Eddie Fritz, then head of the NAB, used the term spectrum integrity as the reason we couldn't have commercial LPFM. It seems adding those additional frequencies would clutter up the dial. Besides there was no reason for commercial LPFM since the existing commercial broadcasters served the community, helped people and to hear him talked were worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. That was the mentality in 2000, today spectrum integrity is out the window thanks to the additions of non-comm LPFM that all almost all religious based, translators that are also religious based and now the migration of AM programming to FM translators.
Here in my neck of the woods I have a translator rebroadcasting an AM signal two channels away from a full Class C FM. They are close enough that you can see the other tower from their respective site. Plus the translator is pumping 250 watts from about 750 feet level of the tower allowing this little translator to stop on scan for about a 30 miles radius. Then there is the non-comm LPFM spreading the word of the Lord that is two channels away from another Class C.
If you go forty miles east you'll find a smaller city with an FM dial filling up with LPFM's and translators. One translator is rebroadcasting an AM at 100.5 FM but spreads up and down by 1.5 MHz. Another translator is not only spreading the word of the Lord, but much like the translator playing the devil's music it is also spreading up and down the dial.
It is frustrating that those of us that wanted a commercial LPFM a dozen years ago were told "no" based on a reason that is heavily abused today.
Here in my neck of the woods I have a translator rebroadcasting an AM signal two channels away from a full Class C FM. They are close enough that you can see the other tower from their respective site. Plus the translator is pumping 250 watts from about 750 feet level of the tower allowing this little translator to stop on scan for about a 30 miles radius. Then there is the non-comm LPFM spreading the word of the Lord that is two channels away from another Class C.
If you go forty miles east you'll find a smaller city with an FM dial filling up with LPFM's and translators. One translator is rebroadcasting an AM at 100.5 FM but spreads up and down by 1.5 MHz. Another translator is not only spreading the word of the Lord, but much like the translator playing the devil's music it is also spreading up and down the dial.
It is frustrating that those of us that wanted a commercial LPFM a dozen years ago were told "no" based on a reason that is heavily abused today.