Prometheus is going all out to make sure that the new administration finishes up the unfinished business with LPFM in the early months of the new government. There are a few awesome mechanisms right now to get the word out about our support for low power radio in the new administration and Congress.

Our coalition has met with the transition team for the new FCC and they have encouraged us to submit ideas through these websites and make sure supporters make themselves heard as first priorities are established.

So here is a really good site where you can vote for good ideas like LPFM, and there will be more to come in the coming days!

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/allow_low_power_radio_stations_in_americas_cities

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Now branded as HD Radio, In-Band-On-Channel (IBOC) technology has been proven to produce poor coverage and even interference to existing analog signals. Though the technology was adopted on the basis that a digital signal can provide more coverage with less power, in practice many digital signals are in fact covering less than the old analog signals did. But now that IBOC has been deemed the sole digital radio technology, what’s their solution when it doesn’t work?... Give it more power!

A coalition of the biggest HD radio broadcasters and manufacturers has recently petitioned the FCC to permit an additional 10 fold power increase in digital operation power, citing a study by IBiquity Corporation. However, an NPR led study showed such an increase could cause interference to existing analog stations. Low power community stations could be left especially vulnerable. The irony is that the same broadcasters who fought the creation of analog Low-power FM (LPFM) stations on the bogus basis of cross-channel interference, are now advocating a power increase that would create vastly more interference than LPFMs ever could have.

Tell Obama what qualifications you're looking for in the next FCC chair:

Imagine turning on the radio and hearing news about your neighborhood, or local music, or information about local issues. Now imagine building your own transmitter, broadcasting over the local airwaves information on local politics, interviews with activists and artists, or playing your favorite local music. Sound good? Welcome to the world of low-power radio, a growing national movement of people-powered broadcasting.

The Prometheus Radio Project Recognized For Their National Work To Expand Community Media And Fight Media Consolidation

On September 25th, 2008 organizers from Philadelphia’s Prometheus Radio Project accepted the prestigious Parker Award.  Prometheus was recognized at the 26th Annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture in Washington, DC, sponsored by Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ and the Telecommunications Research and Action Center (TRAC). With this honor, Prometheus was applauded for its ferocious campaigns to help communities across the US seize the power of the airwaves by winning broadcast licenses and building and operating their own participatory Low Power FM radio stations.

It's been eight years since community groups have had a chance to find a place on the air through low power FM, and that's eight years too long. There's legislation to solve this, and give more places on the air for these stations. But time is running out, and we need your help!

Now, as the station faces major fines for broadcasting without a license, they are fighting for low power FM to be expanded to Boston and beyond with the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, House Bill 2802, Senate Bill 1675. You can tell your legislators to cosponsor these vital bills -- to bring community radio to Boston and beyond!

Read June 23rd's Boston Globe editorial on the importance of expanding LPFM, and this article on the great work the station is doing in Boston and beyond.

Click here or or here to tell your legislators -- now is the time to expand LPFM radio to every city and community in the US!