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Thursday, August 5, 2004
You knew that, but still 
For more players in the band
| | I've been hearing form the Prometheus Radio people, who have been lobbying hard to get Low Power FM (LPFM) community radio on the air. The FCC made detiled plans for it back in the Clinton Administration, but pressure from Big Broadcasting throttled it back severely. (Prometheus explains the complex history in a timeline.) |
| | The United States Senate Commerce Committee voted to approve a major bill on Thursday, opening the way for Congress to substantially expand the number of community media outlets in the United States. The bill is designed to allow thousands more Low Power FM Community radio stations to reach Americans in cities, and all across the country. An amendment by Senator Burns of Montana to further delay low power radio was defeated, but an amendment imposing special additional interference requirements for New Jersey was passed. |
| | I wish them well. I also think trying to wedge more signals into an industrial age system with a severely limited inventory of channels has a relatively low ROI compared to the same effort put into broadcasting on the Internet — especially if every 'cast is syndicated via RSS and can be stored and forwarded onto, say, an iPod (a device which is today's equivalent of the transistor radio in 1960). |
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