Category Archives: Press Room

Recent press releases issued by Media Alliance. Sometimes we’ll post newspaper, radio and broadcast interviews here as well.

Oakland Hearing on August ICE Raid Issue Indefinitely Postponed

 

KTVU.com 

OAKLAND (BCN)– The executive director of an Oakland social justice advocacy group said today that she’s unhappy that a public hearing on the Oakland Police Department’s response to criticism of its involvement in an immigration raid in August has been put off indefinitely.

Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance said today’s decision by the Oakland City Council’s Rules Committee to take the issue off the agenda of the Public Safety Committee’s meeting next Tuesday indicates to her that the council thinks “it’s not important to talk about this. Continue reading Oakland Hearing on August ICE Raid Issue Indefinitely Postponed

Spectrum Speculator LocusPoint Files Injunction To Stop Sale Of KCSM-TV

 

originally printed in the AFT Advocate

(The Media Alliance, at media-alliance.org, is a Bay Area democratic communications advocate. Tracy fought a lonely war to save KCSM-TV between 2011 and 2013.)

On October 24, LocusPoint Networks, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, the largest hedge firm in the world, filed an injunction to block the sale of KCSM-TV to KRCB/North Bay Public Media. The filing in San Mateo Superior Court can be read here. No date has been set yet for the injunction request to be heard. Continue reading Spectrum Speculator LocusPoint Files Injunction To Stop Sale Of KCSM-TV

FCC Defends UHF Discount Decision in Court

FCC Defends UHF Discount Decision in Court

by John Eggerton Broadcasting and Cable

The FCC has told a federal court that it was reasonable to reinstate the UHF discount immediately while it considers adjusting the national audience reach cap, that it has the authority to adjust that cap, and that the discount and the cap have to be considered together because the UHF discount is meaningless except in relation to the cap.

That came in an opening brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the challenge to its UHF decision filed by Free Press, Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ (UCC), Prometheus Radio Project, Media Mobilizing Project, Media Alliance, National Hispanic, Media Coalition, and Common Cause.  Continue reading FCC Defends UHF Discount Decision in Court

IBT: Ajit Pai: FCC Voting To Remove Media Ownership Rules

BY AJ DELLINGER  (originally printed in the International Business Times

The United States Federal Communications Commission will vote to roll back media ownership regulations that prohibit organizations from owning a television station and newspaper in the same market and will make it easier to acquire media outlets.

The announcement of the vote was made by Chairman Ajit Pai while he and the other four commissioners were testifying at an oversight hearing before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Continue reading IBT: Ajit Pai: FCC Voting To Remove Media Ownership Rules

OTI Publishes Model State Legislation to Help States Protect Broadband Privacy

Today, New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), with the support of 12 consumer advocacy and privacy organizations listed below, published model legislation to aid state legislatures in improving privacy protections for broadband customers. Continue reading OTI Publishes Model State Legislation to Help States Protect Broadband Privacy

Radio Group Alleges FCC Main Studio Vote Threatens Public Safety

 

Common Frequency, which performs engineering and regulatory assistance for educational radio stations across the Western US, says the pending decision to eliminate the main studio rule is an “egregious” oversight that disregards that only 16% of Puerto Rico’s 3.34 million residents have regained electricity, more than three weeks after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island.

Continue reading Radio Group Alleges FCC Main Studio Vote Threatens Public Safety

Who Will Pay For KCSM In The End?

originally printed in the AFT Advocate

By Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media Alliance

(The Media Alliance, at media-alliance.org, is a Bay Area democratic communications advocate. Tracy fought a lonely war to save KCSM-TV between 2011 and 2013.)

When we last left off the story of KCSM-TV (see article in May 2017 Advocate), the 53-year-old public television station’s fate had become the subject of dueling lawsuits between the San Mateo Community College District, its owner and holder of the broadcasting license, and Locuspoint Networks LLC, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, the largest hedge firm in the world.

Board made deal with investment firm to sell KCSM’s spectrum to wireless companies Continue reading Who Will Pay For KCSM In The End?

Sanctuary Journalism: ICE’s Data Broker Thomson Reuters

 

Originally published at Huffington Post

by Tracy Rosenberg

U.S. media outlets have done a fairly good job outlining the injustices and cruelties of the broken immigration system and the rogue federal agency that enforces it: ICE. Abuses ranging from the blatantly illegal to the simply inhumane have been highlighted including the detention and attempted deportation of US citizens, removing brain tumor patients from the hospitalpaying Motel 6 hotel desk clerks to turn in hotel guestsarresting parents while their infant children are undergoing emergency surgerychasing domestic violence victims into court houses and trying to destroy records of in-custody deaths and rapes at detention centers.

Continue reading Sanctuary Journalism: ICE’s Data Broker Thomson Reuters