What Became of Low Power FM? 18
Mark Tobenkin asks: "Early in the new century legislation was passed, allowing for medium-sized FM transmitters in the United States. The objective was to empower local communities in the face of growing media consolidation. However, in early 2001, Congress curtailed this new project. The fresh political climate following the rejection of the FCC's new regulations seems to offer hope. Does the Slashdot Community know of a movement to give LPFM a second shot in Congress?"
What became of it? (Score:2, Funny)
is this the band that iTrip is in? (Score:2, Offtopic)
A recent story [theregister.co.uk] in TheRegister reminds us of how it is illegal to use in the uk. (unless you want to buy a licence for 339 ($548) and pay 500 ($808) a year in royalties to the Performing Rights Society).
The Article doesn't mention the bands covered and in Slashdot style I cba to find out for myself.
I do wonder if these snippets are somehow related.
p.s. I can't seem to ge
Re:is this the band that iTrip is in? (Score:3, Informative)
After very large outcries from the established stations, congress severely cut back the number of licenses granted.
What would you use it for? (Score:2)
2.Get people excited.
3.???
4.Profit.
Oct. 17 day of LPFM action (Score:5, Informative)
Low power FM (Score:4, Informative)
Hopefully, this will pave the way for Congress to lift the artifical restrictions on LPFM that it imposed a few years ago (at the request of NAB lobbying), and open the door to true community-controled radio.
NPR (Score:3, Informative)
Re:NPR (Score:4, Insightful)
The reason is that NPR operates low cost (many low staff rebroadcasting stations) public radio and CC operates low cost commercial radio. Together they make sure that no small stations can take over there market. NPR needs all the donation they can get, and it is the closest thing to community radio available in a lot of markets, if people instead donated to the real thing they would end. The death of NPR for community radio would actually probably be a bad thing, the quality of NPR is very good.
CC on the other hand does not need every listener they can get to profit or stay in business(with the amount of adds and low amount of work they need to do they are making money hand over fist), but they are just greedy SOB's that want every penny they can.
the fact that they have alligned themselves together makes me sad, and even though I listen to NPR instead of sending them money I send a letter every pledge drive that states my beliefs (LPFM is good, and CC sucks) as an explenation of why I send them no money.
As a side note. I was disheartened to learn that my small state (Delaware) has the countries last independant news radio station (WILM). The station is probably listenable by less then 500,000 people and yet continually gets rained on with national awards due to its good news reporting. Is the nation in really such a sad state that there is no good news out there? I mean a smaller station in NY could get far more listeners then ours, and yet they can't keep independant and fail to beat our dinky little area in quality?
Re:NPR (Score:2)
Re:NPR (Score:1)
It could be (and I really hope it is) false.
Re:NPR (Score:2)
Or more generally:
$MONOPOLY_OWNER on the other hand does not need every person, they can get to profit or stay in business (with the amount of sales and low amount of work they need to do they are making money hand over fist), but they are just gree
LPFM and Networking (Score:2)
Sure it is low bandwidth (max 33.6k) but it certainly has it's applications.
Here in Australia we have massive connectivity problems in areas of lower population density. This would allow a small community to interconnect to a central satellite link (for example) in situations where wi-fi is not viable for whatever reason.
Q.
Re:LPFM and Networking (Score:2)
The big problem I could see with this is the crosstalk you would experience. Even wi-fi has problems with large clusters of devices interfering with each other, would not FM in lower bandwidth be even worse, not to mention the encryption issue?
C93 FM... (Score:3, Informative)
Gentlemen, start your engines! (Score:2, Interesting)
IMHO, a really cool thing.
K.
They're still around! (Score:1, Funny)
very last post (Score:1)