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Many More FM Stations coming to Indiana

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Flying-Dutchman

THE wait could soon be over for communities starved for locally produced radio. The U.S. Congress will provide a big boost for radio and its listeners by passing the Local Community Radio Act of 2009 This bill will remove some technical restrictions and open thousands of new
LPFM channels in the USA. The Local Community Radio Act has the support of Barack Obama and John McCain.

Brownsburg and many other Hoosier communities will have local FM radio again! I can't wait!
 
Bruce,

It will indeed be interesting to see what happens once this makes it through congress. As you are well aware, there was a small group that applied for a frequency in Danville during the last filing window. Also an infamous church applied for the same frequency in Pittsboro (of all places) to obviously put on one of their hundreds of religious stations. Both apps were dismissed, of course, but my guess at the time was that it would have ended up being a MX deal with a time-sharing situation.
We were not aware that there was an LPFM allocation in Brownsburg, or at least one never showed up during a frequency search /engineering study back in 2000. As far as I know, the original group intends to re-file for Danville if and when it becomes available.
It will be a bumpy road for anyone putting on an LPFM with the initial startup costs along with the daily expenses and finding sponsors to underwrite the programming. I'm not sure how you manage to do it in Columbus, but sounds like you are getting along just fine.
I'm glad that almost 10 years later, these dreams may soon become realities for a lot of folks.
 
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