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U.S. Federal Communications Commission

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2006

    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, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    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 eno ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 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 h ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    The Year in Rebuke

    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 h ... More >>

  • Music

    June 19, 2003

    Know Your Rights!

    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 h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    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 summe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 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 abando ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 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 exp ... More >>

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

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

    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 exp ... More >>

  • Film

    April 13, 2006

    America, Fuck Yeah!

    Manners, shock value, traditional values and freedom of speech all collide in Fuck: A Fuckumentary

  • Culture

    September 15, 2005
  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Bo$$ Dogg

    Is Snoop selling out or just selling?

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Why Does Daystar Hate Jesus?

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

  • Columns

    June 16, 2005

    'Your Journalism Blows, Severely Blows.'

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

  • Culture

    April 7, 2005

    Needs More Stabbing

    Irvine Valley Colleges PG-13 should have aimed for the R

  • Columns

    March 17, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Irvine Valley Colleges PG-13 should have aimed for the R

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    God's Angriest Man

    From the OC Weekly Archives - Jan. 3, 1997

  • Features

    February 3, 2005

    The Nip Slip

    From the OC Weekly Archives - Jan. 3, 1997

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    Burning Bush: The Issue

    A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

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

  • Features

    August 19, 2004

    The Great Rock & Roll Radio Swindle

    Is ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones helping Indie 103.1 become cool or corporateand does it matter?

  • Culture

    June 17, 2004

    Corrupted Youth

    Is Dora the Explorer turning baby minds to crap?

  • Film

    April 15, 2004

    Emma Caulfields Demons

    Former Buffy stars new film is a long way from Sunnydale

  • Unknown

    April 8, 2004

    Armageddon is for Losers

    Lets hang around and raise tomatoes instead

  • Columns

    April 1, 2004

    Etheridgicity!

    Bonus: All the dives we love to love!

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Sweet and Loh Down

    Bonus: All the dives we love to love!

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    High Frequency

    A local minister has his sights on Orange County community radio

  • Columns

    January 1, 2004

    Letters

    The Year in Your Hateful Letters

  • Features

    January 1, 2004

    2003 Soundtrack

    The Year in Music

  • Columns

    July 10, 2003

    Letters

    The Year in Music

  • Columns

    July 3, 2003

    Letters

    The Year in Music

  • Columns

    June 19, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Year in Music

  • News

    January 2, 2003
  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Un-KUOL

    90.9 was a radio station too good to be true

  • Features

    January 3, 2002

    Diary of a mad county

    Orange County, California: 2001

  • Columns

    December 6, 2001

    Down Satans Fiery Nostril!

    Always bizarre, TBNs Crouches are on a crazy roll

  • Columns

    November 22, 2001

    Gaddi Damn it

    Always bizarre, TBNs Crouches are on a crazy roll

  • Columns

    February 1, 2001

    Joan of Park

    Always bizarre, TBNs Crouches are on a crazy roll

  • Columns

    November 30, 2000

    We Dont Need the White House

    Surviving the Bush years, part I

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Captain Fantastic

    Lou Sheldon mistakes Internet for reality, panics, declares world ending!

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    The Envelope Busts

    Cable TVs Huntington Street TV pushes a little too far, gets canned

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    The Jesus Virus

    And other perils of modern life

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    Shut Up, Again

    Senate takes another whack at free speech online

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    Cell Phone Towers Make Waves, Angry OC Residents Cry Cancer

    Senate takes another whack at free speech online

  • Blogs

    April 23, 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 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 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 Fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 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 sw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 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 neutral ... More >>

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