Radioman390 wrote:

The FCC today acted against a 100-watt LPFM (Low Power FM--100 weatts or less)
station in Oklahoma.
They're putting on notice all NCE (Non-commercial Educational) stations that
they're going to start cracking down on blatant commercialism below 91.9 MHz
FM.

Funny you should mention that..

Last night I was trying to tune in a local college 2k watt NCE station.
However a pop music "clone" commerical canadian station on the same freq
was blowing away my reception with their 100k watt tx. Both were just
under 90mhz on the dial. Its a shame the fcc can't reach across the border.

About time. "Public" stations are subsidized by tax payers in the form of
government grants, tax-deductions for contributions, and free spectrum.
Since most play only CDs and rebroadcast NPR news (as good as it is), they
really don't earn their free ride.

A DJ playing a stack of CDs is NOT educational radio.

Public stations pay no taxes, take tax monies to equip themselves, and take
advertising in violation of the law.

And people criticize the FCC for prosecuting Pirates?

Honestly, I'm with you about NPR. However, something is better then
nothing.
What I don't understand is this rant about public stations, the LPFM
stations around here are community based stations. Sure, some of them
share some of the same content as the commerical stations (cds/pop
music). However, Its a lot different when they choose to play them as
part of the programming. The commerical radio stations here are locked
in a format and DJs are given lists of what to play and how many times.
Other thing that comes to mind is the amount of money they are given.
NPR is huge money we all know that. Does it really hurt to throw a few
dollars at a small station that may offer somewhat of a different
choice?

-Bob