pirates--FCC *does* allow low power FM...

From: stephanie (nnine@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 20:16:11 CET

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    > However a few weeks ago our republican
    > friends attached a complete
    > > override of that radio provision as pork in a huge
    > budget bill that clinton
    > > couldn't veto. the future of the program is
    > basically up to the shrub.

    Well, it wasn't just the republicans. it was also the
    Association of American Broadcasters...i think that's
    what they're called...including National Public Radio,
    who were awfully pro-Gore and anti-Nader this
    election. They fought the low-power station licensing
    effort tooth and nail.

    hold on a minute, from the fcc website: come and get
    your low-power licenses...

    http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/prd/lpfm/
    FCC Authorizes New LPFM Service

          On December 21, 2000, the FCC announced that 255
    noncommercial educational applicants in 20
          states are eligible for new low power FM (LPFM)
    licenses. Applicants could begin receiving
          construction permits for their new LPFM stations
    after 30 days. Additional eligible applicants from
          these twenty states, whose applications conflict
    with other applications filed in the same
          geographic area, will be announced at a later
    date.

          The FCC said that, pursuant to provisions of the
    Commerce, Justice State Appropriations Bill
          passed last week, applicants are only eligible
    for LPFM licenses if the stations proposed in their
          applications fully protect full service FM and
    FM translator stations authorized on third-adjacent
          channels. In addition, pursuant to the bill,
    eligible applicants have not, as certified in their
          applications, engaged in the unlicensed
    operation of any broadcast station.

    Not sure what this means, but interesting...a couple
    years ago, when we ran a little pirate from a west
    philly attic for a while, and a different (white) guy
    was running the FCC(Federal Communications
    Commission), and this loosening of the rules would
    have been unthinkable. Soon after, there was a rash of
    raids, and a lot of stations have never recovered.
    The scary thing was that enforcement was left to local
    authorities, so if your friendly neighborhood Officer
    Billy Joe Jim Bob had it in for you, oy vey.

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