“we don’t need no stinking transmitters” ? or do we, when control of your content is in the hands of a network with less right of reply than a kangaroo court, perhaps a spare TX or two is handy.

Not since the jamming of Sunshine Radio & Radio Nova has a Dublin 4 outfit had so much effect on blocking independent media in this country. But this time the D4 outfit is Google owned YouTube.

more details on the pulling of Balcony TV here & here

watch the video statement here

and for a balcony TV retake of a cool tune, this is “the fields of Dublin 4″ for the crew in Barrow Street.

eonline.com reports

For the second time in four months, Viacom has demanded that the video-sharing site remove all content from its networks, including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, VH1, CMT, Spike TV and BET, an estimated 100,000 clips total, after licensing talks broke down.

see also will youtube give mtv the sack (25/1)

My contribution was made today to the gov forum. it closed 8 minutes later.

Topic:  	digital shortwave DRM from Ireland to europe (Max 50 characters)

Body: 	as a radio producer & podcaster I would like to support the calls for

digital shortwave service from ireland.

I had a special edition of my podcast dedicated to the subject and I offer a

link to this podcast recording as evidence of the interest and passion that there

is about this subject. The DRM ireland piece is at about 7 mins in, and last

30 mins. I hope you get to hear it.

http://briangreene.com/wxtc17.mp3

I also would in general like to ask that policy is made for

citizens and NOT consumers, as the word consumer is neither on

my passport or birth cert.

many thanks.

Name: 	Brian Green << typo in the gov system

Created: 	26/01/2007 11:52:29

slamidol20070113 - The Slam Idol Podcast - January 13th 2007 - Brian Greene Interview and Poems

Posted: 13 Jan 2007 05:50 PM CST

The Slam Idol Podcast (http://slamidolpodcast.com) - January 13th 2007: Show Number 169 - Featuring poems and an interview with Brian Greene (http://briangreene.com http://www.wxtc.net http://angloirish.info). Sign up for the Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge at http://slamidolpodcast.com/forumThis posting includes a media file: Play Now

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I got an Fine Gael xmas card…. its a picture of a polar bear (not seen around these parts since the ice age, like FG) the bear is falling flat on its face. hear John Deasy on the WLR podcast.

[cross posted from angloirish.info blog]

EPISODE 2: Brian reminisces about his early childhood train journeys across the UK on the British Rail system. I was fool enough to think new labour would re-nationalise it. With the above inflation fare increase of yesterday and the fact that the only nationalised rail transport in the UK is Direct Rail Services Limited which ships nuclear waste about, will the permanent way ever be permanent?

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the admission is free, we drink lots of tea and the company, its really nice, you’ll never be redundant the work here its abundant, some people have come back twice!
Irelands podcasting rep body can always do with new members, join for free today at http://groups.google.com/group/podrepbod where we talk shop on rss/digital radio/kit/the law/the music/the market/codex etc. more details (but not many) on the PodRepBod blog

Nearly 80 years ago, from a wooden hut that largely resembled a garden shed, the first ever commentary of a league football match was broadcast. 22/1/1927

20 years prior to that, radio got its first voice. Reginald Fessenden broadcast voice messages and a sound recording of ‘o holy night’ on violin to ships in the Atlantic 24/12/1906.

Now (nearly) everyone has a personal mobile phone, mp3 players, camcorders or phones that do all 3 and more. With the internet we have a channel to broadcast on, with storage for demand radio on demand, with rss and http to podcast. Now everyone can become a Peig Cunningham and their life can be recorded like Truman Burbank.

TV was better when we had 4 channels? so all the extra noise tries harder and harder to make a living off a decreasing audience share. Audience’s are bombarded with choice without the social skills or technology tools to wade thought the rubbish and find the gems.

We need new commentators, network independent, content source independent, like content analysts in differing vertical markets of content/subject/genre. Unlike politicians we elect, we need people we can trust.

While digg & youtube and others allow vote counting and hat tipping we need pillars of choice. We have content over supply with audience under supply to that content, unless there is a data recession we need a choice revolution that will see choice move away from company executives and towards content experts. Now more than ever we need those Gary Bushell types of tv critique. will you pay for it? We need new commentators.
furthermore

From Eleanor McEvoy

recorded thursday 21st December on location in wexford.

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what a wonderful collection; now with podcasting, youtube and broadband internet we should be able to see more of the archive our licence fee has kept preserved.

like this Prince Rainier & Princess Grace of Monaco, Dublin, 1961 filmed in silence 6 months before RTE TV started. Like Aljazeera English today, RTE were busy making tapes well before on air date 31/12/1961 making RTE 45 years old next week.