LPFM and the New Congress
 

Scott Dorsey wrote:
michaelmuller wrote:

Just because there's a station at the third adjacent doesn't mean the
station will be overpowered or lost in the "muck". And who are you to
care? If it doesn't work out, then they'll eventually shut down due to
lack of audience.

See, the whole purpose of the FCC is to allocate channels, so we don't have
the sort of zoo you propose. Someone HAS to care. Good examples of what
happens when nobody does are the CB band and the Italian broadcast bands
in the seventies.

CB worked out exactly as it should have. Open to the people to do what
they want. As a kid in NYC in the 80's I had a "base station" and
talked with my neighbors all night, every night. No zoo. Sure, there
were some crazies out there, but people will be people and the Internet
is full of them even today. This is not what I'm suggesting at all for
LPFM, nor is the FCC.

Who am I to care? I'm a member of the general population, a taxpaying citizen,
and that is precisely who the FCC was originally established to serve.

Right... and if the FCC got their way they'd let us have the station
license. It's Congress that's standing in the way, not the FCC.