Issues

Creation of A Low Power Radio Service

In response the public’s limited access to local radio stations and First Amendment rights on the public airwaves, the FCC created what is called LPFM radio service.

Channel 6 and NCE's

What does television channel 6 have to do with the non-commercial, educational radio band?  NCE's are located between 88.1 to 91.9 MHz.  Channel 6 is located between 82-88 MHz.  Because in close proximity to each other, NCE radio can impose interference to TV 6 viewers near the NCE radio broadcast location.  The FCC has prescribed rules that NCE applicants need to abide by in where that can propose a new station.  Quite frequently, in television markets that contain a channel 6 station, limitations are placed on starting new NCE stations.  Sometimes vacant radi

FM Translators, The Lowdown

Little known to most people by name, the “translator” is becoming a key fixture on the FM band.  Once used to improve reception in listening areas that had problems tuning-in certain regional radio stations, translators now serve a multitude of uses.  Translators and boosters are essentially automated outposts for rebroadcasting radio stations.  Here is the lowdown:

FCC Localism

In the past couple years the FCC has received written comments and input at local hearings in which the public has expressed that broadcasters are doing a poor job at serving in the public interest.  In other words, due to the last decade of consolidation, stations have tightened playlists, automated operations, abolished news departments, and minimized coverage of local events and elections.  Most of this precipitated from changes in ownership rules in the 90’s, and eradication of FCC station public ascertainment requirements and fairness doctrine in the 80’s.  The abolition

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