A group of aspiring low-power FM broadcasters urged...
A group of aspiring low-power FM broadcasters urged the FCC to adopt a proposal from Public Media of New England, in support of the group’s petition for reconsideration. The group, Let the Cities In (LTCI), filed the petition in December…
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urging the FCC to limit LPFM licenses in “urban core” areas within 18 miles of the center of the top-20 Arbitron markets to stations below 50 watts (http://bit.ly/YUlBFY). Public Media proposed either lowering the low end of wattage for new urban LPFMs or raising the low end for translators to 50 watts (http://bit.ly/XHxQq7). LTCI supports “greatly increasing the number of urban LPFM stations by allowing the licensing of LPFM stations below 50 watts,” it said in a reply in docket 99-25 (http://bit.ly/YUlKcC). It’s time to decide that vital portions of the radio spectrum “will be either equally accessible, or equally inaccessible, to both new LPFMs and new translators,” it said.