Community Broadband Bits
Hosted by Chris and Chris Mitchell and Doug Dawson · Institute for Local Self-Reliance
4.9from 33 ratings
- 732
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
About Community Broadband Bits
Unbuffered explores Internet access, digital equity, and local technology solutions, but with a broader lens on how tech shapes our lives, our communities, and our sense of agency. We make technology and technology makes us.
- Publisher
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Category
- news · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Jun 2012
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 732 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who Controls the Megaphone? - Episode 28 of Unbuffered
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The FCC on Trial: Defense of Free Speech and the Future of Media Regulation - Episode 27 of Unbuffered
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tree Canopies, Broken Data, and DOGE Math - Episode 26 of Unbuffered
Inside a recent episode
Who Controls the Megaphone? - Episode 28 of Unbuffered
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The driving factor is the profit motivation. And then how much they're willing to compromise their journalistic ethics or even their own editorial independence in order to get that next deal through. Yeah, that's the thing. There's two things that results. Can I reframe this just really briefly? It's interesting, right? Because I feel like, Matt, one could have scale in the BBC, right? In theory, the BBC has as much scale as it is possible to have, right? Like every home basically in Britain... Has it more or less less, right? And yet they're not owned by someone that's trying to figure out how to like get a defense contract from the federal, from the state or something like that, right? […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Matt Wood
- Karl Bode
- Gigi Sohn
- Berin Szóka
- Keith Hanson
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts Community Broadband Bits?
Chris and Chris Mitchell and Doug Dawson host the show. Published by Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Community Broadband Bits take guests?
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