The Local Community Radio Act doesn’t back any FCC preference for...
The Local Community Radio Act doesn’t back any FCC preference for licensing low-power FM stations within a market based on population density or LPFM viability “at the expense of long-pending applications” for FM translators, the NAB said. It reported (http://xrl.us/bmt6zs)…
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on association executives’ meeting with an aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski about two pending items on docket 99-25. A draft rulemaking asks about licensing new LPFM stations under the 2010 legislation and a draft order limits to one per market how many translator applications from a 2003 filing window an entity can get (CD Feb 9 p6). The commission should grant waivers of how far LPFM stations must be away on the radio dial from a full-service outlet only “in truly exceptional circumstances,” the NAB said.