GET READY, HERE IT COMES: KICKIN' ASS AND TAKIN' NAMES RADIO is on the way!!!!!
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/deepmedia/senate_passes_community_radio_1950
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With the clock ticking toward the end of this year's Congress, the
Senate on Saturday passed a new law which will enable community
groups, churches and schools across the country to establish new
non-commercial, low-power FM radio stations in their cities and towns.
The Local Community Radio Act, which will allow the FCC to issue
possibly thousands of new noncommercial LPFM radio licenses, earned
broad, bipartisan support after some ten years of organizing by
grassroots media democracy advocates from coast to coast. Backers of
the bill included a stupefying range of civil rights groups, religious
organizations, musicians, unions and garage-bound radio dreamers
around the country.
Washington State elected officials played a pivotal role in passing
the bill into law; Senator Maria Cantwell championed the bill in the
Senate, and House cosponsors included Washington Rep. Jay Inslee.
"This is a huge win for communities across the northwest and across
the country who have been pining for more and better local radio, more
support for local music and more diversity on the airwaves," said
Jonathan Lawson of Reclaim the Media, a Seattle-based media justice
organization which has worked alongside many other advocacy groups
since 2002 to expand community access to media, including LPFM.
"Senator Cantwell deserves our thanks for seeing this through to the
end."
The FCC initially created the Low power FM service radio in 2002, as a
way to counter the dramatic consolidation of radio ownership which
followed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and the resulting drop in
diverse programming and local voices. However, pressure from
commercial broadcasters quickly led Congress to impose substantial
barriers to LPFM, so that only a relatively small number of stations
were able to launch, and mostly in rural areas.
The new law removes most of those barriers, creating the opportunity
for many more stations to occupy unused space on the FM dial. LPFM
stations are noncommercial, must be operated by a local nonprofit,
religious organization or public institution, and are limited to 100
watts.
Northwest groups who have been able to build and launch LPFM stations
have demonstrated the tremendous utility and power of low-power radio.
In Woodburn, Oregon, KPCN allows immigrant farmworkers to share news,
information and music in Spanish and several other Latin American
languages. Spokane's Thin Air Radio and Idaho's Radio Free Moscow
provide those communities with local public affairs and homegrown
music programs�while providing new broadcasters with a place to learn
the tools of the trade.
The new law is a landmark achievement for public interest media
advocates who have been working on this bill for years. Galvanized by
the trailblazing work of the Prometheus Radio Project and the Media
Access Project, a host of other groups deserve credit for helping wage
the struggle for LPFM: the Future of Music Coalition, Media Alliance,
Reclaim the Media, the Chicago Independent Radio Project, Free Press,
United Church of Christ Office of Communication, Inc, U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, the Media and Democracy Coalition, the Leadership
Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Hispanic Media
Coalition, the Benton Foundation and many others.
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And guess who's going to be first in line for one of these
licenses????
That's right -- Ol' Kickin' has his application just about ready!!!
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names Radio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buster Norris
<PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>That's right -- Ol' Kickin' has his application just about ready!!!
>
>Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names Radio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WASS????????
WUSS????????
WSUK???????
WFAG??????????
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dave Heil
Good luck with that, ole sojer. You must not read what you post. You
missed the part which reads, "must be operated by a local nonprofit,
> religious organization or public institution."