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A very brief window will be opening up in October for one week for the creation of thousands of low and high power FM stations.
From an <a href="As Concern over Media Consolidation Intensifies, New Measures Could Bring Influx of New Noncommercial Radio to the Airwaves | Democracy Now!">interview</a> with Amy from Democracy Now and Hannah Sassaman of <a href="Prometheus Radio Project">Prometheus Radio Project</a>.
"AMY GOODMAN: Do you have to be a nonprofit?
HANNAH SASSAMAN: You have to be a nonprofit, and up ’til now you had to live in a very rural area, because the National Association of Broadcasters said that low-power FM stations interfered in big cities, because there was too much on the dial, but the FCC got the MITRE Corporation, an independent contracting firm, to conduct a comprehensive $2.2 million listening study with our taxpayer dollars, and it proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that your local nonprofits, the Thomas Merton Peace and Justice Center in Pittsburgh, places like that, should be able to apply for their own stations. This is a really exciting day for community radio.
AMY GOODMAN: And then you have a window opening up in October for full-power FM radio stations.
HANNAH SASSAMAN: It's very exciting. This is the last time in a generation that groups living in primarily suburban and rural areas will get to apply for stations like WBAI, which is the flagship for Democracy Now! -- 50,000 watts, 100,000 watts -- serving huge areas. The FCC is giving away these licenses for free, but only for the week beginning October 12.
The Radio for People Coalition at <a href="RadioForPeople.com - Grassroots Independent Media Groups and Concerned Individuals">radioforpeople.org,</a> which consists of the Pacifica Network, of groups like Free Press, the Future of Music Coalition, many associated churches, schools, civil rights organizations are doing their best to get the word out. If listeners to this program care about building an infrastructure that can talk about local peace issues."
From an <a href="As Concern over Media Consolidation Intensifies, New Measures Could Bring Influx of New Noncommercial Radio to the Airwaves | Democracy Now!">interview</a> with Amy from Democracy Now and Hannah Sassaman of <a href="Prometheus Radio Project">Prometheus Radio Project</a>.
"AMY GOODMAN: Do you have to be a nonprofit?
HANNAH SASSAMAN: You have to be a nonprofit, and up ’til now you had to live in a very rural area, because the National Association of Broadcasters said that low-power FM stations interfered in big cities, because there was too much on the dial, but the FCC got the MITRE Corporation, an independent contracting firm, to conduct a comprehensive $2.2 million listening study with our taxpayer dollars, and it proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that your local nonprofits, the Thomas Merton Peace and Justice Center in Pittsburgh, places like that, should be able to apply for their own stations. This is a really exciting day for community radio.
AMY GOODMAN: And then you have a window opening up in October for full-power FM radio stations.
HANNAH SASSAMAN: It's very exciting. This is the last time in a generation that groups living in primarily suburban and rural areas will get to apply for stations like WBAI, which is the flagship for Democracy Now! -- 50,000 watts, 100,000 watts -- serving huge areas. The FCC is giving away these licenses for free, but only for the week beginning October 12.
The Radio for People Coalition at <a href="RadioForPeople.com - Grassroots Independent Media Groups and Concerned Individuals">radioforpeople.org,</a> which consists of the Pacifica Network, of groups like Free Press, the Future of Music Coalition, many associated churches, schools, civil rights organizations are doing their best to get the word out. If listeners to this program care about building an infrastructure that can talk about local peace issues."
