"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Reducing technical standards in an attempt to shoehorn more stations into
existing space just isn't going to work... you cannot fight the physics.
If you want to have more small stations, you're going to have to start
shutting down some of the big ones. And that's something the FCC has been
much too reluctant to do in my opinion. Does your city really need a
seventh oldies station?
--scott

Well, we all realize that those "laws of physics" don't apply to translators
from Idaho or Mississippi or wherever,, but they do apply to LPFM, right?

No, we don't need a seventh oldies station. Or more syndicated get-a-life
sports stations. Or six stations carrying the likes of Savage or Limbaugh
or Schlesinger..

But there are some places in this country that need community service, and
aren't getting it.

Yes, they can buy an existing station -- if there's a willing seller and a
buyer in a position to pick up the debt service on it.

Again, if LPFM did come forth as a major presence, it might increase the
quality and service of what we hear on the radio. You know, the old
adage, competition, better mousetrap, etc.???

But of course, the radio pundits in here will say that it's not needed.

Just as, somehow, 100 watt religious beg-a-thon translators DON'T violate
the rules of physics, but 100 watt LPFM stations with local service DO.