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Congress Considering More Low Power FM Stations

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the low-power-to-the-people dept.

Skapare writes "According to this ReclaimTheMedia article, the Local Community Radio Act of 2007 (PDF) would remove the artificial restrictions imposed on LPFM by a 2000 law passed at the urging of corporate radio giants and NPR, claiming that small community stations would interfere with the signals of larger stations. If passed, this bill will pave the way for educational groups, nonprofits, unions, schools and local governments to launch new local radio stations across the country."

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  1. Great... by tinrobot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my iPod FM trasmitter will suck even more.

    1. Re:Great... by notque · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now my iPod FM trasmitter will suck even more.

      Eh, it's not like it worked well anyway. Might as well listen to small radio stations instead of being isolated within your own personal preferences.

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  2. Radio Libre! by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was involved in the pirate radio scene in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Down in Santa Cruz they had this micro-power radio station set up in the local anarchist house, which was also the main Food not Bombs house. The FCC found out about it and came to try to bust them, but somehow they got word and skedaddled. No lie, they loaded up the station in a Food not Bombs bike cart and pedaled that sucker from hill to hill for a week, always one step ahead of the FCC snoops. Then the anarchist house started to sink into a sinkhole and got condemned, so the anarchists all had bigger things to worry about.

    They had a stand off with the authorities for a month before the cops finally got a court order and raided the house. Funny story, they had this weird guy who lived in the attic and saved all his pee in jars, so they booby trapped the place with jars of pee. Those were not happy cops that day, I'll tell you what. But the spirit of the place was broken, and Santa Cruz lost its pirate radio.

    In San Francisco, the station I knew had an actual studio in the Labor Temple right next to my IWW union office, and no one bothered them much. Heh, if you lived within five blocks of Mission and 16th, you might even have heard them. Woot! 30 whole watts of AWESOME POWER! Ah, good times, good times.

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    1. Re:Radio Libre! by Anonymous+Cowpat · · Score: 4, Funny

      An anarchist house? well, good luck to them. We tried to set up an anarchist house a few years ago; but it never worked - nobody would follow the rules.

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  3. Re:Radio? by notque · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because it is public property, not the property of mega corporations. They should have a right to use the airwaves for their small businesses or nonprofits without being part of the media cartels.

    Then it must be regulated! Can't let the public get out of hand. Better that they spend their money on items to express their personality than to express their discontent in a society that abuses them.

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