Category: The Media

Gore’s Network

INdTV – Home
Don’t think I have said anything about this in the past. Maybe I have.. Well, I figured I would put something up because I just got a mass recruiting email from them.

I spent about 5 minutes with them a couple weeks ago and didn’t really come away with anything interesting but what they say they are trying to do on their site is interesting.

From the site:
We are an independent media company led by former Vice President Al Gore, entrepreneur Joel Hyatt and a growing team of industry professionals and young creatives. We are coming together around a common mission: to share the world’s most dominant media platform – television – with people who want an outlet for their creativity, their voices heard and their perspectives valued.

A snippet of what is to come for Forbes readers..


Yahoo! News – Is TV Next?
They say that the internet is a “problem” for TV.. Hmmn, I would welcome a bit of a shake up, perhaps only those companies willing to embrace the technology and social power of the internet will survive. Wouldn’t that be nice..
From the article:
The problem is, the Internet is one big dumb pipe. It doesn’t know or care whether it is carrying a Web page, a phone call or a sitcom. It’s a pipe, in other words, perfectly designed for whacking established industries over the head.

Air America really streams

RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Air America broke a couple of records for concurrent streams on it’s first day out of the gate. The article mentions some interesting metrics for internet radio.
RealNetworks said that it delivered 50,000 concurrent streams on the network’s first day of broadcasting (March 31), which the company says makes it the highest-ever usage of the Real Broadcast Network for a “non-breaking news service.”

Cell phones supporting interactive FM radio

Nokia, HP ‘Visualize’ Mobile Radio
Nokia is apparently making a couple of handsets that are capable of receiving FM broadcasts and synchronizing visuals and other media elements. Very interesting…
From the article:
“The FM radio capabilities are based on standard tuners embedded in the handset. The Visual Radio service picks up a user’s location over GPRS and is able to pinpoint which radio stations are in the area,” Reidar Wasenius, Nokia senior project manager told internetnews.com.

Fighting for LPFM (Low Power FM) in the Cities

About the Prometheus Radio Project!
What is Prometheus all about:
To serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters
To research and develop technical resources in anticipation of legalized micro-radio. Upon legalization, we will offer technical services to non-commercial micro-stations- equipment testing, frequency searching, submitting FCC applications, studio advice and so on
To sponsor and produce educational tours, conferences, events and literature on microradio and democratic media issues.
To serve as a public interest advocate on microradio issues, and to help facilitate public participation in the FCC rulemaking and legislative process.
To help start a regional micropower association, which could eventually serve as a self-regulating association for low power fm analagous to the ARRL for HAM radio. Until this is formed, we will perform some of its future functions, primarily performing a coordinating and secretarial role to facilitate communications among existing stations.