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An FCC Commissioner Sounds the Alarm. Plus, the Finale of The Divided Dial

2025/5/30
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Natalia Fodich
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Micah Loewinger: 本期节目讨论了FCC对媒体的武器化，以及华尔街试图控制短波电台以进行高速交易的企图。我们采访了FCC的专员Anna Gomez，她对FCC的行动表示担忧，并讨论了短波电台的未来。 Katie Thornton: 我调查了短波电台的现状，发现它既是海盗广播的避风港，也是华尔街试图利用其进行高速交易的场所。这引发了关于公共广播资源的未来以及我们如何保护其免受私有化侵害的问题。 Anna Gomez: 我对FCC的行动表示担忧，这些行动包括调查新闻编辑室的编辑决定，威胁科技公司，以及试图关闭美国之音和马蒂广播电台。我认为这些行动是本届政府控制和审查政策的一部分，违反了第一修正案。 Bennett Cobb: 我对FCC批准的实验许可证进行了调查，这些许可证被华尔街公司用于高速交易。我认为FCC应该降低短波广播的最低功率要求，以鼓励更多的人参与其中。 Natalia Fodich: 电磁频谱是公共资源，应该始终以公共利益为重。将更多公共广播资源私有化，可能会对信息传播产生负面影响。 Micah Loewinger: 本节目探讨了FCC在批准Verizon 200亿美元收购案时，要求Verizon终止其DEI计划的争议性决定。这引发了关于FCC是否应该干预公司内部事务以及DEI计划是否构成歧视的讨论。 Katie Thornton: 我深入研究了短波电台海盗广播的现象，以及他们如何利用未使用的频率进行广播。这些海盗广播通常播放各种音乐和节目，为听众提供多样化的选择。 Anna Gomez: 我强调了FCC对公共广播公司的调查，以及这些调查如何基于对赞助通知的担忧，实际上是由于对内容和新闻编辑决定的政治分歧。 Bennett Cobb: 我解释了华尔街公司如何试图利用短波进行高速交易，以及这如何代表对公共广播资源的潜在威胁。 Natalia Fodich: 我提供了关于电磁频谱作为公共资源的背景信息，以及如何管理它以服务公共利益。

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On Tuesday, NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sued the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment. On this week’s On the Media, the soon-to-be lone Democratic commissioner at the FCC speaks out against what she calls the weaponization of her agency. Plus, the final episode of The Divided Dial introduces the unlikely group trying to take over shortwave radio.

[01:37] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Anna Gomez, soon to be the lone Democratic commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, about her makeshift media tour–where Gomez is speaking out about what she sees as the weaponization of her agency. 

[12:47] Episode 4 of The Divided Dial), Season 2: Wall St. Wants Your Airwaves. In recent years, creative, often music-focused pirate broadcasting has been thriving on shortwave. Reporter Katie Thornton) reveals how these surreptitious broadcasters are up against a surprising enemy: not the FCC, but a deep-pocketed group of finance bros that is trying to wrestle the airwaves away from the public, and use them for a money-making scheme completely antithetical to broadcasting. What do we lose when we give up our public airwaves?

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