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FCC Move Could Shut Down High School Radio Station

Posted by timothy on from the arrogance-at-play dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "This probably has been happening all along, maybe just not in my area. A broadcasting company bought an FM radio station in The Dalles, Oregon (a little hick town east of Portland), and wants to move it to a much choicer market in Seattle, Washington. The FCC has given the green light for the move. Problem is, the frequency in Seattle is being used by a station owned by a local high school, Mercer Island High School. The school has appealed, saying the decision ignores the FCC's own rules, and questioned the FCC's assertion that there's space available elsewhere on the Seattle-area radio dial. The school says the proposal is 'little more than an effort to migrate from a rural community to an extremely well-served urban area.' Critics of the proposal contend that the move is an attempt to tap the much larger Seattle radio advertising market."

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  1. a little hick town east of Portland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LMFAO... isn't that the truth!!!

  2. Re:Do I smell evil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh fuck you,

    every big corporation is inherently evil eh?

  3. my opinion is.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck the funky juice místers, the school will eat your shoes for this!! you over-rounded bollard sucker!

    you better hope the zumber-tube sees you before i do, or youll be in for one squanched of a bumpy jimbok ride.

  4. Re:Warning! On-Topic Adult Material by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Oprah ran for President, she would kick W's ass and Kerry the Kommie also. (W is also a commie, just stupider than Kerry, btw.) No one is going to fuck with her.

  5. Re:My Rights Online by Kohath · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess you have to hate corporations a lot to "get it". Hate isn't really my thing.

  6. John Kerry, COMPROMISED BY THE JEWS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let spill

  7. Fuck the people who don't vote! by gelfling · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck em all especially all those liberal commie terrorist faggots in the great northwest sucking down faggoty expruhssesso and whining about their goddamn rights. Pack em all off to Camp X-Ray for a year and then ask them if they'd like to exercise their fucking rights.

    - John Ashcroft

    1. Re:Fuck the people who don't vote! by sik+puppy · · Score: -1, Troll

      Exactly. Michael Powell is proof of why nepotism is so wrong and bad for the country. Between him and Asscroft, do you really want 4 more years of Shrub in the White House?

      Gee, can't tell I'm biased, can you?

      --
      The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
  8. Re:same thing this year in Philly burbs... WHHS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Awwwwwwwww, poor baby.

    Some spoiled rich kids got their toy taken away. It just makes me want to cry.

    Boo Hoo Hoo!