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Recent press releases issued by Media Alliance. Sometimes we'll post newspaper, radio and broadcast interviews here as well.


Helen Thomas Speaking at Media Alliance's 30th Anniversary Party in 2006
July 27th, 2013
The recently-deceased maverick reporter speaks at Media Alliance's 30th Anniversary party in 2006.

Media Alliance Joins With 19-Associations To Sue the NSA, DOJ and FBI Over Telephone MetaData Collection
by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
July 16th, 2013
San Francisco- Media Alliance joined 18 other not for profit membership associations, including the CalGuns Foundation, Greenpeace, People for the American Way, the Council on islamic-American Relations and many others, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) against the National Security Administration (NSA) , the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Named defendants included Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander and National Intelligence Director James Clapper.

86 Organizations Petition Congress To Counter Unconstitutional Surveillance
June 11th, 2013
A letter signed by 86 public interest and civil liberties organizations was delivered to Congress this morning, in the wake of a week of explosive reports in the UK Guardian and the Washington Post from former Booz Allen NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Scandalous Privatization of Noncommercial TV Spectrum
by Ellen Goodman, RIIPL Blog
May 29th, 2013
Ellen Goodman writes about KCSM-TV for Rutgers University

SMCCD Board Liquidates KCSM-TV
by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
May 18th, 2013
On Wednesday May 15th, three San Mateo Community College board trustees approved an unseen contract with Locuspoint Networks, a 99%-owned subsidiary of hedge firm The Blackstone Group, to liquidate the 48-year-old noncommercial TV station KCSM in a spectrum auction.

San Mateo Community College District Refuses to Be Open About KCSM TV Sale
by Tracy Rosenberg, The Advocate
May 10th, 2013
Updating the San Mateo community on the sale of the non-commercial TV station KCSM-TV, which has been housed at the College of San Mateo since 1964, is no easy task.

Alameda: Community radio holding entertainment, information event
by Nanette Deetz, Alameda Times-Star
Alameda Community Radio will host an evening of entertainment and information from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday about new plans for low power FM radio in Alameda.

Keep KCSM TV in Public Hands - The Advocate
by Tracy Rosenberg, The Advocate: American Federation of Teachers Local 1493
April 2nd, 2013
Article in the American Federation of Teachers newspaper on the KCSM-TV threatened dissolution via spectrum sale.

KGO Feature on Low-Power Radio and Common Frequency
by Jonathan Bloom, KGO Evening News
The ABC Evening News featured low-power radio, Common Frequency and Media Alliance and the Local Community Radio Act. Watch the Video!

Project Censored Radio Show: Media Change 2013
by Project Censored Radio, KPFA Radio Morning Mix
Corporate media hegemony, top down managed news propaganda, and grassroots resistance with Prof. Robert Hackett of Simon Fraser University and Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance.

California's 5th Largest Public TV Station May be Scrapped for Wireless Spectrum
by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
November 16th, 2012
At a Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday November 14th, the San Mateo Community College District, which operates 3 community colleges (Skyline College, Canada College and the College of San Mateo), discussed the fate of the noncommercial television license they have owned since 1964 - KCSM TV. KCSM's signal reaches 10 Bay Area counties and is broadcast on 60 municipal cable systems throughout the Bay Area.

Pacifica's WBAI Radio Station in New York, Silenced by Sandy, is Back on the Air!
http://www.pacifica.org
The Nixon administration couldn't do it. Neither could the Clinton or Bush administrations. But yesterday, hurricane Sandy turned off the mics at WBAI, the historic Pacifica Foundation New York radio station that has been a listener-sponsored gadfly afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted since 1960.

Tavis Smiley Announces the Return of Smiley & West to the Chicago Airwaves With Two New Affiliates
by Joe Zefran, Smiley & West
Smiley Radio Properties, Inc. (SRP) celebrates the second anniversary of its popular radio program, Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI), with the addition of two new affiliates in Chicago, IL.

KCSM-TV Sale Postponed
October 25th, 2012
On October 24th, the San Mateo Community College District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to reject the final two bidders (of an original six) for the broadcast license for KCSM Television, bringing to an end an 18-month process by the District to try to sell the television broadcast license housed at the College of San Mateo since 1964.

Sale of KCSM-TV still in limbo; District holds out on public information request
American Federation of Teachers Advocate
September 30th, 2012
In May the District announced the upcoming sale of KSCM-TV, the noncommercial TV station it has owned and operated for 48 years. Their action was part of an epidemic of higher education institutions nationwide ridding themselves of educational TV and radio licenses. At that time, Media Alliance, a Bay Area public interest group that advocates for press freedom and media access and accountability, filed a public information request to make the list of bidders public.

MA Founding Member Gar Smith Publishes "Nuclear Roulette:The Truth About The Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth"
by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
In Nuclear Roulette, award-winning journalist Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind this “renaissance.” Some critiques are familiar—nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable. Others may surprise, such as the industry’s historic links to nuclear weapons, its impacts on indigenous lands and lives, the unforeseen hazards of earthquakes and climate change, the costly challenge of dismantling plants, and the unsolved problem of storing radioactive waste.

GROUPS URGE CONGRESSWOMAN LEE TO PUSH BACK AGAINST KICKBACKS
Prison Phone Justice Campaign
A delegation of organizations from the California Bay Area met with the Deputy District Director of Congresswoman Barbara Lee to discuss the high cost of receiving a phone call from a prison, jail or detention center.

Petition Filed to Halt Sale of WRVU
Nashville, TN – July 5, 2012 – Attorneys Michael Couzens and Alan Korn, acting on behalf of WRVU Friends & Family, have filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the renewal of license for the Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU Nashville.

What's Left of the Dial
by Steve Haruch, Nashville Scene
For a surreal stretch of hours last June, a radio tuned to 91.1 FM in Nashville did nothing but emit bottomless, hissing static. The erstwhile WRVU, which for decades beamed out an engaging, erratic mishmash of everything from punk rock to country classics, jump blues to hip-hop, had been sold to local NPR affiliate WPLN, its signal cut off abruptly.

Save KUSF and MA Advocate Against Loopholes in Fundraising Rules
Save KUSF volunteers and Media Alliance filed comments with the FCC pointing out loopholes in proposed rule changes which put public airwaves at risk of further consolidation.

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