FCC members likely will soon approve two items affecting low-power...
FCC members likely will soon approve two items affecting low-power FM stations, agency officials said. They said a rulemaking notice on implementing the 2010 Local Community Radio Act for LPFM stations to be closer on the dial to full-power outlets…
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and an order to wrap up consideration of applications in 2003 for new FM translators ought to be approved before the March 21 commissioner meeting, where they were tentatively set for a vote (CD March 1 p9). The items from the Media Bureau aren’t likely to be very controversial on the eighth floor, and the final versions of the order on the application window and the LPFM rulemaking notice may not change very much from initial drafts circulated Jan. 27 (http://xrl.us/bmxdnu), commission officials said. A bureau spokeswoman declined to comment. LPFM and FM translator interests have been lobbying the agency on the items, ex parte filings in docket 99-25 show (http://xrl.us/bmxdn2).