Low-power FM backers cheered a coming period for LPFM...
Low-power FM backers cheered a coming period for LPFM applications to be received by the FCC (CD June 18 p6), while a broadcast lawyer who has been “skeptical” the window will begin as a public notice Monday promised Oct. 15…
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said delay is possible. The “wonderful development ... puts the public back in the public airwaves,” said former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, special adviser to Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative. It will be the first time LPFM “is possible in cities like Miami, Houston, and Philadelphia, where these stations can reach hundreds of thousands of local listeners,” said Prometheus Radio Project Policy Director Brandy Doyle in a news release Monday night (http://bit.ly/19OglOG). “While it’s still possible that, as we get closer to October 15, there might be some slippage, the Bureau is obviously confident enough at this point to issue the notice and get the ball rolling,” wrote the broadcast attorney, Harry Cole of Fletcher Heald, on the law firm’s blog (http://bit.ly/11XphMQ). “Once the window has closed, the Bureau’s staff will weed through them, toss the defective ones, and group the rest according to mutual exclusivity."