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NPR and NAB fight low power FM radio 19 February 2000 Hot on the heels of last month’s ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission to license two new classes of low power FM radio stations—with the potential to open the airways to hundreds of new 10 and 100 Watt alternative radio outlets—the National Association of Broadcasters is fighting back. The industry consortium seeks no less than to overturn the ruling. The NAB has appealed to a US court, and is lobbying for bill H.R. 3439 which would strip the FCC of the power to license low power FM stations. An FCC engineering study recently found that the NAB’s longstanding claim that LPFM causes interference is effectively unfounded. The President/CEO of National Public Radio, Kevin Klose, has come down on the side of the NAB. He said “...the LPFM proposal, as currently constructed, could have the greatest harm on public radio audiences in rural and traditionally undeserved areas, the exact audience who may be in the greatest need for access to public radio programming.” | Live Daily story | | Low Power Radio Coalition | | top of page | |
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