http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.1 2012-02-11T17:10:32-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-03T12:06:00-06:00 2009-11-03T12:06:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Kristin Thomson, Education Director, Future of Music Coalition, wants the FCC to become data central for radio information – down to the level of knowing how much time is spent covering high school sports http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-03T15:11:48-06:00 2009-11-03T15:11:48-06:00 Scott Todd You can tell these folks have never worked in radio, or if they have it's never been more than a few hours a week at some college station. Besides, how many big market stations could make high school sports profitable? Small markets, yes, but even a top 100 market? http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-03T15:21:06-06:00 2009-11-03T15:21:06-06:00 dumb guy looks like a political agenda at work to drown radio in more paperwork...cause radio allows talk shows to say not nice things about you know who... read the bio and decide. from her website: Kristin ThomsonKristin Thomson is a community organizer, social policy researcher, entrepreneur and musician. After graduating with a BA in Sociology from Colorado College in 1989, Kristin moved to Washington, DC where she worked for two years as a national action organizer for the National Organization for Women. She left NOW in 1992 to make a full-time commitment to Simple Machines, an independent record label she co-ran with Jenny Toomey. Over the label’s 8-year history, Simple Machines released over seventy records and CDs, published the Mechanic’s Guide to Putting Out Records, Cassettes, and CDs, and organized three high-profile music festivals in Washington, DC. While running the label, Kristin and Jenny also wrote, recorded and released four highly-acclaimed Tsunami records on Simple Machines, and toured the US, Canada, England and Europe extensively.After Simple Machines stopped putting out new records in 1998, Kristin permanently relocated to Philadelphia, PA where she lives with her husband Bryan Dilworth, a concert promoter, their son Riley, and plays guitar in the lady-powered band, Ken. In 2001, Kristin graduated with a Masters in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware. During her graduate program she was a recipient of a School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Fellowship, and the Urban Affairs Association Award that recognized her thesis, The Internet as an Agent of Change, as a valuable contribution to the body of usable social knowledge. As FMC’s Education Director, Kristin is responsible for project management and research, and has overseen event programming, including recent Future of Music Policy Summits. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband Bryan Dilworth, a concert promoter, and their son, where she also plays guitar in the lady-powered band, Ken. http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-03T21:58:27-06:00 2009-11-03T21:58:27-06:00 George The FCC has no reason to do this, and they're already understaffed to do what they're supposed to do. The FCC will do what it normally does with things like this: Ignore it. http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-04T12:56:37-06:00 2009-11-04T12:56:37-06:00 dale weston This is political BS once again! Keep the Feds out of media censorship. Where's the outrage on mass media? Come on gang, the public will loose one of the most crucial Constitutional rights with this kind of legislature. Let's put partisan politics aside here for the betterment of all media, especially radio from the Colonials in New Hampshire, "Live Free or Die!"Hollywood's new movie, "Pirate Radio," is touting the mediums strengths to air rock music in a censored England. If the FCC (Federal Communist Censorship) gets their way, I guess Americans will need to await their own version of Pirate Radio just know the truth and facts about any issue, even high school sports...What a sham. And shame on us for allowing this kind of legislature. http://www.rbr.com/radio/18221.html 2009-11-05T19:49:42-06:00 2009-11-05T19:49:42-06:00 Brian McTear The point of the study is to show that radio has become far less locally relevant, and far more syndicated since 1996. Far fewer companies control all of the radio programming. If the radio waves are the property of the people, then why would it be acceptable for them to be controlled by so few corporations? There's no political agenda. No desire to censor. The fact is that everything that was predicted about the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, everything that the industry insisted would not occur, has occurred.