Courtesy of the FRW:
Special News: For Those in the Philadephia PA area
:: MEETING SPECS ::
Date: *THIS* Sunday, April 20th
Time: 3PM Sharp
Location: University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad Street, Anderson Hall,
4th Floor
Cost: $5 donation suggested
:: GUEST SPEAKER ::
MakePhilly is excited to welcome Pete Tridish, a founder of the
Prometheus Radio Project, to our upcoming MakePhilly meeting. The
Prometheus Radio Project teaches community groups how to build their
own radio stations so that they can independently and locally air
their own broadcasts. To date the Prometheus Radio Project has not
only helped to build over a dozen radio stations across the United
States but they have also been part of building stations in
Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, and Tanzania. Along the way they have fought
to change FCC laws so that more groups can have access to the airwaves.
Pete will share how he demystifies technology for folks lacking any
prior technical training so that they can build fully operational
radio stations over a three day weekend - called "radio barnraisings".
Most participants in these events have never touched a soldering iron
before in their lives. Yet, by the end of the end of the third day,
participants are ready to flip the switch and throw their first
broadcast party!
Prior to co-founding the Prometheus Radio Project, Pete was an
organizer back in 1997 for Radio Mutiny's demonstrations at Benjamin
Franklin's Printing Press -- the station broadcast in open defiance
of the FCCs' unfair rules that prohibit low power community broadcasting.
He actively participated in the rulemaking that led to the adoption
of Low Power FM. He was also instrumental in the Prometheus vs. the FCC
lawsuit, which was successful in holding back a major round of media
ownership consolidation in the United States. Pete holds a BA in
Appropriate Technology from Antioch College and he is an SBE certified
Broadcast Radio Engineer. For more information:
http://prometheusradio.org/
