Subject: U.S. Federal Communications Commission

• Knee 'em, Gamecocks!

  The New York Times reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going mining for new fines by trolling broadcasts of live sporting events and other spectacles where coaches, fans, players and performers may have uttered forbidden expletives picked up by microphones. This, of course, will likely bankrupt the participating schools in last season's classic gridiron battle that pitted Awfuckit State against the University of Calico Cocksuckers.

  July 13, 2006

• Eric J. Lawrence Interview: Director’s Cut

  The Fall: Lawrence's—and John Peel's—favorite band. In this week’s Sprawl of Sound, I feature KCRW DJ/librarian Eric J. Lawrence. As is often the case, there was not enough space in the print version of the paper to run the entire interview. However, I think that this one is interesting enough to publish in full on the generous expanses of the intraweb. So here it is, Q&A-style. What are your criteria for determining what you play on any given show? Do you strive for a balance of old

  April 4, 2008

• So You Want to Be a College Radio DJ...

  Well, then, you should probably attend KUCI's DJ Training Class, which begins July 8 at 7 p.m. in HICF 100-P on the University of California Irvine campus (map here). You don't have to be a student at the school to participate; you just need a powerful urge to become a component of what the Weekly has judged to be the best radio station in Orange County. Here's your big chance to potentially foist your musical taste on the world. From the press release: "The 8-week class will provide the parti

  July 2, 2008

• Know Your Rights!

  June 19, 2003

• Your I.O.U. for a Coupon for a Future TV Converter Box is in the Mail

  Frequent listeners of Le Show on KCRW (or podcast ... or satellite ... or short-wave radio) know that host Harry Shearer has long had a bug up his ass about broadcast television's midnight Feb. 19 switch from analog to digital signals. Shearer's tales of looming digital woe are generally summed up in a segment he calls "Digital Wonderland." Using anecdotal evidence, Mr. Burns makes the bigger picture point that the Federal Communications Commission-shepherded switc

  January 6, 2009

• Indie 103.1 Goes Off The Airwaves, Lives On Online

  Edit: As you can see, the shock of this news has affected more than one of us here on staff...Acclaimed LA/OC radio station Indie 103.1--which attracted nationwide attention due to their deep playlists and unconventional specialty shows in the face of increasingly uniform FM radio formats--is abandoning terrestrial radio today, in favor of broadcasting solely online.A statement on their official site says, "Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game"

  January 15, 2009

• Telcom Critics Could Have Issues With Obama Pick

  A telecommunications executive today resigned from his director's seat at Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies to work at the White House as Barack Obama's director of presidential personnel.Obama can thus expect heavy scrutiny from net-neutrality advocates fearful of Donald H. Gips' closeness to power. Neutrality proponents, who include Google, warn that telecom companies are heavily lobbying U.S. politicians to impose a tiered service model at the expense of other companies and the gener

  January 16, 2009

• Anti-Semitic KPFK "La Causa" Show Suspended, Best Buds La Voz de Aztlan and Others Whine

  Cebada, in happier times, railing against whites instead of Jews**Updated, with new info on the bottom...Oh, happy day! KPFK-FM 90.7 management has suspended the anti-Semitic hatefest called "La Causa" for six weeks for the obvious reasons, a week after the Jewish Journal published a devastating exposé of the program. I didn't find out from a KPFK statement or the JJ, though; rather, the people to break this news was the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing La Voz de Aztlan. And if there was any doubt of

  March 27, 2009

• [Sound Guy] KOCI-FM Brings Low Powered Radio to the People

  February 5, 2009

• [Sprawl of Sound] KCRW's Eric J. Lawrence Airs the Gems Most Radio Ignores

  April 3, 2008

• America, Fuck Yeah!

  April 13, 2006

• All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry

  September 15, 2005

• Why Does Daystar Hate Jesus?

  The religious broadcaster fighting for KOCE is already under federal investigation for abuse of the airwaves

  July 14, 2005

• 'Your Journalism Blows, Severely Blows.'

  June 16, 2005

• Needs More Stabbing

  April 7, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 17, 2005

• God's Angriest Man

  From the OC Weekly Archives - Jan. 3, 1997

  February 24, 2005

• The Nip Slip

  February 3, 2005

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• The Great Rock & Roll Radio Swindle

  August 19, 2004

• Corrupted Youth

  June 17, 2004

• Armageddon is for Losers

  April 8, 2004

• Etheridgicity!

  April 1, 2004

• Sweet and Loh Down

  March 11, 2004

• Burning Bush

  March 4, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• Jesus, Meet Michael Powell

  February 26, 2004

• High Frequency

  January 22, 2004

• Letters

  January 1, 2004

• 2003 Soundtrack

  January 1, 2004

• God Rules!

  October 16, 2003

• Letters

  July 10, 2003

• Letters

  July 3, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 19, 2003

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• Un-KUOL

  December 19, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Down Satans Fiery Nostril!

  December 6, 2001

• Gaddi Damn it

  November 22, 2001

• Living la Vida Coca

  May 31, 2001

• Joan of Park

  February 1, 2001

• We Dont Need the White House

  November 30, 2000

• Captain Fantastic

  October 19, 2000

• The Jesus Virus

  March 11, 1999

• Shut Up, Again

  March 5, 1998

• Cell Phone Towers Make Waves, Angry OC Residents Cry Cancer

  May 7, 2009

• Is That a Cell Tower Near Your Playground or Are You Happy to See Me?

  What are you doing here?UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM THE CITY...Weekly editor Ted Kissell encountered more than the usual wet heads, skinned knees and freckled faces scooting into his neighborhood Harbour View Elementary School in Huntington Beach this morning. He also ran into parents pissed off not about grades, ineffective teachers or stale bake sale items (this time), but a cell-phone tower.Indeed, folks are so hung up over T-Mobile USA's faux-tree tower--which is not the one shown here but is

  April 23, 2009

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009

• No More Procrastinating On That Boob Tube Upgrade, K?

  When someone from the Federal Communications Commission called the newsroom this morning, I was hoping it was because one of us Weekly-ings were being fined for indecency or something cool like that. Nope. The gub'ment was just checking in to make sure our readers knew about the final, nationwide switch to digital TV happening on Friday,  June 12.Well, readers, did you know about it?If you've still got a crusty old television, it won't really work after the 12th, as all "full-powered televi

  June 5, 2009

• As FCC Weighs Net Neutrality, McCain Tosses in Monkey Wrench

  ​As the Federal Communications Commission meets today to develop some "rules of the road" for the Internet, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Sarah Palin) has thrown up a roadblock.The bitter, defeated presidential nominee today introduced legislation that would block the FCC from creating new "net neutrality" rules.

  October 22, 2009