Hello Everyone:
As many of you know, I am currently working on an FCC compliant AM radio station and it is near completion. I am currently streaming on the Internet @ http://dew.servemp3.com . My ultimate goal is to establish a Low Power FM station through the FCC with a non-profit organization. I have copied the text of a letter I submitted below explaining the details of this email. Please consider going to the link at http://action.freepress.net/campaign/lpfm and filling out this simple form to send this letter to Congress if you agree with the contents. Please pass on this on to others if possible. Contents of letter and background information as follows.. Thanks?… Dew & Celina
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I strongly urge you to support the Local Community Radio Act of 2007 (HR 2802/S. 1675) sponsored by Reps. Mike Doyle and Lee Terry and Sens. John McCain and Maria Cantwell. This important new legislation will expand low power FM radio and allow locally produced, community radio to flourish.
Expanding low power FM radio will help restore needed diversity to our airwaves, bringing forth new voices and viewpoints that are often overlooked by large commercial broadcasters.
Please support the Local Community Radio Act of 2007. Thank you.
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Background:
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission established the Low Power FM (LPFM) radio service -- noncommercial, local, low-powered radio that schools, community groups, churches, and any nonprofit could use to broadcast local information to their local community. There are about 800 LPFM stations on air all across the country - but groups in many communities, and most big cities, who applied for these great new stations all lost out. Why?
Because the big broadcasters -- represented by the National Association of Broadcasters -- convinced Congress to limit low power FM to the most rural areas, claiming that little LPFM stations would interfere with big radio stations in big cities -- making the radio dial unlistenable.
In the law that Congress passed (the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act of 2000), they also asked the FCC to study whether or not LPFM stations would really cause interference. The FCC hired a big, independent engineering firm -- the MITRE corporation -- to study this potential interference -- and $2.2 million later, they proved that LPFM was a great idea in big cities as well as small.
As many of you know, I am currently working on an FCC compliant AM radio station and it is near completion. I am currently streaming on the Internet @ http://dew.servemp3.com . My ultimate goal is to establish a Low Power FM station through the FCC with a non-profit organization. I have copied the text of a letter I submitted below explaining the details of this email. Please consider going to the link at http://action.freepress.net/campaign/lpfm and filling out this simple form to send this letter to Congress if you agree with the contents. Please pass on this on to others if possible. Contents of letter and background information as follows.. Thanks?… Dew & Celina
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I strongly urge you to support the Local Community Radio Act of 2007 (HR 2802/S. 1675) sponsored by Reps. Mike Doyle and Lee Terry and Sens. John McCain and Maria Cantwell. This important new legislation will expand low power FM radio and allow locally produced, community radio to flourish.
Expanding low power FM radio will help restore needed diversity to our airwaves, bringing forth new voices and viewpoints that are often overlooked by large commercial broadcasters.
Please support the Local Community Radio Act of 2007. Thank you.
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Background:
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission established the Low Power FM (LPFM) radio service -- noncommercial, local, low-powered radio that schools, community groups, churches, and any nonprofit could use to broadcast local information to their local community. There are about 800 LPFM stations on air all across the country - but groups in many communities, and most big cities, who applied for these great new stations all lost out. Why?
Because the big broadcasters -- represented by the National Association of Broadcasters -- convinced Congress to limit low power FM to the most rural areas, claiming that little LPFM stations would interfere with big radio stations in big cities -- making the radio dial unlistenable.
In the law that Congress passed (the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act of 2000), they also asked the FCC to study whether or not LPFM stations would really cause interference. The FCC hired a big, independent engineering firm -- the MITRE corporation -- to study this potential interference -- and $2.2 million later, they proved that LPFM was a great idea in big cities as well as small.
