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LPFM: The People's Voice |
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by The Microradio Implementation Project
Email: microradioproject (nospam) earthlink.net (unverified!) |
14 Jun 2001
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We are pleased to announce the availability of LPFM: The People's Voice here on our website.
This inspiring 14-minute video documentary tells the dramatic story of the grassroots movement for non-commercial Low-Power FM radio service, which provides oft-times marginalized groups in our society an opportunity to be heard. |
Narrated by Emmy award winning actor Peter Coyote, LPFM: The People's Voice looks at the communities and churches embracing the low-power FM movement, even as many of the heavy hitters of the broadcast industry try to shut it down.
LPFM: The People's Voice features community representatives of Yellow Springs, Ohio, who are planning an LPFM station, plus comments by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. David Bonior (D-Mich.), former FCC chairman William Kennard, and Wade Henderson from the Leadership Council for Civil Rights, among others.
Produced by the United Church of Christ's communication office, LPFM The People's Voice is a story to share. It is an instructive tool that current LPFM applicants can use, as well as groups planning to apply in the last two filing windows in the months two come.
It is your story as well, and affirms the response by your communities, churches and other civil sectors throughout this country who have spent hours and resources planning LPFM stations.
Additional copies of the video can be purchased for $19.95 each, plus $3.50 shipping and handling, by calling United Church of Christ Resources toll free at 800/537.3394. Ask for item number PICLPFM.
Low Power FM: The People's Voice
The entire LPFM video may be viewed online by clicking the link below. The video is presented in RealVideo. |
See also:
http://ssinblx01.ss-i.com/ramgen/avwebnb1006/radio.rm
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LPFM: The People's Voice Available At the IMC |
by Mike Lehman
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
14 Jun 2001
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A copy of LPFM: The People's Voice is available for viewing at the Urbana-Champaign IMC. If you are a member, you can check it out to view at home.
There are several groups who have applied for LPFM licenses in our area. Unfortunately, due to the actions of the National Association of Broadcasters and, more regretably and less understandingly, National Public Radio in trying to maintain a monopolistic control of the public's airwaves, the original LPFM proposal was gutted in a backroom deal after last year's election.
Sen. Durbin has been a strong supporter of LPFM. Sen. Fitzgerald claims to have been looking at both sides of the issue, but every action he's taken has been opposed to LPFM. Remember these folks next election for this.
There is still the possibility that Congress' decision could be reversed if they hear from enough constituents. Legal action to claim the public's right to our own public airwaves is also pending. LPFM is far from dead. The only real alternative is to allow regulated LPFM, because it's just too easy and cheap to put up a pirate station that would be wholly unregulated, unlike legal LPFM's. |
