Your FM radio is about to massively change – Forward!<\/p>\n
The FCC is meeting November 30th, and President Obama’s Harvard classmate and personal friend Julius Genachowski will decide how to implement the Local Community Radio Act, which will open up the entire FM band to be filled with Low Power FM radio stations run by non profit community organizations (think ACORN and la Raza).<\/p>\n
Low Power FM stations currently can operate up to 100 watts which reaches up to 5 miles. There has been some talk of raising that to 250 watts.<\/p>\n
The LPFM movement has been stalled because the FCC has been holding about 6000 FM translator applications from religious broadcasters that flooded in during the Bush administration. They’re basically both fighting for the same licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your FM radio is about to massively change – Forward! The FCC is meeting November 30th, and President Obama’s Harvard classmate and personal friend Julius Genachowski will decide how to implement the Local Community Radio Act, which will open up … Continue reading