Digital Disconnect

Submitted by Doug Greer on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 15:07
Robert McChesney's latest book, Digital Disconnect, is a must read for any and all media activists! Who's interested in starting a book club for Media Reform?
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At the NCMR in Denver

Submitted by Doug Greer on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 18:42
NCMR 2013

Tom Crane, Tom Klammer and Doug Greer are at the National Conference for Media Reform. You may see one of us on the live stream broadcast by Free Speech TV: http://conference.freepress.net/stream.
Coverage of this year's NCMR will begin on Fri, April 5 at 11 am CDT. Here is a direct link to the Free Speech TV live stream: http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv (currently they are showing interviews from the 2011 NCMR).

Joseph Torres, Keynote Speaker at GRC 2012

Submitted by Tom Crane on Sat, 07/28/2012 - 13:02

Joesph Torres in his keynote address outlined what he has written - a landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media - is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial newspaper to the Internet age.

Friday GRC 2012 fotos

Submitted by Tom Crane on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 13:06

Grassroots Radio Conference 2012

Submitted by Tom Crane on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 12:42
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FCM Chair Doug Greer at GRC conference in Urbana
Illinois

Board election results from annual meeting

Submitted by Tom Crane on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 16:06

Congratulations to the Friends of Community Media board members elected at the annual FCM meeting!

Kristin Rhodes, Lucky Garcia, Evan Harmon, Mike Murphy, and Mike Nichols

FCM Meeting on 6/4/12 6:30 PM

Submitted by Tom Crane on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 01:59

The next meeting of Friends of Community Media will be at KKFI (Main & 39th - back door) on Monday, June 4th at 6:30 PM in one of the KKFI conference rooms.

I’d like to congratulate all the new people who volunteered to serve on the board. Here’s a proposed agenda for the general meeting, followed by the board meeting to elect officers of the FCM non-profit corporation. It’s really great to have new and enthusiastic people working with the group to carry on its important mission of making the media more accessible and accountable to the people

2012 Grassroots Radio Conference

Submitted by Tom Crane on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 16:52

Last August, Friends of Community Media and KKFI FM hosted the national Grassroots Radio Conference in Kansas City. KKFI and FCM won by rafffle, the travelling quilt for the GRC last year, and it is shown in the picture above hanging in the KKFI studios.

This year the conference will be held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. For more info:

http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org/

Corporate FM Showing this weekend!

Submitted by Tom Crane on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 16:28
Corporate FM poster

Kansas City film maker, Kevin McKinney will show his new documentary on how the take-over of commercial stations by large corporations in a similar way they took over the housing industry, is affecting all radio including public and community-radio. Crown Center theater - Friday 8:30PM, Saturday 8:30PM, Sunday 2:30PM. Director will attend all screenings for intro and Q&A afterward. Tickets at http://www.screenland.com/​crowncenter Trailer at http://fmfilm.com/

FCC and community stations 2012

Submitted by Tom Crane on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 18:19

Taken from an email to Friends of Community Media 5/12

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There is an important movement underfoot to FREE THE AIRWAVES &
make space for community broadcasting across the United States. The
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently writing the rules
that will bring hundreds, if not thousands, of new local radio stations
to America's FM dial.

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