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Digital Radio Favored Over Community Broadcasters
Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, October 18 @ 20:10:14 EDT Telecommunications
WIRED publishes an important story about how the FCC and Congress regulate in favor of the broadcast industry at the expense of the little guy (Digital Radio: Small Guys' Ruin?). Nearly two years ago, Congress and the FCC nearly squelched low power radio, blocking hundreds of potential community broadcasters from the air waves, particularly those serving urban areas, due to "interference." Now the FCC has approved digital FM radio - which is likely to create more interference than low power fm. Why? Existing oligarchic radio networks favor the additional markets digital opens while they disfavored competition from community broadcasters. Jesse Walker's Perpetual Three-Dot Column had this story a week ago (Doing Anything Their Radio Advised). [via Corante: The Bottom Line]
 
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