Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Moving towards a terrestrial radio station

Hi, Here are some useful links on the media landscape and low power radio. http://www.mediaaccess.org/issues/lpfm/the-present-landscape/ http://www.prometheusradio.org/transmission http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/beyond-prisons/community-radio-powers-up The Local Community Radio Act did pass. See what protesters were doing to create media attention for the act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPh68vh_Hc8 Here is another video about Prometheus who fought for the Local Community Radio Act's passage. http://youtu.be/rfnPRJ3GiZI This station might be a good model for Creuk Radio. http://97x.fm/ Quote from www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=35233 The number of micro-broadcasting stations could soon increase. Last January, President Barack Obama signed into law the Local Community Radio Act, a potentially far-reaching initiative that in the upcoming months will open up the license process for several hundred or more micro-broadcasting community stations around the country, especially in urban and suburban areas. No one is quite sure when the FCC will begin accepting applications, but it must do so within two years from the passage of the law. Interested parties should prepare now, says John Anderson, who has spent the last decade studying radio and the FCC as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "It's the last massive expansion we'll see in community radio," he says.