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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! |
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Boston, Massachusetts has been abuzz with the story of Touch FM, an unlicensed and internet community radio station serving the African-American community of downtown Boston. When the last black-owned radio station in Boston was purchased by a big media company (a process mentioned in this earlier article from the Globe last year) community leaders got together to start Touch FM, to promote a positive, local message of community growth and pride in Boston's black neighborhoods.
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! |
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Prometheus
Radio Project, working closely with Media Access Project, Common
Frequency and students from Penn State, University of Colorado,
University of Pennsylvania, and Temple, have released a set of comments
and report designed to move the debate forward on the future of LPFM.
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Want to bring low power FM and community radio to every city and town? Now is the time to take action by commenting at the FCC! We are hot on the trail of expanding low power community radio around the country, both in Congress and at the FCC. Thanks to the efforts of low power radio supporters like you, the Local Community Radio Act -- which will lift the restrictions on Low Power FM -- has 70 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and last fall unanimously passed the Senate Commerce Committee. And the FCC is currently accepting your comments on the future of Low Power FM! And now the FCC is accepting comments, until April 7th! Click here now to tell the FCC you want a station, and click here now to tell the FCC to keep your existing low power FM from being knocked off the air!
Want to learn more? Visit http://www.prometheusradio.org/take_action to fight for low power FM at the FCC and in Congress now! |
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Low power FM radio supporters, stations, and friends: we are ever so impressed with you! February 25th and 26th marked Low Power FM Leadership Days -- where everyone from Albuquerque met with Christian rural Georgia broadcasters met with tribal low power pioneers met with New England environmental stations met with youth news, activism, and music makers from Detroit, and more! Over fifty tireless activists for community radio in every American city gathered at a Quaker meeting house two blocks from the Capitol for a day of training and friendship and celebration, before they travelled to the FCC and Congress to fight for their voices on the dial! Read below for more, or take action now at http://www.freepress.net/lpfm or at http://www.prometheusradio.org/take_action! |
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On December 11th, the Federal Communications Commission released a new set of rules on low power FM radio. They also asked a number of other important questions on how to change and adapt low power FM now, and in the future! What do these rules mean? How will they affect current LPFM radio stations, and community groups who want to build stations in cities and towns nationwide?
UPDATE: We've completed our preliminary analysis of the long Report and Order from the Commission, and it describes our sense of what the FCC did, what it means for LPFM, and what we might want to do next! Click here to download the report, in .doc format: http://www.prometheusradio.org/media/whos_on_second_LPFM_rulemaking_analysis_PRP_dec_13_2007.doc and here to read the report in .pdf: http://www.prometheusradio.org/media/whos_on_second_LPFM_rulemaking_analysis_PRP_dec_13_2007.pdf. And read below for the text of the Commission's report, and statements from the Commissioners!
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Prometheus Radio Project Congratulates FCC on Improving LPFM Radio Service, and Offering Further Discussion on Important Issues Around Community Radio
Contact: Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project Founder
215-727-9620 x 501, 215-605-9297,
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On November 27th, the Federal Communications Commission passed a set of provisions amending the rules that govern the low power FM radio (LPFM) service -- a noncommercial radio service that hundreds of schools, churches, municipalities, and community groups use to connect with their local communities. Below is the press statement of Pete Tridish, founder of the Prometheus Radio Project, on the FCC's decision.
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Release: Senate Committee Votes to Expand Low Power FM Radio!
October 30th, 2007
Contact: Hannah Sassaman, 215.727.9620 x 501, 267.970.4007,
hannahjs(at)prometheusradio.org
The United States Senate Commerce Committee voted this afternoon to
substantially expand the number of community media outlets in the United
States. In a consensus vote, the Committee moved to report Senate Bill
1675, the Local Community Radio Act of 2007, to the full Senate -- and
opened the door for thousands of new community radio stations to be
built in America's largest cities, and smaller communities across the
nation.
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The FCC has announced plans to vote on whether or not to allow big companies to own even more media in the United States by the end of 2007. Below is the statement of Prometheus Radio Project founder Pete Tridish on the FCC's rush to judgment:
"The Prometheus Radio Project would like to express its concern about recently announced plans for the FCC to vote on changing the protections against consolidation of media ownership. |
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Congratulations to the folks from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's
Center for Self Determination in  Greenville, SC on the launch of the first community-run radio station in Greenville County, WMXP-lpfm on Sunday
June 10, 2007- the Malcolm X Experience. Thanks to all of you who led
workshops, transported others, cooked a meal, washed the dishes, raised
the antenna, and wired the studio- among so many other behind-the-scenes
work to help keep the barnraising moving. If you couldn't make it to the WMXP barnraising, and want to check out
some sights and sounds from the weekend (June 8-10, 2007), check out some
of these links:
We would also like to thank those who participated and facilitated a very
important discussion on race and gender privilege awareness in the media
justice movement. Please read Prometheus Radio's statement on the key
points of that very important discussions by clicking on the read more link below.
Again, thank you truly from all of us for pitching in to help another
community gain a new voice on the airwaves!
Love,
Prometheus Radio Project |
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