 | Low-Power Radio: No Urban Blackout Zones MA filed these comments with the FCC on March 8th asking for the commission to consider lower watt service in urban markets where the band is too crowded to allow significant low power service for residents including: San Jose, Detroit, and New York City. |
_2.jpg) | KGO Evening News on Low-Power Radio KGO Evening News The KGO Evening News featured a story on low-power radio, Common Frequency and Media Alliance. Watch the Video! |
_2.jpg) | Al-Jazeera Purchases Current TV: Plans Launch of "Al-Jazeera America" by Rory O'Connor, Media Channel Al-Jazeera, the Qatari news channel whose coverage of Arab Spring electrified the world, and then whose coverage in Bahrain and Syria appalled the world, in an example of the challenges faced by government-owned media outlets, has purchased Current TV for the price of 500 million dollars, purchasing the carriage on cable systems that they were otherwise unable to secure. |
_1.jpg) | No More Media Consolidation! by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Comments Filed 12-26 with the FCC Saying No More! |
 | Wisconsin Advocates File Petitions to Deny for 2 Talk Radio Stations by Sue Wilson, Media Action Center MA fiscal sponsee, Media Action Center (MAC) has filed petitions to deny for 2 Wisconsin talk radio stations: Clearchannel's WISN and Journals WMTJ on the basis of disregarding broadcaster's public interest obligations. |
_4.jpg) | Santa Rosa Paper Sold to Democratic Power Brokers by Brett Wilkison, San Jose Mercury News The Press-Democrat and associated properties have been sold by Florida-based Halifax to a group of North Bay investors led by former Congressman Doug Bosco. |
_2.jpg) | KCSM-TV Bids by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance October 26th, 2012 In response to Media Alliance's public records request, the six bids received for KCSM-TV's broadcast license have been provided by the San Mateo Community College District Board of Trustees. |
.jpg) | Media Monopoly is Bad News for Americans by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Update 12/4: Early unconfirmed reports indicate the ownership vote has been pushed back until at least January 2013. Thanks to you! |
.jpg) | MA and National Lawyers Guild Oppose Loosening of 3rd Party Fundraising Rules Media Alliance and the National Lawyers Guild Committee on Democratic Communications filed comments opposing FCC plans to loosen the restrictions on 3rd party fundraising by noncommercial broadcasters. |
| Get a Low-Power Radio Station! by Michi Eyre, REC Networks In preparation for the historic low-power radio filing window, here are some tools to find out what's available in your community. |
 | KCSM-TV Sale Postponed August 11th, 2012 Update: 10/25 - The San Mateo Community College District has rejected all bidders in the sale of KCSM-TV. MA's pending public records request for all of the bid documentation will be fulfilled this week - (six months after the request was filed). The board stated that they are still determined to sell the broadcast license and will embark on a new RFP process. |
_1.jpg) | Low-Power Radio Filing Window October 2013! by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Northern California LPFM Outreach Volunteer Workshops: Sacto/Davis 2/8 (4pm) and Bay Area 2/11 (6pm). Help make radio. Stay tuned! |
 | KUSF One Year Later Update: On August 15th, in a tribute of sorts, the fabled call letters of KUSF, which will be remembered forever by music fans, were transferred to a yet-to-be-constructed station at 91.3 in Glendale, Oregon owned by community radio facilitators Common Frequency. |
| Coast is Clear for Low-Power Radio On March 19th, the FCC released an order clearing the way for the expansion of low-power radio service into cities and towns. |
 | Political Ads Come to Public Broadcasting by Pamela McLean, Trial Insider, New America Media The Bay Area KTMP-Channel 32 was granted an appeal by the 9th Circuit Court allowing educational broadcasters to accept paid political advertisements. |
 | Bay Citizen to Merge with Center for Investigative Reporting Your Call - KALW Update 3/27/12 Bay Citizen announces the merger is official. |
 | KCSM-TV Up For Sale by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post December 1st, 2011 As part of an epidemic of higher education institutions nationwide ridding themselves of educational TV and radio licenses, the San Mateo Community College District in Northern California has announced the upcoming sale of KSCM-TV, the noncommercial TV station it has owned and operated for 48 years. |
 | KGO Radio - Cumulus Cleans House by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Update 12/15: Video coverage from OakFoSho here. |
| Civil Rights and the Airwaves by New American Foundation, http://newamerica.net/events/2012/on_the_airwaves November 17th, 2011 A panel on the social justice implications of the upcoming low power radio window and how we can't waste this opportunity. |
 | Green 960 Exiled by Clearchannel to HD by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Update 1/7 - Glenn Beck is coming to San Francisco |