Here’s a link featuring an interview with Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio. As you may recall from the LFPM presentations, Prometheus helps local communities build LPFM stations. In this interview, Ms. Sassaman discusses recent developments in LPFM including new legislative initiatives to promote the growth of this sector.
This is a video of a barnraising that the prometheus project did. It is very interesting because it not only shows the logistics side of it but it shows how important it is to the community and the impact of the actual barnraising on everyone that is involved.
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Media access project is a strong advocate of LPFM, and do a great job of helping people understand what LPFM is and does. It helps educate people on everything from the ground work of building stations to how translators and satalators work and don’t work in the LPFM world.
During our presentation I talked a lot about this specific radio station in Dallas, Oregon. This one of the prominent LPFM stations that runs 24/7. Click here to learn more about this station and other LPFM things.
The impulse to ‘reclaim the airwaves’ is not a uniquely American phenomenon. For a quick overview of community-based radio movement in UK, check out this news item in The Guardian about an illegal broadcaster, with a community spirit, in London. [Registration Required]
The suit charges that the Clear Channel penalizes performing artists who hire NPP by keeping those artists off Clear Channel-owned radio stations, which is terrible because clear channel owns 1200 stations. Radio airplay is one of the most important ways that artists build careers, and radio promotional support is a key part of filling concert venues. They charged them with predatory and anticompetitive business practices. Click here to see the article
This article disscuses the steps that a small community radio provider had to take in order to prepare a local radio station. During the creation of the low power station, they realized that timing on their FCC permit was running up and that the cost to run were going to be high. Through donations, they were able to get the station running, but they then had to create content and get the community involved to maintain interest. They have been successful thus far and hope to have their broadcast capabilites grow. One of the founders stated that “Without independent media,” he asserted, “we’re going to lose our democracy.” Click here to see the story.
The Prometheus Radio project, wrote an article that argued the importance of Low Power FM by showing how affective LPFM was in aiding the community in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. Prometheus goes on to not only show the impact LPFM had on this disaster, but also how improving LPFM would better prepare the world when natural catastrophes happen. It is necessary in cases like Hurricane Katrina, to have a reliable and timely way to communicate with the public, however, often in cases like these, the public often does not is informed. LPFM can step in as a local source, when the major corporations lose site of basic information the local public needs to know.
This is a nice article from the Christian Science Monitor written in 2004. This article discusses how long it took for these two partners to finally get their license from the FCC. The article also talks about how this is an example of righting a wrong done by the FCC, and that LPFM stations deserve the airways just as much as big time corporations, in the article it is stated that it is a true David and Goliath story.
In a past article in Broadcasting and Cable, it shows the fight against LPFM stations, and the reality that there is no concrete reason to shut them down. It shows the weak argument that the reason some people are against LPMF, is that it damages the quality of radio signals. However, there is no proof for this.
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