 | National Civil Rights and Public Interest Groups Ask FCC to Immediately Fix Wireless Auction Rules Meant to Help Small Businesses Compete with Large Companies http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/prnewswire/press_releases/national/District_of_Columbia/2009/04/02/PH93879 Leaders from ten prominent civil rights, women and minority interest organizations have been making the rounds meeting with FCC Commissioners asking them to reverse 2006 rule changes that, since adopted, have virtually eliminated the ability of small and minority businesses to compete against large wireless companies for valuable spectrum at FCC auctions. |
 | Public Interest Groups Criticize ‘Privatization’ of Broadband Mapping
Oakland-CA - The $350 million broadband mapping program required by the recent stimulus bill would be set back if there is widespread participation in it by a group called Connected Nation, according to a new report issued by Public Knowledge and the Media and Democracy Coalition. |
 | Eloise Lee on the Digital Television Transition - Hard Knock Radio MA program director Eloise Lee in conversation with Anita Johnson about the digital television transition, community media and where we go from here. |
| National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events held in the state of California in 2008 where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet. |
| Oakland Digital Television Center Assistance Center Launched Now open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 11am-5pm at 1431 23rd Avenue in Oakland. (510) 533-7266. Update February 4, 2009 - Transition date rescheduled to June 12, 2009 |
| The Day TV Goes Away: The Digital Television Transition KQED Interview with Tracy Rosenberg (Op-Ed) On February 17, 2009, analog television signals will stop. |
| Digital switch goes smoothly for local stations
by Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle Local broadcasters who made the switch to digital television at midnight Tuesday reported fewer than expected complaint calls Wednesday, easing fears that the early transition from analog signals would cause widespread disruptions. |
| 4 Bay Area Stations to Shut Off Analog Signals Early by Carolyn Saed, San Francisco Chronicle our Bay Area Television Stations, including KOFY and KICU to Shut Off Analog Signals on February 17th, 2009 Major Bay Area Network Affiliates to Go Digital-Only on June 12th, 2009 Oakland-The Federal Communications Commission publicly released a comprehensive list of broadcasters who petitioned for an early analog shutoff. In the Bay Area, major broadcasters making the request included KICU – Channel 6 and KOFY – Channel 20, along with KCNS and KFTY. |
| Our Vision for the Future It's easy to criticize. Too easy. But what is the affirmative vision for a 21st century media that works to advance peace, justice and social responsibility? |
| Digital Infrastructure: By the Community, For the Community by Eloise Lee
In East Palo Alto, we’ve realized that it’s not a case of ‘if you build it, they will come.’ |
 | Police Incident at KPFA Community journalist roughed up after KPFA-FM calls police on volunteer. Training program graduate and former Elemental Roots co-host Nadra Foster forcibly removed from radio station offices. |
 | The Low-Access People: Tiny Grey-Garcia's Notes on the NCMR It's the snow that appears late at night on our TV... it can reach across oceans and mountain ranges and beyond...it has the potential to provide a channel of access to many independent broadcasters, which is why the big telecoms are trying to seize it,"explained Eloise Rose Lee, from Media Alliance based in California, one of five people speaking at "The Future of the Internet" panel at the National Conference of Media Reform held in Minneapolis last week. |
| The FCC Bus: One Person's Story I sat in a dark, foreboding hall at Stanford University listening to the words of resistance of Gloria Esteva (staff writer of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork and member of the Voces de Immigrantes en Resistencia at the Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR). As I listened I felt truly inspired. |
| FCC Got an Earful on April 17th at Stanford Thanks to Media Alliance members and our SavetheInternet allies, the FCC hearing at Stanford on April 17th was a stirring call for a free and open Internet, a strong condemnation of random telecom interference with data traveling over their networks, and a clear statement on media in the public interest. Pictures from the hearing: The Raging Grannies, commissioners and panelists , public testimony . 40 of the 75-person public comment participants were trainees from Media Alliance speaker workshops or passengers on the "FCC Bus" that traveled from the Bay Area to Stanford with folks from Poor News Network, KPFA First Voice, the Bayview Newspaper and Allen Temple Baptist Church. Video archive of the hearing and an audio mashup |
| The Tangled Web of SF Wi-Fi and New Opportunities in Oakland
Editorial: The recent collapse of the Google-Earthlink San Francisco municipal broadband initiative (as well as the creaking of all the other Earthlink-linked efforts nationwide) is both sobering and in some ways, an opportunity for digital inclusion advocates. Seeing a lot of effort come to nothing is always frustrating: especially in the face of an acute digital divide. |
| Media Alliance and UCC Delay Tribune Lawsuit The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided to put off hearing Tribune's challenge of the FCC's decision to grant it waivers to complete the deal to sell the company to investor Sam Zell due to a lawsuit filed by Media Alliance and the United Church of Christ Media Justice Campaign. |
| DTV Help Centers Team Up to Deal with E-Waste The digital television transition, completed successfully by the United States on June 12, 2009, is generating a large flow of electronic waste as consumers continue to upgrade their televisions. We all want to recycle responsibly, but how? |
| 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. |
 | 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. |
 | Media Alliance in Mother Jones |