Here’s background of the rules in plain English
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2231949
The basic framework of radio station licensing is that licenses are granted to “serve the public interest” in the community where they are located. There is a finite limit on how many radio stations there can be because of the limited spectrum, and the Supreme Court has agreed that this gives the FCC power to make rules about how radio stations operate.
A fundamental rule that this existed from the beginning is that “to serve the local community”, you must BE in the local community and the people in your community must be able to come to you and talk with you about your radio station.
The FCC requires that all radio stations (with the exception of a low-power FM and satellite delivered religious translators) maintain a main studio location within 25 miles of the community the station allegedly serves. This requires that during normal business hours, a manager of the radio station is present at the main studio, and that the main studio has the ability to originate programming. The studio is also required to have a phone number that is a local phone call from the community radio station serves.
A good place for anti-immigrant activists to start might be to complain to the FCC that the Spanish-language stations in their community are in violation of this rule. Stations are also required at the top of every hour to announce the ID of the station in English.
Other than political interference, I don’t understand how an FCC ownership application can show a contact address of a PO Box and be accepted.
The secondary issue, that is not the FCC’s rule to enforce is – is the owner of the radio station filing income tax returns with the IRS? You have to be a US Citizen to own a radio station.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
al-Obama’s minions already have you pegged as a racist. Those FCC ownership rules were setup by a bunch of old, white guys. You know, the ones who have been denying everyone their rights. So, al-Obama is all about righting the wrongs those mean ole white men have done to the rest of the world, that’s why a P.O. Box address in ‘any’ country is sufficient to obtain a license (and any white guys who get a license nowadays are the ‘right’ ones.)
Today’s political climate is more about serving the “poor” and the “downtrodden”. Today’s “immigrants” just want a better life for themselves and their family, even when it means they need to first send their sons and daughters hundred of miles through treacherous territory to get to the “Promised Land flowing with milk and honey”. Once their children are here, the rest of the family will be able to join them.
They aren’t coming here to work and support themselves of course because America has all the wealth, which was plundered from their countries. No, they are simply arriving to place their claim on the stolen wealth and receive what al-Obama and his minions have promised them, and who are more than willing to give it to them.
Disregard any rumors that only the ‘right’ officials are allowed to review the progress being made regarding the education benefits the early arrivals are now receiving, which is a courtesy granted by The One, al-Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm!!!
There is a huge push the last few years to hand out radio licenses to “Native American” tribes. With no profit motive (unless the tribe owns a casino), they pretty much have no useful programming – perhaps Amy Goodman’s “I hate America now and forever” program (“Democracy Now”) and a recording of the last tribal meeting and Native 1 programming intended to discourage Native Americans from leaving the reservation.
http://www.nv1.org/
http://www.nv1.org/stations.html
My observations, not based just on the radio station linked above, but it sure seems the tribes have lost their will to live and flourish as their forefathers once did. I attribute the reason for it to the US government, who 1st beat them into submission, then restricted them to live on reservations, and reducing them to a life of dependence just to survive. So, it may not be all that bad to hand out a few radio licenses.
Nowadays there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants being invited into the country, who we are told by al-Obama are ‘the best and brightest’, but who will of course need
hand-outs to survive. Now it may seem as if I’ve switched topics, but not really. You know that the ‘drug’ of choice sweeping America today is marijuana, and the ‘drug’ tobacco is
really bad, so bad in fact that it is demonized be nearly everyone? See how much sense that makes? What was the ‘drug’ of choice in China back in the days of British rule? Opium dens were established everywhere in order to handle the demand for smoking it.
There was a time when the hundreds of different North and South American nations all had something in common, which was cohiba, punche and other names for tobacco. Ecuador is
believed to be the origin of the plant and its use swept all the way into the Attic regions in the pre-Columbus Period. Used in ceremonies, in prayers and in spiritual gatherings, it was used by virtually all of the hundreds of tribes throughout North and South America. Today’s tobacco products bear little resemblance to what was used by the ancient peoples.
Anyways, we are witnessing the re-making of America. As Francis Bacon and others have written about in the distant past, the New World was to be an “experiment” for Novus Ordo Seclorum, Latin for “New Order of the Ages”.
American Indians get monthly checks from the Bureau of Indian affairs, and a number of assorted benefits like Indian Health Care. Generally speaking, the land held by Indian tribes is “collectively owned” by the tribe and cannot be sold. There is no motivation to do anything. The Indians mostly go to segregated schools funded by the Federal government and run by the tribes – and place their entire worth as human beings on their genetics and the ability to create more “Native American” children to get more government checks. Marrying outside the tribe is highly frowned upon, but that isn’t racism because Indians are the victims. Look at Indian Reservations and you see the face of socialism in the real world.
You nailed it!
The War on Drugs in Central America against drug lords that transit mostly cocaine through Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras is a violent business. When I researched some ex-pat forums those were the three countries people are warned to avoid, with the exception of Rio Dulce in Guatemala, and even there it’s not that safe. Truth is, there are very few calm, secure countries to settle as an ex-pat. Maybe parts of Ecuador come to mind.
The violence going on in those countries is undoubtedly a big reason why folks are fleeing those countries for America. Who can blame them? But, considering once they surrender to the Border Patrols and they are parceled out to far flung locales under more than suspicious circumstances is a big concern for the future of America.
Many other states are going to legalize marijuana, sooner rather than later. Why not just go completely Libertarian and legalize cocaine? Besides, the focus could then sift to meth and heroin being the really bad drugs.
Hey, forgot to make this quip regarding handing out AM radio licenses to NA tribes, which is, “Why not. AM radio is already a dying business, so what’s the harm in letting the NA tribes in on a ‘good’ thing before it goes completely dead? just sayin’
They’re mostly FM licenses in the non-com (88-92Mhz) pact of the FM band. Since the range of FM radio is about 40 miles tops, and Indian Reservations are often in the middle of nowhere, it doesn’t create conflicts with other potential radio stations. It mainly just allows the FCC to report making progress on “diversity”