LPFM NOW!!

From the website freepress.com i found an entire section of the website (including an article) dedicated to LPFM.For those who are unaware of what exactly LPFM is, it is something that every college student should be interested in. It stands for Low Power FM Radio. Low Power FM Radio stations are those run by colleges, churches, local organizations, communities and so forth. You may be familiar with a scratchy sounding college radio station with amateur Disc Jockeys playing underground music, stations such as that are LPFM. These stations give unique perspective and view points that are increasingly valuable in a world so controlled by major media companies.

For a short background, Congress approved LPFM stations in 2000 and the FCC began giving out licenses to non-profit organizations left and right. "Big Media" and their lobbyists stepped in soon after and influenced congress to pass legislation to drastically reduce the abilities of the FCC to give licenses to LPFM groups. The lobbyists from Big Media corporations made (what we now know to be false) claims that an influx of LPFM radio stations would seriously affect more prominent and popular radio stations that are not non-profit. They made claims that the LPFM signals would actually interfere with the signals of other stations.

The FCC found in a study (The Mitre Report) that these LPFM stations would not interfere with signals of other stations and now the process to repeal the restrictive legislation has begun. So far the House of Reps. has passed legislation to allow these LPFM stations to flood the airwaves but the Senate now needs to do its part as well. These stations must be aloud to broadcast simply to prove to the general public that our government is allowing local representation.

There are letters and petitions that anyone can sign. Keep Big Media's Influence controlled and allow diversity and individuality to flow through our airwaves once again!!