Your listing of the new FM stations that have started up a proves to me how wrong-headed the FCC can be. The FCC, in its desire to license new facilities and avoid confrontation from the NAB and other commercial interests who can pay lobbyists, is cramming the non-commercial band with newbies. This cuts down the growth potential for existing facilities, and can cause interference issues between short spaced stations. Note that many, if not most, of the new stations are religious broadcasters. I question the value of this since the AM band is loaded with various types of religious broadcasters, and we have had, since the early 1960s (I think), a full-market FM station owned by The Moody Bible Institute, one of the leaders in religious broadcasting.
