The FCC has just announced that it is prepared to implement the Local Community Radio Act — a bill that aims to give local community groups the opportunity to broadcast on low-power FM stations beyond small rural areas. The bill was signed into law in January, 2011 by President Obama after a decade of advocacy from supporters, and allows low-power stations to be created within three radio dial clicks of a major station. The bill was supported by the National Association of Broadcasters, which said that the legislation "will expand the number of LPFM stations in the US while providing full-power radio stations with the protection and clarity we have long sought." It overturned an earlier law that kept low-power radio stations primarily...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3710340/fcc-new-local-community-radio
No comments:
Post a Comment