You have here before you a small variety of badly taken cell phone photographs, documenting my radio station travels over recent months. I apologize for the red-eyed out-of-focusedness of it all, but I thought I’d post some of them anyway. WFMU: Back in March, Radio Survivor friend Kenya Lewis let me know that WFMU of […]
The Exploratorium, the long-time hands-on science museum in San Francisco, just put together a short documentary about the plethora of community radio stations in the city of San Francisco. It’s a fun look at four different stations and it made me anxious to plot out more radio station field trips. The community radio stations profiled […]
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it was another slow week in LPFM news, with just 6 low-power FM construction permits granted. As Jennifer reported last week, the MX groups of applicants competing for frequencies will start being processed soon, beginning with 260 applicants in states west of the Mississippi River, excluding […]
The Grassroots Radio Conference has been held almost annually since 1996, hosted by community radio stations whose staff and volunteers invite broadcasters from across the continent and around the world for a few days of skill-sharing, discussion and cooperation. After a year off, the GRC is back for 2014 thanks to the great folks at […]
Although it was another slow week for LPFM application grants, we are hearing details about how the FCC may handle the large number of pending applicants facing competition from other groups. These so-called mutually exclusive, or MX, applicants are waiting to hear the status of their applications. According to Michi Eyre of REC Networks, the […]
There’s a new radio studio docked on the shores of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon’s St. John’s neighborhood, but this ain’t no pirate ship. A 1940s steam-powered tugboat is the new home of Steam Radio Syndicate, which made its debut broadcast on community station KBOO last Friday night. As Oregon Live reported, The show […]
There’s an interesting conversation happening at our Radio Survivor discussion forum. Forum member Paul writes: “We have an FCC license for a LPFM for our community. While seeking a permit to construct a tower, the zoning committee expressed a concern that function of the wireless telephones, cell phones, TVs, etc., in our area would be interfered […]
In perhaps the slowest week in LPFM news so far this year, only two additional applications were approved. They went to the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, in Tulsa, and the Fayette Community Service Organization in Fayette, Mississippi. This doesn’t mean that low-power FM isn’t still on the front burner. The FCC’s five commissioners–along with […]
This week the number of newly granted LPFM applications surpassed 1200. The new batch of future radio stations includes several Catholic organizations in Indiana and Nebraska, a school district in Texas, Indiana University, an arts group in Maryland, and community groups in Texas and Detroit. There were also quite a few dismissals this week, including […]
From a trickle to a slow drip. That’s how one might characterize the approval rate of low-power FM applications right now. Since last week’s update there are only four new construction permits granted. This brings the total to 1197 as of May 14. The FCC still has yet to act on most of the frequencies […]
