Clik here to view.
Which comes first? LPFM or translators?
Right now there are a pile of applications for translator stations in the queue for at the FCC. Translators are often called booster stations because their only purpose is to rebroadcast the signal of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three takes on how many new LPFMs might be in major markets
Prometheus Radio Project’s LPFM estimates How many new LPFM stations will there be? That is one of the biggest questions on the mind of community radio supporters, especially since the FCC’s March...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Groups request LPFM application extension from FCC due to government shutdown
As they promised, a coalition of low-power community radio support groups submitted a filing with the FCC today, the Commission’s first day back at work after the government shutdown, addressing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM update: making sense of 2,799 applications
LPFM advocates have had about four full days to mine the FCC’s database of applications from the filing window. Broadcast engineering firms Skywaves and REC Networks both put the exact count of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: 19 applications for new community radio in the Second City
We’ve reviewed LPFM applications in Los Angeles and San Francisco, so in this week’s LPFM Watch it’s time to dive into apps from the nation’s Second City, Chicago. I also take a look at the current...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: Reviewing 2013, looking ahead to 2014
Summing up the past year in LPFM is not difficult. We had the second-ever licensing opportunity, wherein 2780 applications for new community radio stations were submitted. While that was fewer than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: Close to 1000 stations granted & more LPFM news
This week we’re up to 983 low-power FM construction permits granted, leaving a little more than 100 singleton, non competitive, applications left to be processed. More Top 20 Urban Stations As I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: A Slow Week in Low-Power FM News
This past week was fairly quiet on the low-power FM front compared to what we’ve seen most of the year so far. Only six more construction permits have been issued since last week, bringing the count...
View ArticleClik here to view.
REC Launches Radio History Project
Today REC Networks announced that it has begun work on the REC Radio History Project. It has started to mine the FCC database for historic AM station information and will be adding that material to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Stations Get a Boost
For the first time, the FCC just granted booster stations to two LPFMs in California. Like the name implies, a booster helps a station to fill in parts of its broadcast area where geographic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Which comes first? LPFM or translators?
Right now there are a pile of applications for translator stations in the queue for at the FCC. Translators are often called booster stations because their only purpose is to rebroadcast the signal of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three takes on how many new LPFMs might be in major markets
Prometheus Radio Project’s LPFM estimates How many new LPFM stations will there be? That is one of the biggest questions on the mind of community radio supporters, especially since the FCC’s March...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Groups request LPFM application extension from FCC due to government shutdown
As they promised, a coalition of low-power community radio support groups submitted a filing with the FCC today, the Commission’s first day back at work after the government shutdown, addressing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM update: making sense of 2,799 applications
LPFM advocates have had about four full days to mine the FCC’s database of applications from the filing window. Broadcast engineering firms Skywaves and REC Networks both put the exact count of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: 19 applications for new community radio in the Second City
We’ve reviewed LPFM applications in Los Angeles and San Francisco, so in this week’s LPFM Watch it’s time to dive into apps from the nation’s Second City, Chicago. I also take a look at the current...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: Reviewing 2013, looking ahead to 2014
Summing up the past year in LPFM is not difficult. We had the second-ever licensing opportunity, wherein 2780 applications for new community radio stations were submitted. While that was fewer than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: Close to 1000 stations granted & more LPFM news
This week we’re up to 983 low-power FM construction permits granted, leaving a little more than 100 singleton, non competitive, applications left to be processed. More Top 20 Urban Stations As I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Watch: A Slow Week in Low-Power FM News
This past week was fairly quiet on the low-power FM front compared to what we’ve seen most of the year so far. Only six more construction permits have been issued since last week, bringing the count...
View ArticleClik here to view.
REC Launches Radio History Project
Today REC Networks announced that it has begun work on the REC Radio History Project. It has started to mine the FCC database for historic AM station information and will be adding that material to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LPFM Stations Get a Boost
For the first time, the FCC just granted booster stations to two LPFMs in California. Like the name implies, a booster helps a station to fill in parts of its broadcast area where geographic...
View Article
