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This LPFM does not exist
- Thread starter Red Plume
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Not necessarily. As has been stated here; the qualified licensee needs to be an educational institution, similar to the old NCE stations.
"Teaching your favorite rock tunes" doesn't count as a curriculum.
City government if used for relaying related information to the general public about the community? Sure. Same could be said with Native American tribes if used to educate non-natives in the culture of local tribes. A school district that features an on-air curriculum or has students on the air? Yes. The requirements to be eligible are spelled out in the rules for applying. Filing as some sort of bogus educational institution that teaches nothing is the problem.
Many community radio stations are several decades old . Yet on this board we have someone dominating all threads saying it should be illegal. . Quite frankly I'm surprised no one else defends community radio. Maybe it's because someone foaming at the mouth with seething hatred is driving many away from this site.
There's a difference between common public or community radio and LPFM. Sure, some LPFM stations are qualified members of their community, and properly licensed within the bounds of serving their community as an educational entity. There are just as many LPFM's which are abject failures, had submitted bogus applications as sham educational institutions, filed that they built the facility when they never had, operate at coverage higher than authorized, and some which even run full commercials.
Gee! I've owned several commercial radio stations. And, there are plenty shady commercial operators as well. Anyway radio is dying a slow death. Universities and schools are dumping their radio stations. The old hippies of the community radio movement are old now. The only ones I see filing in the next LPFM window are religious broadcasters. And most of the CP's will never be built as was the case with the last two NCE windows.
The writing was on the wall almost 20 years ago. Streaming would take over. The time to sell a commercial station was back then. If you stayed in until 2009, you lost your ass.
The writing was on the wall almost 20 years ago. Streaming would take over. The time to sell a commercial station was back then. If you stayed in until 2009, you lost your ass.
NCE (LPFM and full-service) is not limited to schools. It also includes educational organizations with an educational purpose and upon a showing that the radio station will advance their educational objectives. The FCC specifically permits NCE stations to run entertainment programming. The FCC does have specific requirements for educational statements to get them through the door, but once they are on the air, the first amendment kicks in as the FCC cannot regulate program content.
Community radio is a model of operation. LPFM is a broadcast service. The two are capable of being mutually exclusive.
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Thank you for the clarification. There is ALOT of misinformation being posted in this thread.
LPFM and/or NCE stations are not limited to a "educational institution" as Michi stated. Others are gas lighting by spreading misinformation.
The Beat
Banned
I agree. However, there seems to be an ongoing discussion of what qualifies as an "educational" purpose. If you stick to the Webster definition, "egotistic" playing of your favorite records on an LPFM can be defined as "educating the other stations in the market as to how to do great radio" and the station is fully legal. If they are a nonprofit, all is good. Test it in court or via FCC processes and see what happens.
A city government that owns a LPFM is not qualified as educational,,it is a community LPFM, with a mission statement.
The Beat
Banned
Yes, I know. My comments were regarding the question about what constitutes an "educational" purpose when that applies. I saw a comment that seemed to dissuade traditional broadcasters from entering the LPFM game. However, almost anything can apply when the words state "educational purpose." Traditional broadcasters, not just educational entities, should apply if meet the nonprofit criteria and they plan on "educating;" according to the Webster definition of "educating." That was the point I am making.
To be clear, the FCC cannot hold accountable a licensee due to the "spirit of the rules," they can only hold a licensee accountable when they break the text of the rule.
To be clear, the FCC cannot hold accountable a licensee due to the "spirit of the rules," they can only hold a licensee accountable when they break the text of the rule.
by some standards, our station wouldnt be qualified to hold a non commercial educational license because were nto an educational institution
You are serving the public interest by bringing NPR and radio service to remote parts of Alaska. You can be proud of what you do.
I did speak up during the Golden opportunity, but these SMALL LPFM hire High end Attorneys
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