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Wanted to run this idea by everyone here.
Contemplating putting together a free content distribution network for free to rebroadcast shows. Examples of this might be Carl’s Low Power Hour or Alex Jone’s six day a week show.
Idea is to get a running good master list of shows and networks that allow free reuse/rebroadcast that fit the spirit of Part 15 broadcasters.
The distribution network would be part website (for people to sort through what is available) and the backend storage and ways to pick up the content (RSS, podcast, file downloads, etc.).
For some of you that produce your own content the advantage here might be to be able to mass distribute your files and do so faster than maybe you do today.
Also fussing with an idea to help Part 15 folks with their streaming (Icecast and Shoutcast).
Have a few servers sitting out there in datacenters and tons of excess capacity I’d like to see used (we pay for it).
If folks are interested or think this might be a good idea, feel free to say so. Obviously, this is something that the ALPB members have discussed, so maybe be suitable to work within that framework for this to some degree.
Total posts : 45366Checkout the “More Links Page” on The ALPB website.
On the More Links Page we have several content sources listed.
In addition, the “Content” page is where Member Stations can post content. This can be shows they have produced or other content.
If you haven’t already, consider joining the ALPB. Simply read the ALPB Charter found on the home page. Read, and if you agree with the conditions be at the meeting this Friday at 23:00 GMT (6 PM EST.) That’s all it takes!
The meetings are audio chat using TeamSpeak, a free application for both Windows and MAC. You’ll find a link to the TeamSpeak download page. Contact us for the TeamSpeak server address and password.
Hope to see you there.
Total posts : 45366Hey, censoredship, I notice you mentioned the Alex Jones Show, and maybe you can answer a question.
I have wanted to use the Alex Jones Show but after sending several e-mails to their website requesting permission, they have never replied.
Also, since Alex is on the GCN Network, I have heard from several part 15 people that GCN refuses to allow part 15 stations to air their programs.
I’m hoping you know how to get the Alex Jones Show for part 15 use.
And also, that would have to include permission to stream, since my station is streamed.
Total posts : 45366Well my disclaimer Carl 🙂
I don’t care for extended Alex rants and head blow ups. It gets to me too much if listened to every day. However, his guests often are real gems and serious folks with real experience in topicals. That’s what I think is valuable.
Disclaimer mode off…
I contacted Jones’ folks last year when I couldn’t find the licensing information. His movies are freely available and the new magazine/paper gets pushed out for free also. Figured the show would be the same way.
I sent a clear inquiry to a business related email with inforwars.com. I received a quick vague non answer. Restated the question in the reply and got more of the same non answer.
I believe Jones wants his show out there and supports rebroadcasting (although GCN would like to get paid stations buying to rebroadcast). It’s unclear, but, Jones would likely step in if GCN were heavy handed to a Part 15 broadcaster. If you run a commercial 50k watt station and rebroadcast, well, I am nearly certain they’d ask you to pay or give you a cease and desist.
I’ve rebroadcasted his show over Icecast for a year, just as another stream out there mainly and to test the server. Zero issues.
Total posts : 45366Appreciate the details, censoredship, I agree totally that his interviews and guests are often top rank.
For months a commercial free version of his show was posted everyday at archive.org under a Creative Commons License, but that stopped.
I also agree that Mr. Jones can get tiring on some issues, and a few times I have disagreed with him very strongly on certain positions.
Another program also carried on GCN is Free Talk Live from Keene, New Hampshire, and it is made available free to all stations, indicating that the show producers can allow their shows to be shared without needing the blessing of GCN.
Putting shows on a part 15 station can be done without needing permission, in my view, but those of us who stream are in a more public position and are wise to secure permissions.
With that in mind, I also use Alex Jones as a part 15 transmitter warmup every morning, but when the stream goes on he goes off.
Total posts : 45366Free Talk Live is alright, but the language can be seedy on there and often a bit juvenile and drug laced. Might raise bad eyebrows in local community.
Archive.org has ample issues. Seen multiple programs that they were going to mirror but never did or quickly stopped. Who knows? It take time, resources, technical, etc. to keep things going like that. But Archive seems to be getting fair number of complaints from alt media folks.
Total posts : 45366The drug topic is way overdone on Freetalk Live, especially considering that they are heard on about 100 AM & FM licensed stations.
There are many many issues in the world worth talking about, why so much drugs?
Another overdone topic is the “Free State Project” which means moving to New Hampshire for a life of liberty, if only the local politicians agreed with that. It does not really go with a National audience to spend so much time on the limited subjects.
But, I believe in the concept of Free Talk Live and plan to continue airing the show.
As for Alex Jones, right now he’s all overboard on guns. Not to minimize the seriousness of the subject, but he’s spending hours on that one thing while, again, there are other issues.
If we did a talk show it would be perfect, right?
Total posts : 45366If there is one topic right now that Jones needs to be on, it is the guns. Feinstein’s total gun ban, think Do Not Fly List applied to guns and with less real reasons to be on the list, is umm, overboard and UNAmerican.
I think right now is Jones career is nearing its peak. The guns will be the Alamo for him. If he stays central and we all stick to the Constitution then he’ll have longevity and respect. If the law goes into effect then Jones is doomed and alternative media is doomed, including Part 15 getting lumped into pirate vein of rabel rousers.
Free Talk Live is interesting, but the folks are mainly very youthful and naive. Drugs have their allegiance to the Communist group. However, the Libertarian views people have the right to ingest and do whatever, just don’t ask the rest of us to cleanup the mess. So it’s conflicted, especially in light of the legal implications of drug policies during most of our lives. At worst, it’s confusing to many of us. But still relative and worth listening to a bit.
The Free State Project, well I really like it. Too bad it’s cold and dreary New Hampshire or I might join in 🙂 Would be more suitable and sustainable to pick the Ozarks or the US Southwest…
As for a talk show, well, being tempted to create one. Kind of Jones meets an intellectual mismash. More brain, lots of facts, enough posture to twist things and some other random thrown in.
Total posts : 45366Part 15 members are very obedient to law, as we obey “the law of part 15”, a website named for a law. Some would argue that it’s not a law, it’s a rule.
In that vane a guy with his dog off-leash said defiantly, “The leash-law is only an ordinance, it’s not a law”.
But as obedient types, part 15 broadcasters are not “pirates”, and do not go beyond the “ordinance”.
HOWEVER, that would probably change if THEY took away the part 15 allowance for the freedom to broadcast.
Guns on radio go back to the early days when many gunfights broke out on The Lone Ranger Show. We still have the old sound effects records and could defend ourselves if they came for our transmitters.
What we may need is a self-defense kit consisting of an emergency 5kW transmitter and 30-meter tower.
Never take away a man’s last 100 milliwatts.
Total posts : 45366Back in the late 90’s to about 2002 my station carried Info Wars w/Alex Jones. This was back when i lived elsewhere and my station was known at X-97 FM 97.7 FM. Rather than tie up the one and only computer in the house (on dial up at that) i received verbal permission from the owner of a shortwave station to carry their broadcast’s on my Part 15 FM Station. The first year of re-broadcasting Alex Jones was encouraging part 15 stations as well as pirate stations to carry his show. I stopped listening to his show years ago because of the very same reason mentioned here. The constant ranting was unbearable.
Total posts : 45366Thanks for the voice of experience – been there and done that.
I only found Jones in more recent years. I really enjoy most of his guests and some of the guests other hosts had during the recent Money Bomb were a breath of fresh air.
For all the yelling and screaming, I’d expect him to have organized petitions, protests, etc. in large formal ways by now. That’s where I’d be sinking my cash and efforts. While I continued yelling less into the mic.
But, finding his recent moves into print media notably a going back to true and tested and hard to silence/censor.
It was that move that drove me to think when I first heard about the publication about what was really going on in general in the US. Which drove me back to broadcasting.
I’ve done some limited FM “unlicensed” broadcasting over the years. Never with any regard to compliance or license. I don’t believe in either from a federal government FCC position. But, when I discovered Part 15 world and operating within the tight limited broadcast parameters, well, I thought why not push the envelope and do something instead of continuing to sit on the fence frowning and listening.
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