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USA: LPFM “Local Community Radio Act” Bill Passes In House Subcommittee
The Bill has a ways to go but we might hear some more LPFM stations on your FM dial one day.
Will LPFM (Low Power FM) Be Expanding In The US?
Apparently so if you ask the FCC.
Washington DC — In the first Congressional oversight hearing since the three new FCC Commissioners took office, all five Commissioners endorsed the Local Community Radio Act HR 1147/ S592, unanimously reaffirming the FCC’s continued support for the bill.
read more at the Prometheus Radio Project
Having worked at LPFM, if you could call it that, while in college during the early 80s, I can not see where having LPFMs on the dial is such a bad thing. One of the most interesting and entertaining things to listen to on the radio in my opinion are unpolished amateur announcers doing their own thing over the air as well as serving their local community. I suppose this is especially true if you live in a large metropolitan area as I do. I still find it hilarious and hypocritical to this day that when the LPFM rule change was first proposed that one of the largest vocal oppositions to it was National Public Radio (NPR). Public Radio.. yea right. Let’s be honest here, though there is nothing wrong with it they are just another big business radio broadcaster. NPR stations were also one of the first to tout the modern day wonders of the miracles of IBOC not because it was necessarily better or they could serve the public but because their affiliates could increase their revenue streams. That was a few years ago so it will be interesting how things begin to develop. In the mean time I’m hoping that LPFM doesn’t get dragged into the nasty Fairness Doctrine debate which I’m afraid in the end it will.