Connecting a couple unrelated dots….<\/p>\n
LPFM is going to blast onto your radar screen next year big time.\u00a0 Low Power FM stations are 100 watts or less and with a range of 5 miles or less – for use by government agencies and non-profit organizations (like ACORN and SEIU and La Raza).<\/p>\n
Shortly the FCC is going to lift the floodgates on the next step up – the FM Translators, which have\u00a0 backlog of over 6,000 applications.\u00a0 The war between LPFMs and FM translators is going to be ugly to fill the gaps out there.<\/p>\n
Now the other dot – a week or so ago I wrote about the bizarre golf course being built in the cesspool called Benton Harbor, Michigan – it even has the “left” upset because of its bizarreness (part of the course is being built on\u00a0city park land)<\/p>\n
So it turns out the City of Benton Harbor owns an LPFM station already.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just discovered their web site<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.wbhclp.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n LPFM stations – while being non-commercial are not limited to only the non-commercial part of the FM band (88-92 MHz), which is part of the reason the NAB is so violently against any expansion of LPFM.<\/p>\n The Benton Harbor city owned LPFM station’s web site is a bit incomplete, but if you’re not familiar with the place will suggest what their communisty is like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Connecting a couple unrelated dots…. LPFM is going to blast onto your radar screen next year big time.\u00a0 Low Power FM stations are 100 watts or less and with a range of 5 miles or less – for use by … Continue reading