Last week, students from the University of Houston’s Upward Bound program visited KPFT to learn about radio. Upward Bound is a program aimed at welcoming high school students to campus to experience college life before graduating high school. Here are a few shots from that visit. Thanks to Willie Kelly at Upward Bound for his [...]
As of August 1, Open Journal, KPFT’s experiment in community-inspired radio, will undergo a number of important changes. These changes are being undertaken in the interests of making a more accessible, more dynamic program.Open Journal is the only radio program of its kind in Houston and, very likely, anywhere else. It permits the public an [...]
PROPOSED PACIFICA BY-LAWS AMENDMENT ALLOWING FOR A SECOND AT-LARGE MEMBER OF THE PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD
/Proposed by 6 Directors of the Pacifica National Board:/
* Teresa Allen, KPFT listener director
* Lydia Brazon, KPFK listener director
* Lisa Davis, WBAI listener director
* Bob Lederer, WBAI staff director
* Rob Robinson, WPFW listener director
* Don White, KPFK listener director
/Article 5, Section [...]
The following jobs openings have been posted at www.ncra.ca.
PROJECTS CO-ORDINATOR
CKXU 88.3 FM
Location: Lethbridge, AB
Closing Date: 29 June, 2006
You can view the complete posting at:
http://www.ncra.ca/business/JobPostings/dspJobPostingsDetail.cfm?ID=43133
Posted: 22 June, 2006
SPOKEN WORD COORDINATOR
CHRY Radio
Location: Toronto, ON
Closing Date: 7 July, 2006
You can view the complete posting at:
http://www.ncra.ca/business/JobPostings/dspJobPostingsDetail.cfm?ID=42845
Posted: 14 June, 2006
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
CFMH 92.5 FM inc.
Location: Saint John, NB
Closing Date: 14 July, [...]
Statement of Prometheus Radio Project on the Resumption of the Media Ownership Proceeding
In June of 2004, Prometheus Radio Project won its lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, when the FCC attempted to deregulate corporate media ownership in the United States.
"Prometheus Radio Project is a grassroots organization that helps small neighborhood groups to start radio stations. [...]
Alternative Press Review is one of those publications that simply defies description. It helped define a genre for which magazines like Utne Reader profit handsomely from, though one could persuasively argue that it has often been inconsistent, whiny and tends to be a vehicle of its editors (whose all-male crew most certainly make liberal use [...]
Amid sharp partisan differences, federal regulators on Wednesday commenced a sweeping review of rules that limit corporations' ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers.Acting for the first time since a federal court rejected previous rules, the Federal Communications Commission requested comments on local ownership limits for radio and TV, [...]
KPFT hosts the University of Houston’s Upward Bound program today in the building. About 25 students will join us to learn about radio. Tune in today for students’ work with us!
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Many programmers have requested Audacity trainings and other learning opportunities. So, July is "KPFT Training Month: Programmer Toolbox." Every Monday and Wednesday at noon, Luke Jones (who many of you know as KPFT’s youth reporter and voice behind many a station announcement) hosts training workshops [...]
Monday, June 19: National Call-In Day to Renew the Voting Rights ActTake Action!
Plan to Call House Leaders ( Hastert and Boehner) and Your Representative Toll-Free (1- 866-808-0065) on Monday, June 19th to Urge Passage of H.R. 9, a Bipartisan Bill to Renew and Restore the Voting Rights Act
Monday, June 19: National Call-In Day to Renew [...]
From the Soros Foundation:
I seek your assistance in reaching outstanding individuals for the upcoming round of Soros Justice Fellowships. The Fellowship Program supports new and seasoned lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, activist academics, print and radio journalists and filmmakers to implement innovative projects that address one or more of the criminal justice priorities of OSI's [...]
Opportunity to Participate in Radio and New Media Technology Training WorkshopRadio Reporting Using Digital Technology Training Workshop
25 July – 1 August, 2006, Media Centre Panos South Asia (PSA), Kathmandu, Nepal
Radio continues to be the most effective medium of communication and information dissemination in the developing world. Despite the [...]
MEDIA & PROPAGANDA CONFERENCE (MAY 2007)
20 YEARS OF PROPAGANDA?
Critical Discussions & Evidence on the Ongoing
Relevance of the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model
Conference Date/Place: May 15-17, 2007
University of Windsor Communication Studies (Windsor, Canada)
Conference Chair: Dr. Paul D. Boin (pboin@uwindsor.ca)
Conference Website: http://www.uwindsor.ca/propaganda
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing [...]
A volunteer is needed to come to Madagascar this August to help build a low-power FM radio station. The station will be based in the rural community of Antsaravibe, in Northern Madagascar. It will be run by AINGA, a local community organisation which works to:
improve the quality of life in the community,
provide education on [...]
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking sites
By Paul Marks, NewScientist.com news service
June 9, 2006
“I am continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves.” So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social [...]
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today announced that contestants can continue to submit entries for the “Whale Remix Project” until August 30. The innovative music contest asks users to create their own songs using the sounds of the humpback whale in order to raise awareness about Japan’s illegal whale [...]
As program director, I get the opportunity to hear what people think about programming in a way that no one else does. Like a paramedic or a dog catcher, I also get to see the best and worst of humanity. I want to share some of those experiences as a cautionary tale for those [...]
From the National Federation of Community Broadcasters:
Having solved all the other problems facing people in the U.S. and the world, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (S. 193) raising the FCC's maximum indecency fine to $325,000 per violation or each day of a continuing violation (subject to a maximum of $3 million).
The bill [...]
Today for KPFT listeners comes from a guy I would like to think is a local music myth and legend. I say this, of course, because I’ve known Mike Switzer since my early loudmouth days at the University of Houston. Even back then, Mike was a [...]
At least three local journalists were detained by the Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Friday as part of a growing crackdown on the U.S.-based news site Freedom Newspaper, local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The three were arrested after their names and addresses appeared on a list of purported Freedom Newspaper contributors [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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