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Long time Part 15'er and Internet broadcaster seeking LPFM because..

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radioboy

Just to keep you updated..I am planning to give LPFM a shot. A few businesses/folks are beginning to come forward with some support. Here's a little more background:

The FCC seems to be wanting the nonprofits that receive licenses to have had some sort of local presence. My nonprofit, Delta Star Radio of Florida Inc., was founded and chartered on April 25, 2001 and has remained active ever since. That, along with the service pledges (which I do plan to fulfill) *may* give Delta Star a chance at this thing.

In our market, there is a little rimshot C3 commercial FM that plays classic country. That station is being sold pending FCC approval. I'm told the new owners will change the format..which will leave those listeners without any local alternatives.

Since I've been programming country for almost nine years via the Internet, expanding on what is already been started seems like the right fit. I'm open to filling other format holes/needs as we do not have soft oldies, southern gospel, or standards in the market.

I'm actually looking to serve a more rural portion of Leon County, including the Lafayette and Chaires communities. Chaires has no business district, but has a community center, park, and elementary school (and I spent some of my childhood living there.) Lafayette is not really recognized as a community these days. It has some businesses, churches, and two public schools.

There are still some small farmers in the area, so even some ag news wouldn't be out of the question. I live on a 17-acre horse farm myself.

It seems like the LPFM idea is kind of coming together. I've been out of work and on disability (inoperative congenital cataracts) for several years. So really, I have tons of radio experience, programming skills - even did sales for a while - but right now, no way of using them.

I feel like I could provide a real service, and that's why I want to try.
 
If you can grab it, go for it. I know I would have loved to put a LPFM on for the high school I built the campus-limited station for but there's no frequencies available ... then again, some station will end up shoving in a translator in the mix somehow. Hell, there's three NPR satellators on AM in the area already!
 
Alan,
Looks like a good draft of your narrative that would be attached to your LPFM application. You dont have to convince this crowd, just the boys over in the Beltway! We wish you well when/if the next application window opens. Good luck,
Nostalgia
 
I hope not, either, Bill. The AMs are all satellite-fed formats already.
 
and if you're lucky no local AM's will file for an FM translator for themselves.
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I have not studied this LPFM window. I thought it was open only to non commercial applicants?
 
The FCC is processing the backlog of translator applications from 2003 first. They won't get to the LPFMs until late spring 2013 at the earliest.

By then there may not be any frequencies left to file for a LPFM.
 
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