From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 13:26:27 PST
Message-Id: <a06230903c016a9c8e896@[192.168.0.5]> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:26:27 -0800 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Fwd: Future or Radio Cybersalon Feb. 19
a follow up to podcasting. sorry about the run-on
nature of this email. I don't have time to format
it. Just passing it along. m
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>BERKELEY CYBERSALON: The Future of Radio 5-7 p.m., Sunday, February
>19, 2005 The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley Radio is changing
>in two radically divergent ways: big broadcasters like Clear Channel
>that rely on advertising are buying up little stations, while
>subscriber-based satellite channels, public radio channels, and
>podcasts are proliferating. What’s a listener to do? Come hear from
>experts in public radio, commercial radio, and the mechanics of radio
>what you can expect from radio in the future and how you can make
>intelligent choices about your future and radio as well. Carol
>Pierson, President and CEO
>carol@nfcb.org
>Carol Pierson represents community radio at the national and regional
>level with Congress, the FCC, funders, and networks, as well as other
>national and regional organizations. To further NFCB's role as a
>supporting umbrella for its various constituencies, she worked with
>the Native American stations following up on the Inter-Tribal Native
>Radio Summit and with the Latino controlled stations to organize the
>Latino Station Summit. In addition to providing organizational and
>fiscal leadership, Carol works to develop resources that will help
>NFCB members in revising The Public Radio Legal Handbook; writing
>Digital Audiocraft; direct consulting with stations on management,
>operations, planning and board development.
>
>Prior to NFCB Carol served as Program Director and Director of Radio
>Productions at KQED-FM in San Francisco for ten years. Previously,
>she was Assistant Station Manager, Director of Operations and
>National Programming Director at WGBH-FM in Boston. Her radio career
>started at WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH, where she was Public Affairs
>Director and Assistant Manager for three years. In her spare time,
>Carol sings soprano with the La Peña Community Chorus in Berkeley.
>Gregg McVicar -- Independent Producer -- http://www.radiocamp.com/
>Gregg McVicar grew up in Walnut Creek, listening daily to KPFA,
>underground KMPX and progressive KSAN. Starting in college radio, he
>has worked at numerous commercial and non-commercial stations and
>created programming for all manner of radio outlets, including early
>experiments in "pay radio" and Internet distribution. One of his
>innovative documentary series was the second radio program ever
>distributed on the Net (the first was a Net-only show, "Geek of the
>Week"). He holds a master’s degree from the Annenberg School for
>Communication at USC and was instrumental in creation of The
>California Channel, the cable TV channel featuring live
>gavel-to-gavel coverage of the state legislature. Since establishing
>Pacific Multimedia/RadioCamp in 1990, Gregg has produced national
>documentaries such as "The Privacy Project" (1991), "Hell's Bells: A
>Radio History of the Telephone (1993) and "Computers, Freedom &
>Privacy" (1994-95). For the past seven years, he has hosted and
>produced the national Native music program Earthsongs, heard
>nationally on some 65 stations and on the Web. He is also host and
>producer of a new national eclectic music program, UnderCurrents,
>heard on 19 stations.Gregg is also a member of the volunteer staff at
>KPFA and an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts where
>he teaches radio classes. Tim Pozar Tim Pozar is a communications
>consulting engineer specializing in microwave engineering for
>government and commercial applications. He was an early entrepreneur
>and developer in the Internet startup area, by co-founding a number
>of companies such as TLGnet (San Francisco's first ISP), Brightmail
>(first commercial anti-spam company) and Omniva (digital rights
>management). Previous to this, for 25 years Pozar was a radio
>broadcast engineer for commercial and non-commercial radio stations.
>Pozar is active in community wireless networking. As such he is a
>co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group. Pozar is also leading
>an effort, called Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN), to study
>the issues (such as scaling, sustainability, etc) of deploying
>wireless high speed Internet access for urban and rural settings to
>address digital divide issues. The BARWN network is currently being
>built out through the San Francisco Bay area. The infrastructure is
>based on very low-cost unlicensed equipment. Pozar has also published
>a number of papers covering the regulatory issues in the United States
>and engineering of high speed wireless networks. Doors open at 5:00
>and a $10 donation is requested for wine and cheese. Everyone is
>welcome, and the Hillside Club is wheelchair accessible. Directions:
>By car: From Oakland or the Bay Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit at
>University, make a quick RIGHT under the freeway and onto the
>frontage road, and turn RIGHT at the 4RENT sign onto Cedar St.
>Continue straight two miles past Shattuck and park. From the Richmond
>Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit LEFT at Gilman, turn RIGHT on San Pablo
>for a few blocks, and LEFT on Cedar St. 1.5 miles past Shattuck, and
>park. By foot/bicycle: From downtown Berkeley BART, go north on
>Shattuck, and east on Cedar St. This is an easy and safe 15-minute
>walk.
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