Tim Pozar
2006-02-19 22:44:20 UTC
I should have sent this out sooner...
BERKELEY CYBERSALON: The Future of Radio
5-7 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 2005
The Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St., Berkeley
Radio is changing in two radically divergent ways: big broadcasters like
Clear Channel that rely on advertising are buying up little stations,
while subscriber-based satellite channels, public radio channels, and
podcasts are proliferating. What’s a listener to do?
Come hear from experts in public radio, commercial radio, and the
mechanics of radio what you can expect from radio in the future and how
you can make intelligent choices about your future and radio as well.
Carol Pierson, President and CEO
***@nfcb.org
Carol Pierson represents community radio at the national and regional
level with Congress, the FCC, funders, and networks, as well as other
national and regional organizations. To further NFCB's role as a
supporting umbrella for its various constituencies, she worked with the
Native American stations following up on the Inter-Tribal Native Radio
Summit and with the Latino controlled stations to organize the Latino
Station Summit. In addition to providing organizational and fiscal
leadership, Carol works to develop resources that will help NFCB members
in revising The Public Radio Legal Handbook; writing Digital Audiocraft;
direct consulting with stations on management, operations, planning and
board development.
Prior to NFCB Carol served as Program Director and Director of Radio
Productions at KQED-FM in San Francisco for ten years. Previously, she
was Assistant Station Manager, Director of Operations and National
Programming Director at WGBH-FM in Boston. Her radio career started at
WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH, where she was Public Affairs Director and
Assistant Manager for three years. In her spare time, Carol sings
soprano with the La Peña Community Chorus in Berkeley.
Gregg McVicar -- Independent Producer -- http://www.radiocamp.com/
Gregg McVicar grew up in Walnut Creek, listening daily to KPFA,
underground KMPX and progressive KSAN. Starting in college radio, he
has worked at numerous commercial and non-commercial stations and
created programming for all manner of radio outlets, including early
experiments in "pay radio" and Internet distribution. One of his
innovative documentary series was the second radio program ever
distributed on the Net (the first was a Net-only show, "Geek of the
Week"). He holds a master’s degree from the Annenberg School for
Communication at USC and was instrumental in creation of The California
Channel, the cable TV channel featuring live gavel-to-gavel coverage of
the state legislature.
Since establishing Pacific Multimedia/RadioCamp in 1990, Gregg has
produced national documentaries such as "The Privacy Project" (1991),
"Hell's Bells: A Radio History of the Telephone (1993) and "Computers,
Freedom & Privacy" (1994-95). For the past seven years, he has hosted
and produced the national Native music program Earthsongs, heard
nationally on some 65 stations and on the Web. He is also host and
producer of a new national eclectic music program, UnderCurrents, heard
on 19 stations.Gregg is also a member of the volunteer staff at KPFA and
an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts where he teaches
radio classes.
Roger Coryell
Strategic Marketing Director and Internet Director, Bonneville
International Corporation San Francisco
Roger Coryell's job is "making sure commercial radio remains relevant to
our listeners and advertisers in the future." As part of that job, he
oversees webcasting, podcasting, wireless initiatives and HD Radio
efforts for KOIT, KDFC, and 95.7 Max FM in San Francisco, and manages
the websites and online listener clubs for the three stations.
Roger has a longer radio resume than he likes to admit to, working since
1973 in almost every job in commercial and public radio (including
Program Director, Account Executive, Morning Personality, News Director,
production Director, Traffic and Continuity Director, Chief Engineer and
Webmaster) for a number of commercial and public stations in the Bay
Area, New England, and the San Joaquin Valley. He was also an early
adopter of webcasting technology, and currently operates non-commercial
streaming channels TwangCity.com and SoulShack.net.
Tim Pozar
Tim Pozar is a communications consulting engineer specializing in
microwave engineering for government and commercial applications. He was
an early entrepreneur and developer in the Internet startup area, by
co-founding a number of companies such as TLGnet (San Francisco's first
ISP), Brightmail (first commercial anti-spam company) and Omniva
(digital rights management). Previous to this, for 25 years Pozar was a
radio broadcast engineer for commercial and non-commercial radio stations.
Pozar is active in community wireless networking. As such he is a
co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group. Pozar is also leading an
effort, called Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN), to study the
issues (such as scaling, sustainability, etc) of deploying wireless high
speed Internet access for urban and rural settings to address digital
divide issues. The BARWN network is currently being built out through
the San Francisco Bay area. The infrastructure is based on very low-cost
unlicensed equipment. Pozar has also published a number of papers
covering the regulatory issues in the United States and engineering of
high speed wireless networks.
Doors open at 5:00 and a $10 donation is requested for wine and cheese.
Everyone is welcome, and the Hillside Club is wheelchair accessible.
Directions:
By car: From Oakland or the Bay Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit at
University, make a quick RIGHT under the freeway and onto the frontage
road, and turn RIGHT at the 4RENT sign onto Cedar St. Continue straight
two miles past Shattuck and park. From the Richmond Bridge, take Hwy 80
and exit LEFT at Gilman, turn RIGHT on San Pablo for a few blocks, and
LEFT on Cedar St. 1.5 miles past Shattuck, and park.
By foot/bicycle: From downtown Berkeley BART, go north on Shattuck, and
east on Cedar St. This is an easy and safe 15-minute walk.
BERKELEY CYBERSALON: The Future of Radio
5-7 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 2005
The Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St., Berkeley
Radio is changing in two radically divergent ways: big broadcasters like
Clear Channel that rely on advertising are buying up little stations,
while subscriber-based satellite channels, public radio channels, and
podcasts are proliferating. What’s a listener to do?
Come hear from experts in public radio, commercial radio, and the
mechanics of radio what you can expect from radio in the future and how
you can make intelligent choices about your future and radio as well.
Carol Pierson, President and CEO
***@nfcb.org
Carol Pierson represents community radio at the national and regional
level with Congress, the FCC, funders, and networks, as well as other
national and regional organizations. To further NFCB's role as a
supporting umbrella for its various constituencies, she worked with the
Native American stations following up on the Inter-Tribal Native Radio
Summit and with the Latino controlled stations to organize the Latino
Station Summit. In addition to providing organizational and fiscal
leadership, Carol works to develop resources that will help NFCB members
in revising The Public Radio Legal Handbook; writing Digital Audiocraft;
direct consulting with stations on management, operations, planning and
board development.
Prior to NFCB Carol served as Program Director and Director of Radio
Productions at KQED-FM in San Francisco for ten years. Previously, she
was Assistant Station Manager, Director of Operations and National
Programming Director at WGBH-FM in Boston. Her radio career started at
WYSO in Yellow Springs, OH, where she was Public Affairs Director and
Assistant Manager for three years. In her spare time, Carol sings
soprano with the La Peña Community Chorus in Berkeley.
Gregg McVicar -- Independent Producer -- http://www.radiocamp.com/
Gregg McVicar grew up in Walnut Creek, listening daily to KPFA,
underground KMPX and progressive KSAN. Starting in college radio, he
has worked at numerous commercial and non-commercial stations and
created programming for all manner of radio outlets, including early
experiments in "pay radio" and Internet distribution. One of his
innovative documentary series was the second radio program ever
distributed on the Net (the first was a Net-only show, "Geek of the
Week"). He holds a master’s degree from the Annenberg School for
Communication at USC and was instrumental in creation of The California
Channel, the cable TV channel featuring live gavel-to-gavel coverage of
the state legislature.
Since establishing Pacific Multimedia/RadioCamp in 1990, Gregg has
produced national documentaries such as "The Privacy Project" (1991),
"Hell's Bells: A Radio History of the Telephone (1993) and "Computers,
Freedom & Privacy" (1994-95). For the past seven years, he has hosted
and produced the national Native music program Earthsongs, heard
nationally on some 65 stations and on the Web. He is also host and
producer of a new national eclectic music program, UnderCurrents, heard
on 19 stations.Gregg is also a member of the volunteer staff at KPFA and
an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts where he teaches
radio classes.
Roger Coryell
Strategic Marketing Director and Internet Director, Bonneville
International Corporation San Francisco
Roger Coryell's job is "making sure commercial radio remains relevant to
our listeners and advertisers in the future." As part of that job, he
oversees webcasting, podcasting, wireless initiatives and HD Radio
efforts for KOIT, KDFC, and 95.7 Max FM in San Francisco, and manages
the websites and online listener clubs for the three stations.
Roger has a longer radio resume than he likes to admit to, working since
1973 in almost every job in commercial and public radio (including
Program Director, Account Executive, Morning Personality, News Director,
production Director, Traffic and Continuity Director, Chief Engineer and
Webmaster) for a number of commercial and public stations in the Bay
Area, New England, and the San Joaquin Valley. He was also an early
adopter of webcasting technology, and currently operates non-commercial
streaming channels TwangCity.com and SoulShack.net.
Tim Pozar
Tim Pozar is a communications consulting engineer specializing in
microwave engineering for government and commercial applications. He was
an early entrepreneur and developer in the Internet startup area, by
co-founding a number of companies such as TLGnet (San Francisco's first
ISP), Brightmail (first commercial anti-spam company) and Omniva
(digital rights management). Previous to this, for 25 years Pozar was a
radio broadcast engineer for commercial and non-commercial radio stations.
Pozar is active in community wireless networking. As such he is a
co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group. Pozar is also leading an
effort, called Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN), to study the
issues (such as scaling, sustainability, etc) of deploying wireless high
speed Internet access for urban and rural settings to address digital
divide issues. The BARWN network is currently being built out through
the San Francisco Bay area. The infrastructure is based on very low-cost
unlicensed equipment. Pozar has also published a number of papers
covering the regulatory issues in the United States and engineering of
high speed wireless networks.
Doors open at 5:00 and a $10 donation is requested for wine and cheese.
Everyone is welcome, and the Hillside Club is wheelchair accessible.
Directions:
By car: From Oakland or the Bay Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit at
University, make a quick RIGHT under the freeway and onto the frontage
road, and turn RIGHT at the 4RENT sign onto Cedar St. Continue straight
two miles past Shattuck and park. From the Richmond Bridge, take Hwy 80
and exit LEFT at Gilman, turn RIGHT on San Pablo for a few blocks, and
LEFT on Cedar St. 1.5 miles past Shattuck, and park.
By foot/bicycle: From downtown Berkeley BART, go north on Shattuck, and
east on Cedar St. This is an easy and safe 15-minute walk.