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

What I don't understand is this rant about public stations, the LPFM
stations around here are community based stations.

NPR and the larger state-wide Public Networks are building empires, with
affiliates to cover every sq. in of America so that NPR can extend its
dominance.
NPR is not evil, but the long range plan of both commercial broadcasters and
NPR-types is to control audiences. If advertising is allowed on public
stations, then their "reach" will be used to deliver audiences to the
advertiser. and if the public stations are dependent on advertising to cover
operating funds, guess who's in the drivers seat?
The NPR/Big Public network people are blocking LPFM and other local stations,
so they can extend their reach.
The whole "localism" debate isn't just about commercial broadcasters like Clear
Channel and Infinity. NPR actually fits between those two in size and
influence.

Radioman390 wrote:

What I don't understand is this rant about public stations, the LPFM
stations around here are community based stations.


NPR and the larger state-wide Public Networks are building empires, with
affiliates to cover every sq. in of America so that NPR can extend its
dominance.
NPR is not evil, but the long range plan of both commercial broadcasters and
NPR-types is to control audiences. If advertising is allowed on public
stations, then their "reach" will be used to deliver audiences to the
advertiser. and if the public stations are dependent on advertising to cover
operating funds, guess who's in the drivers seat?
The NPR/Big Public network people are blocking LPFM and other local stations,
so they can extend their reach.
The whole "localism" debate isn't just about commercial broadcasters like Clear
Channel and Infinity. NPR actually fits between those two in size and
influence.


Where I am, I don't think it would possible w/o putting a filter on my
antenna to find a sqaure inch of land where you can't pickup the NPR.
Here I can pickup two stations, at school I can pick up 3. Honestly, I
think thats the problem. Having one station in every market carrying NPR
doesn't bug me personally.
I also know NPR is trying to block LPFM claiming it causes interference
with their broadcasts. Clearly they aren't winning, the fcc knows better.

-Bob