The Louisville Media Reform Community

Ownership of Louisville media - from the Center for Public Integrity.

Free Press Comprehensive site on media issues

HearUsNow.org Consumers Union site for media reform

Open Airwaves/Well Connected - from the Center for Public Integrity. Tracking the broadcast, cable, and telecommunications industries

Media Conglomerate Map

Project Censored

Center for Digital Democracy

Alliance for Community Media

Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting

The Benton Foundation - The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit to the public is paramount; raising awareness among funders and nonprofits on their stake in critical policy issues; enabling communities and nonprofits to produce diverse and locally responsive media content.

Media Access Project A non-profit public interest telecommunications law firm

Chicago Media Action

Media Monitoring

MediaChannel.org - Media monitoring and criticism, supposedly from an international point of view. Affiliated with OneWorld.net and GlobalVision.org

NewsDissector.org - Media criticism

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - Media monitoring from the left

Accuracy in Media - Media monitoring from the right

Media Research Center - Media monitoring from the right

NiemanWatchdog.org - from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University

Eat the Press - the Huffington Post's page of media news, commentary, and analysis

Net Neutrality

Network Neutraility - Article in WikiPedia

The New Network Neutrality - Research paper on net neutrality

SaveTheInternet.com - FreePress's site advocating net neutrality

HandsOffTheInternet.com - Conservative (ACU)/Telecom (ATT) site opposing net neutraility

NetCompetition.com - Telecom industry site opposing net neutrality (Warning: So biased it's funny).

New Media/Little Media

Lost Remote - A blog on the future of television

VoIP Watch - A blog all about Voice Over IP and Internet Based Telephony

National Journal's Insider Telecom Update

Citizen’s Guide to the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters - A guide from the Benton Foundation

Center for Citizen Media - Dan Gillmor's site for Citizen Journalism -

The Carlyle Group:

The Carlyle Group

Wikipedia article on the Carlyle Group

The Center for Media and Democracy on The Carlyle Group

Fresh Air interview with Dan Briody - Terry Gross interviews Dan Briody, author of The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, May 6, 2003.

Insight Cable:

Insight Communications Company, Inc.

John Hicks's article on Insight Cable in the Courier-Journal, February 20, 2006

BusinessFirst, March 8, 2005: Insight Communications might go private

BusinessFirst, July 29, 2005: Insight Communications to be bought by co-founders

Insight press release: "Insight Communications And Insight Acquisition Corp. Enter Into Definitive Merger Agreement," July 29, 2005

BusinessFirst, October 11, 2005: WYCS-TV executives lobby local government to prevent change

County Attorney opinion on the Insight Communications sale or merger, October 31, 2005

Demand Letter to Insight from Jefferson County Attorney, November 1, 2005

Metro Cable Ordinance

FCC Cable Regulations

A Survivor's Guide to Cable Franchise Transfers

Podcast of Louisville Media Reform's December meeting on this subject, December 14, 2005

Louisville Cable Action Another local site on local media. We're not exactly sure who runs this site, but there's some interesting information here.

Online petition sponsored by Louisville Cable Action We quibbled with the wording and statement of facts, but signed it anyway.

ZoomInfo on "Insight" Caution: This reference mixes data regarding Insight Communications and Insight Enterprises, which we believe are unrelated companies. It contains some information on the principals at Insight Communications, but verify anything you find there.

WYCS-TV, Channel 24

WYCS-TV, Channel 24

African-American Venture Capital Fund Investors in WYCS-TV, Channel 24

The Ulrich Group's page on WYCS-TV, Channel 24 Local content producers who utilize WYCS as a medium

The FCC's page on WYCS

Wikipedia article on WYCS

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