Listening in on current microradio

Several audio sources are available in the past week to hear what's up about the current state of microradio in the U.S. First, Reclaim the Media organized the Northwest Community Radio Summit a few weeks back, with a workshop called "The Case for Free Radio in the 21st Century." Listen to the hour-long discussion here hosted by members of the Free Radio Olympia collective. Then click here to hear John Anderson from DIYmedia.net on mediageek, tracking current FCC enforcement. "The FCC stats look like the commission has been stepping up enforcement on pirate broadcasters, but under the surface it looks like there are even more stations and that enforcement action is not all that it seems," Mediageek reports. There's also "The PiratesWeek Podcast" with reports this week on pirate shortwave stations WHYP, M.A.C. and a UNID, and other illicit broadcasting reports.