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Thank you.
Some of us have been concerned for years that the Federal Govt was building a national propaganda network using our tax dollars (direct and indirect). More recently, "public" stations, have been carrying out-and-out commercial ads (which are FCC-prohibited) in competition with profit-making broadcasters. All of this in the "educational band 88-92 MHz)". How much education have you heard on radio the last 10 years? Five minutes? If "Public Radio" were happening in Russia, we'd laugh at it as a government propaganda machine. Here in the US, NPR/CPB decide to emphasize "talk & news" and 800 stations drop music and follow? It stinks. And the LPFM initiative is being crushed. An interesting aspect of FCC rules supporting the incumbents is that FM "Class D" channels, which cover a small community, give preference to out-of-area existing broadcasters, because they can have multiple translators on multiple channels running 250 watts each, while LPFM applicants are limited to a single 100 watt channel and they are required to originate ONLY local programming, while the translators are prohibited from originating local programs. |