I recall something like that from years back but don't recall if it was EMF. But they would not have been the only ones. I knew a guy in a city of about 30,000 who said he spent a huge sum for his FM, abides by FCC rules and spends almost (then) $100,000 a month on payroll and infrastructure to be a top notch radio station and if some little 100 watt LPFM comes on and takes even one of his listeners he will destroy the LPFM and never let the FCC off the hook on approving LPFM. As he put it, he'd see how much of the FCC's budget he could get them to waste on him and his challenges. Funny thing was he was a really nice guy. He was correct in his thinking an LPFM could cover his immediate small city and do just what he does for pennies on the dollar. That little city has has 3 LPFMs now and I doubt he's lost a listener.
Sure the panic over LPFM was really silly but hindsight makes that easy to see. I doubt EMF is opposed to LPFM now. I sort of wonder why they don't offer their programming as a 'programming service' to LPFMs in the same way EWTN, 3ABN, FBN, Radio 74 International and others do. They could do a 50/50 split on local donations.
If I recall, the NAB, NPR and many, many other organizations opposed LPFM. I was given some inside information on why LPFM is what it is. Originally it was to be a commercial 1,000 watt FM service and you could have more than one. Instead LPFM wound up as a 100 watts at 100 feet/30 meters non-commercial FM owned by state and/or federally recognized non-profits and only one to a customer. You might say there was enough of an uproar among full power broadcasters to diminish LPFM from 1,000 watts commercial to 100 watts non-commercial.
Sure the panic over LPFM was really silly but hindsight makes that easy to see. I doubt EMF is opposed to LPFM now. I sort of wonder why they don't offer their programming as a 'programming service' to LPFMs in the same way EWTN, 3ABN, FBN, Radio 74 International and others do. They could do a 50/50 split on local donations.
If I recall, the NAB, NPR and many, many other organizations opposed LPFM. I was given some inside information on why LPFM is what it is. Originally it was to be a commercial 1,000 watt FM service and you could have more than one. Instead LPFM wound up as a 100 watts at 100 feet/30 meters non-commercial FM owned by state and/or federally recognized non-profits and only one to a customer. You might say there was enough of an uproar among full power broadcasters to diminish LPFM from 1,000 watts commercial to 100 watts non-commercial.
