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FCC Supports Neighborhood Radio

Posted by timothy on from the between-theory-and-practice dept.

RevMike writes "According to this story from the Associated Press, the FCC is recommending to Congress that restrictions on low-power FM stations be relaxed. The FCC found that low-power FM stations can be operated in the gaps of spectrum between major stations without substantially interfering with those major stations. If Congress adopts the FCC's recommendations, it will loosen the stranglehold that companies like ClearChannel have on the airwaves."

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  1. Finally! by NickABusey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can broadcast my remixes of Britney Spears for everyone in my neighborhood to enjoy!

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    - Nick Busey
    www.pedalbmx.com
    www.nickbusey.com
    1. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You can broadcast... But I don't think anyone will enjoy.

      How much babysitting money is being passed around these days such that BS is able to be popular?

  2. Re:not without a fight by rossz · · Score: 4, Funny
    Allowing neighbourhood radio station, will detoriate the quality on frequencies that ClearChannel has control over.


    Naw, ClearChannel did that all on their own.
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    -- Will program for bandwidth
  3. Cool by Bruha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I just need some BlackJack bubblegum and some old records and I can become HarryHardon!

  4. Re:here here by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our was a quasi-hippie/radical/anarchist/liberal/cerebral/in tellectual/rock-n-roll experience

    It was a GNU rock-n-roll station then?

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  5. Re:individuality? screw that! by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just look out for RIAA vans driving round with full spectrum scanners and a few thugs in the back to 'persuade' people that their radio station is breaking copyright.

  6. Re:ClearChannel... Stranglehold? by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a reporter (for an NPR affiliate) who was waiting for the FCC hearings last year on Clear Channel's plans to expand into yet-another-market. The hearings were closed-door, so the reporters were all waiting in the hallway outside. When the Clear Channel rep came through, he introduced himself to the reporters and asked if anyone had questions before he went in.
    The reporter asked if he planned to use all the chairs, or just one.

  7. Re:Pirate Radio? by Eagle5596 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Arrrr. It does at that matey!

    Of course you can always take the route some fellows I know did. They connected their broadcast to the town railroad tracks, and four a fifteen minute period broadcast a "We are invading your world, surrender or die" kind of bit. They managed to get out of their fast enough that they weren't caught, but as far as I know, everyone in a ten mile radius picked it up on every station.

  8. Re:damn hippie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I agree, and i'm sure that if you've ever been to a phish show that you've been around more than a few.

    Phish fans are NOT hippies, they're fucking gangster wannabie hippies.