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STOP COMCAST DATA CAPS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 1, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Heavy pressure will have to be put on the Biden administration to regulate broadband providers

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Ajit Pai, Apparent Horizon, cable, Column, Comcast, coronavirus, COVID19, crime, criminal, Democracy, extortion, FCC, federal, fee, Jason Pramas, Joe Biden, Massachusetts, policy, Politics, profiteering, Xfinity

EDITORIAL: SAVE COMMUNITY MEDIA

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 12, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Cute kids love community media. Photo courtesy of Somerville Media Center.

 

Tell the FCC That You Support Your Local Cable Access Station by Dec 14

 

At DigBoston, my colleagues and I put a lot of effort into working with local community media stations around Greater Boston. Because they are the heart and soul of grassroots ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ajit Pai, Boston, Brookline, cable, cable access, Cambridge, community media, corporation, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, FCC, franchise fee, Giveaway, greed, Jason Pramas, Malden, Massachusetts, net neutrality, Obama, profit, public opinion, SOMERVILLE, telecom, Trump

BOSTON’S HIDDEN DIAL: AN INSIDER’S TOUR OF THE HUB’S COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS

Written by STEPHEN PROVIZER Posted May 15, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Non-fiction

I’m here to remind that the radio dial in Boston still offers a cornucopia of sounds known and unknown, music that is often deftly curated by musically obsessed volunteer disc jockeys at college stations. With the possible exception of the Bay Area, we have the best and most unique radio dial in the country.

Filed Under: FEATURES, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: Big City, Boston, Cambridge, college radio, dial, FCC, lpfm, Music, radio, Radio Free Allston, SOMERVILLE, terrestrial radio

PROPS FOR THE SHOP THAT DROPPED UBER COP

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 11, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm

In the past two weeks alone, the Dig has been excited to see several stories that we first dug into, in some cases with help from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, that have since been picked up by the larger mainstream media.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: articles, Big City, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, BPD, cops, Dig, DigBoston, FCC, Journalism, media, Police, radio, Uber

THE YEAR WE LOST NET NEUTRALITY

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted December 26, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

If we want a free and open internet, we should build one

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: FCC, internet, Massachusetts, net neutrality

SUBSIDIZING GIANTS

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted July 25, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Charlie Baker’s $4.1 million gift to the cable industry

 

On July 12, the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: broadband, cable, corporation, criticism, data, DSL, FCC, Giveaway, internet, Massachusetts, privacy, rural, State House, taxes, telecom, Verizon

SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN: CONTROLLING THE CONNECTION

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted May 22, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston has chosen a different approach—one of partnering with Verizon, which seeks to use Boston to demonstrate to Wall Street that it is a company looking to the future of digital entertainment and smart cities.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 1792 Postal Act, Ajit Pai, Boston, Braintree, Cambridge, FCC, Federal Trade Commission, Massachusetts, net neutrality, Norwood, President Donald Trump, Reading, Saul Tannenbaum, Susan Crawford, telecommunications

APPARENT HORIZON: CABLE JEOPARDY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 22, 2016 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS

Now that broadband internet is a public utility, both cable companies and telephone companies need to pay for public access television — not try to defund it

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS Tagged With: ACM, Alliance for Community Media, BINJ, cable access, FCC, PEG Access, public access, SCATV, Verizon

LOCAL NET NEUTRALITY ADVOCATES TELL CABLE PROVIDERS TO STAY OUT OF THEIR PACKETS

Written by KATHERINE TAMOLA Posted November 18, 2014 Filed Under: News

LOCAL NET NEUTRALITY ADVOCATES TELL CABLE PROVIDERS TO STAY OUT OF THEIR PACKETS

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Barack Obama, Evan Greer, FCC, internet advocacy, Katherine Tamola, Make Shift, MIT, net neutrality, Pirate Party, Republican idiocy, work space

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