the radio station).
>>
>> And, while KDEE's operating expenses may seem bare-bones, with only three
>> full-time employees, the Sacramento station actually enjoys what seems like
>> a princely budget when compared to other LPFM stations. LPFM proponents
>> report that stations can be launched for as little as $10,000, and most
>> LPFM stations don't have enough funds to pay staff. In nearby ag-town
>> Davis, for example, is the aptly-named KDRT — and, like most LPFM stations,
>> it's run by volunteers.
>>
>> "From eight to eighty years old," asserted station manager Jeff Shaw. All
>> told, about seventy volunteers staff the Davis radio station, working the
>> front desk, cataloging recordings, and hosting various call-in shows that
>> provide advice on everything from sex to soil conditions.
>>
>> Shaw pointed out that, last year, KDRT put one person on the payroll, a
>> sound engineer who spends dozens of hours each month recording local bands,
>> as well as hosting a popular show that plays those live-recorded tracks,
>> all for an annual salary of $2,000. "He certainly earns it!" exclaimed
>> Shaw. The sound engineer's brother, Bill Buchanan, a retired journalist,
>> also hosts a show for KDRT, a top-notch interview program that focuses on
>> heated local issues like water rights and ballot measures; he provides that
>> show for free, as a hobby.
>>
>> In addition to the tight economic constraints in which LPFM stations must
>> operate, they're also hamstrung by other FCC rules. Commercial radio
>> stations treat them as unwanted step-siblings. Technically called a
>> "secondary service," LPFM stations cannot interfere with any commercial
>> broadcast. When Congress and the FCC hammered out rules for the first round
>> of LPFM stations a decade ago, they were successfully petitioned by a bevy
>> of existing, full-powered stations to place large buffer zones on the radio
>> dial to protect existing signals from interference and static from the
>> community radio stations. In particular, the group lobbying for these rules
>> included an unlikely foe for community radio: National Public Radio.
>>
>> What resulted was called the "third adjacent rule," perhaps the greatest
>> constraint for LPFM stations. In the simplest terms, the rule said that
>> LPFM stations could not be within three clicks on the dial from any
>> full-power station. "The pie isn't growing any bigger," Shaw lamented,
>> referring to the limited number of frequencies on the FM dial, and that the
>> third adjacent rule effectively more than halved those available. "It is
>> how we decide to slice it up."
>>
>> The combination of the secondary service status and third adjacent rule
>> proved to be a potent one-two punch against LPFM stations. If a commercial
>> station moved into the area, it could bump a LPFM station from its
>> frequency — which is exactly what happened to KDRT in Davis five years ago
>> when KMJE, an "adult contemporary" station, decided to expand into
>> Sacramento Valley and requested the very frequency — 101.5 FM — on which
>> KDRT was broadcasting. The request threatened to knock KDRT off the dial
>> and out of business.
>>
>> Davis' mayor stepped up and declared a "Media Democracy Month," and
>> several local bands held benefit concerts. Support and small donations
>> poured in. On the studio door, there are still taped notes of support,
>> including a lengthy letter explaining one man's $5 donation in support of
>> KDRT's jug band hour. But all that community backing was to no avail. The
>> commercial station was granted its license, and KDRT was pushed from its
>> home on the dial. KDRT later found another radio frequency in the area
>> where it could shoehorn its broadcast signal without interrupting any
>> commercial broadcasts. The station now resides at 95.7.
>>
>> During the past year, the FCC has been busy negotiating new rules for
>> LPFM stations, deciding what allowances and restrictions would be in place
>> for this next round of licenses — and, not surprisingly, the most heated
>> debates flared up over the third adjacent rule. NPR was steadfast in its
>> support to keep the buffers — a position that made few friends in the LPFM
>> circles but has helped it add 150 more stations to its 635 affiliates over
>> the past decade, stations that would have had a decidedly more difficult
>> time finding adequate space on the airwaves if not given priority over LPFM
>> stations.
>>
>> Yet in spite of the heavy lobbying, the FCC released in March a
>> tongue-tying report entitled, "The Fifth Report and Order, Fourth Further
>> Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Fourth Order on Reconsideration." It was
>> a shocker; it sided with LPFM stations and tossed out the third adjacent
>> rule. It was a remarkable decision, and will allow more LPFM stations to
>> squeeze in on radio bands around the country, especially in urban areas.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Not surprisingly, micro-broadcasting has its roots in the ideals,
>> movements, and personalities of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. "It is
>> electronic civil disobedience," said Stephen Dunifer.
>>
>> Sitting in a windowless warehouse in Emeryville, wearing faded blue jeans
>> and an unbuttoned flannel shirt, his long gray hair pulled back tightly,
>> Dunifer looks like he came directly from central casting for "aging
>> hippie." Cluttered with motherboards and boxes of circuits, the bunker-like
>> space is as unassuming as the back room of a Radio Shack store. Two
>> college-age interns scurry in the background, assembling radio transmitters
>> and antennas. "People should occupy FM radio," he added in a slow, careful
>> cadence. "If we're going to do anything meaningful and long-term, we need
>> to build alternative institutions."
>>
>> Dunifer is so legendary among pirate radio enthusiasts that more than one
>> radio manager interviewed for this story claimed that Dunifer inspired the
>> movie *Pump Up the Volume*, the 1990 film starring Christian Slater as a
>> ham radio operator who hijacks local radio frequencies to titillate his
>> fellow high school students with brooding and horny soliloquies, and the
>> only teenage romance ever to feature the FCC as the villain. In fact,
>> Dunifer did not, but he has gone toe-to-toe with more FCC agents than any
>> living radio operator. And his pirate radio station helped inspire a
>> nationwide — if not global — movement toward micro-broadcasting, a trend
>> that in recent years has matured into a steely alternative to the
>> increasingly cookie-cutter — and corporately owned — stations that populate
>> the airwaves.
>>
>> Almost twenty years ago, Dunifer started broadcasting a Sunday-evening
>> pirate-radio show from his house in the Berkeley Hills, talking about
>> everything from the Gulf War to Earth First. After agents came knocking —
>> somewhat ironically, Dunifer explained, because they arrived just as he was
>> talking on the radio about how free speech allows public nudity — he took
>> the show mobile, hiking into the hills with a transmitter, a battery pack,
>> and an antenna.
>>
>> Unable to track down his pirate radio broadcasts, FCC agents took legal
>> action and tried to stop him with an injunction in federal court. But when
>> that injunction failed, Dunifer took advantage of the resulting legal
>> ambiguity to set up a round-the-clock station in a flophouse that made WKRP
>> seem like a monastery: "The point was to make a free-speech statement,"
>> Dunifer said.
>>
>> Part performance art, part anarchy, the Free Radio Berkeley station aired
>> shows from some four or five dozen people, including a steady stream of
>> punks and what Dunifer calls "various shades of black and piercings," and
>> shows by homeless men and women.
>>
>> Like many pioneering movements, Dunifer's local efforts were part of an
>> uncoordinated golden era: Throughout the Nineties, several other pirate
>> radio broadcasters also used radio as a means for community organizing;
>> most notably, a small-scale station, Black Liberation Radio, broadcasted —
>> and continues to do so — news to housing projects in Springfield, Illinois.
>> The station ran stories not being covered in the mainstream media,
>> including how the AIDS epidemic was disproportionately affecting the black
>> population. (Perhaps not coincidentally, a young, recent Harvard law school
>> graduate, Barack Obama, started his career as a community organizer in
>> those housing projects.)
>>
>> A smattering of other pioneering micro-broadcasting stations also popped
>> up across the country, including a Black Liberation Radio spin-off station
>> in nearby Decatur that paid particular attention to a contentious union
>> struggle against the machinery behemoth Caterpillar, and a station in
>> southern Florida that championed the rights of local tomato pickers.
>>
>> At the same time, pirate radio was taking on even more dramatic conflicts
>> internationally. B-92 in the former Yugoslavia operated from unknown
>> studios to chronicle the military conflict there (and continued to play
>> music throughout the Bosnian War). A quasi-station known as Bush Radio
>> organized anti-Apartheid forces by recording shows in Cape Town and
>> distributing them on cassette tapes around South Africa.
>>
>> But then, in 1996 (cue needle screeching across a record), President Bill
>> Clinton signed into law the Telecommunication Act of 1996, effectively
>> overwhelming the trend toward more locally grown radio stations. Most
>> notably, the law reversed decades of ownership restrictions that prohibited
>> a single corporation from holding multiple media stations in one market.
>>
>> Norm Stockwell, a radio manager for community radio station WORT in
>> Madison, Wisconsin and a longtime advocate for LPFM, calls the
>> Telecommunication Act a "massive giveaway" that set up a "land grab" by
>> corporate interests. Clear Channel, in particular, was busy, increasing the
>> stations it owned from 43 in 1996 to more than 1,000 five years later. "In
>> terms of what we should be doing with media in this country," Stockwell
>> said, "this was the exact opposite."
>>
>> But then something completely unexpected happened, and it came from a
>> surprising source: William Kennard, who had been the FCC's general counsel,
>> took over the agency and embarked on an international tour to learn about
>> radio in other countries. He was particularly interested in pirate radio
>> stations in South Africa and their role in that country's move toward
>> democracy. "It is important to note," Stockwell said, "Kennard is African
>> American and, in particular, the ownership [of radio stations] by African
>> Americans had dropped off a cliff" after the 1996 Telecommunication Act.
>>
>> When Kennard returned from overseas, he floated the radical idea of
>> inviting community groups to start their own radio stations. It would be
>> like ordering all the media moguls at Rockefeller Center in New York City
>> to invite Occupy Wall Street activists to host their own shows from ham
>> radio kits. Kennard proposed to issue eight hundred licenses for LPFM
>> stations to nonprofit groups.
>>
>> Not surprisingly, corporate interests railed against the idea, including
>> heavy lobbying from NPR, which complained that the new stations would
>> clutter the airwaves, especially the lower frequencies on which most NPR
>> stations exist.
>>
>> Remarkably, the proposal survived largely intact and, during the first
>> round of applications, the FCC was overwhelmed with reportedly more than
>> 12,000 applicants. Ultimately, eight hundred new licenses were issued, a
>> glut of new voices on the air.
>>
>> Compared to reality TV shows that tend to profile Americans as
>> middle-class suburban dwellers, micro-broadcasting stations around the
>> country provide a platform for diverse demographics. A coastal town in New
>> Hampshire, for example, broadcasts *All Things Gay*. And a station in
>> Louisiana provides a mix of zydeco music and tips about starting small
>> businesses.
>>
>> Perhaps also as an accurate mirror of "real" American life, half of the
>> LPFM licenses issued during the first round were given to religious
>> organizations and churches — certainly a reflection of the current
>> political and social dichotomies that tend to split Americans between
>> liberal and conservative.
>>
>> When asked if the FCC's allowance of the community radio stations is a
>> David versus Goliath story, Dunifer waved the question away. "That's a bit
>> hackneyed," he said. Dunifer's hands are knobby and bent. He has always
>> been a righteous thinker: At age thirteen in rural Kentucky, he once spent
>> an afternoon documenting decrepit county bridges and submitted the
>> photographs to the local newspaper; the resulting two-page spread sent
>> county officials scurrying. "It is a lot of Davids; it shows the power of
>> grassroots organizing to affect change from below."
>>
>> Dunifer does recognize the irony in the fact that the agency he fought
>> for more than a decade, the agency that sent agents chasing him into the
>> Berkeley Hills and dispatched lawyers from Washington DC for a full-court,
>> years-long legal battle, is now the very agency championing — or, at least
>> allowing — these stations to take to the air. "It is absolutely a big step
>> forward," he said. "We basically forced the FCC to do something they said
>> they would never do."
>>
>> But Dunifer's enthusiasm is tempered. "We're reclaiming resources that
>> belong to us, but when you go into licensure ... you compromise certain
>> things," he said. "I don't care if it is a driver's license or fishing
>> license, it is basically a contract. When that agency is the FCC, for
>> example, you give up constitutionally protected rights." He listed a few
>> examples, like, the seven dirty words you can't say on air, and the fact
>> that the FCC can enter a radio station without a warrant.
>>
>> Dunifer is hosting a series of four-day workshops starting May 25 to help
>> individuals and nonprofits apply for a LPFM license, and to launch their
>> own LPFM stations, teaching everything from legal aspects to the nuts and
>> bolts of building a transmitter.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> One local group is already jockeying to be one of the Bay Area's first
>> LPFM station. Starting two years ago, Alameda Community Radio began
>> gathering at the local library every other week to figure out how to
>> convince the FCC to award one of its coveted LPFM licenses to the island
>> city. "It was amazing the radio backgrounds that have been brought out,"
>> said Susan Galleymore, one of the primary organizers.
>>
>> "Former radio hosts, engineers, people who had been involved with college
>> radio — a bunch of radio experience already existed in the community," she
>> continued. Galleymore's own background includes journalism and radio
>> production. After her son served in Iraq and Afghanistan, she wrote a book,
>> *Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War and Terror*.
>>
>> Galleymore affectionately refers to Alameda as "this little town" and
>> noted that, although situated near major cities, it has its own unique
>> personality — along with its own politics and controversies. But those
>> "little town" comings and goings are often overwhelmed by powerful
>> personalities in nearby San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, and ignored
>> by the area's TV, radio, and newspapers, which focus on the bigger cities.
>>
>> To gather interest in local issues — and as a preface for the potential
>> radio station there — Galleymore has been creating podcasts over the past
>> year, called "Alameda Topics," on everything from golf courses to a recent
>> controversy over an animal shelter. While her podcasts are only available
>> online, Galleymore said she prefers real radio, especially as a means to
>> build community. "The access is so immediate and the access is so easy,"
>> she said. "It is easier to turn on the dial in your car or in your house,
>> and it is so much better than sitting down in front of a computer."
>> Galleymore agreed that there is something "old-style" about radio, and
>> believes that is also part of its resurgent appeal.
>>
>> Based on the response to the first round of LPFM licensing ten years ago,
>> the competition in these coming months will be heated. The FCC considers
>> each applicant based on a scorecard that looks at a community's need for a
>> unique voice and at the general organization of the nonprofit applying —
>> considerations that could favor an organization like Alameda Community
>> Radio, which has been preparing for the past two years.
>>
>> But these very considerations also have tended to favor churches and
>> religious organizations, which have built-in audiences and tend to have
>> strong organizational track records. In the last round of licensing,
>> roughly half of the licenses issued were given to religious organizations.
>> The FCC even split one license in Madison, Wisconsin between two applicants
>> — a church and a group of self-declared secular progressives. The two
>> groups split the day with twelve hours of programming each. Progressives
>> follow the church group's programming with an "atheist hour." Of 61
>> existing LPFM stations in California, 27 were given to churches, including
>> stations like KKJD, hosted by Borrego Springs Christian Center, and KCYC in
>> Yuba City, which is run by North Valley Calvary Chapel.
>>
>> But Alameda Community Radio does have one unique competitive edge in its
>> application: It already has infrastructure for a radio station. Several
>> decades ago, KJAZ, a once-popular music station, broadcast from the
>> island's western edge. In 1994, though, the station was purchased by a
>> Texas corporation and eventually moved. But the antenna is still standing,
>> unused, near the library where the group currently meets. According to
>> Galleymore, the owner is excited to rent it out again.
>>
>> Galleymore admits that her group had begun to lose steam over the past
>> year as the FCC remained vague about when it would begin to consider
>> applications. But now that deadlines are being announced, Galleymore is
>> seeing a return of enthusiasm. "Everyone wants to host their own program,"
>> she said, laughing. "It is really exciting."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> hi everyone,
>>
>> shani awesomely went through all of the things that all of you have
>> donated this weekend and we've put the current inventory on the sudo radio
>> wiki project page: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Projects/sudoradio
>>
>> if anyone wants to work on sudo radio stuff tomorrow after the meeting,
>> that would be a good time.
>>
>> also, would people be available this sunday afternoon to talk next steps,
>> finish any equipment setups, and start planning content? how does 2:30 on
>> sunday sound?
>>
>> - marina
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