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New Native American Radio Station coming soon to South Louisiana

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Found out that the United Houma Indians were granted a CP by the FCC For a 11kw C3 class radio station at 89.3 Mhz to serve the Indian community along the Bayous in Louisiana.

Apparently they were trying for a station in Golden Meadow and one in Terrebonne parish, But have so far gotten the Lafourche Parish operation Oked by the FCC.

The station according to records will be broadcast from a appox. 150 foot tower in Leeville which so far is predicted to have a somewhat weak for a city grade signal into the City of License

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=173330
http://www.unitedhoumanation.org/node/880

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Personally I agree with the aim of the station, but I will have a question however on how this station will be able to serve come hurricane season as it's outside the Leon Theriot Flood Gates and subject to disruption anytime a storm is in the Gulf... One of the few times you actually need the station desperately (the Native American population served by the station speaks English which is a plus compared to many who have to provide Native toungue programming out there cause the older generation never learned another language).
 
Cool, native american radio. I’ve got a new native american rug (I got it from Bubba in the laundry), and, if someone could bring me a cake with a file in it, I will help get this station off the ground.
 
Apparently the station is having issues coming to be as it has been filed and granted by the FCC as a 11kw station will now apparently come on the air as a 1kw station on 88.9 Mhz from the outskirts of Golden Meadow itself at 75 feet (This was changed from 11kw on 89.3 at 160 feet in Leeville)

The tower will apparently be on a tower near the Houmas nation main office in Golden Meadow
 
The station went on the air three weeks ago as KUHN 88.9 FM, Voice of the United Houma Nation, Cheramie said. The signal, broadcast from the United Houma Nation tribal office in Golden Meadow, can only reach about 6 or 7 miles now, and residents of south Lafourche from Larose to Fourchon can pick it up, as well as residents of Pointe-aux-Chenes and Lafitte.

But tribal members anywhere in the world can also listen to the radio station online at the United Houma Nation’s website, unitedhoumanation.org.
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http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20111125/ARTICLES/111129760?tc=cr

The station is apparently on the air with a local talk show at 2pm CT and is running an eclectic mix of music according to the news article

However I attempted to stream from the nation's website and was unable to stream but link is http://unitedhoumanation.org/node/1201
 
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