Tuesday afternoon FCC Audio Chief Peter Doyle was a panelist at the annual National Religious Broadcasters Conference at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.  The first question concerned LPFM and translators with several related follow-up questions. The FCC plans in the next six to nine months to start processing frozen translator applications (starting in rural areas) and simultaneously open an LPFM Window. Apparent...

Much internet chatter indicates we should expect to hear from the FCC on two major policy issues that are the result of years of work by Nexus Broadcast and supporters like you. The FCC will be releasing its final rules to preserve channels for community radio in urban areas, as well as new proposed rules that will shape the future of the Low Power FM (LPFM) radio service. Those new LPFM rules should be codified later this year at wh...

We previously provided an overview of the Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (LCRA), and the rule changes that the law requires the FCC to make in response. Changes to the level of protection that LPFM stations must provide to full-service FM stations and FM translators were discussed, along with ambiguous language relating to the establishment of priority of LPFM stations in relation to pending FM translator applications are awaiting reso...

The FCC is busy working on new low-power FM rules in light of December's Community Radio Act of 2010 that allows elimination of third-adjacent channel protections for full-power FMs to fit new LPFMs on the band. Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle said, "We've done extensive market-by-market analysis" about where new low-power stations could be allocated. The protection changes will "provide meaningful opportunities for LPFMs" even in large...

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STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS LAUDING THE SIGNING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO ACT I have been waiting for this day for a long, long time!  Enactment of the Local Community Radio Act gives local radio stations, grassroots media, and consumers nationwide genuine cause to celebrate.  Thanks to this legislation, more than 160 million people underserved by local power FM will be able to reap the benefits of the...

FCC  promises "swift action to open the dial." On Tuesday, January 04, 2011, the  President signed into law:  H.R. 6533, the  Local Community Radio Act of 2010, which modifies current restrictions on low-power FM radio stations.  This will make room on the radio spectrum for thousands of smaller, community-based radio stations. The provisions were in place to prevent interference, and largely isolated low-power...

In the shadow of media coverage surrounding the historic vote to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the United States Senate quietly passed the Low Power Community Radio Act (S. 592).  The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill’s counterpart last year.  A number of citizen organizations, non-profit organizations, churches, and colleges are just a few organizations that may be able to take advantage Lo...

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Here is a summary of some of the changes The Local Community Radio Act, (LPFM Bill) enacts: * For LPFMs that are located at less than the full distance from a full-power station set out by the LPFM rules, even on a third adjacent channel, the LPFM must provide the same protections that translators give to other stations under Section 74.1203, which includes the requirement that a new secondary station (like a translator or LPFM) cease ope...