Support For You
We offer opportunities for applicants and fellow-travelers to meet and plan. We provide information and technical support, hooking folks up with the experts in this process. We are identifying in-kind and financial support, talking with radio stations and other groups who may have broadcast equipment and other supplies to donate as well as foundations and other philanthropic groups. We'll give you as much moral support as you need!
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Be the Media!
On this site, you'll find resources for the next wave of community radio stations and hopeful applicants: documents about station building, community radio news, and ways to connect to others in the Radio for People coalition.
Background
After years of anticipation, The FCC lifted a freeze on applications for full-powered, noncommercial (NCE) radio licenses between October 12 and October 22, 2007. During those ten days, more than 350 local community groups across the country applied for frequencies on behalf of community radio. NCE frequencies, which reside on the FM dial between 88.1 MHz and 91.9 MHz, are granted to American citizens by the federal government as a public trust at no cost.
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By Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report
When, for the first time in decades, the FCC opened up a licensing window for new full-power FM community radio stations, mostly in rural areas around the country, the Pacifica Foundation, Prometheus Radio and several other outfits made a specific attempt to raise the number of African American owned and run community radio stations in the South. Out of their efforts, more than a hundred grassroots organizations, quite a few of them black, applied for new station licenses, especially in the South. This is not your daddy's black radio, or your momma's, or Radio One's discredited, conscienceless and commercial radio. This is the dawn of a new paradigm in black radio — the other black radio.
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November 8, 2007 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today a 60-day window for applicants in the October full-power window to file settlement agreements and to submit technical amendments. The window, starting today and ending January 7, 2008, will expedite the issuing of construction permits for stations that reach settlement agreements with mutually-exclusive applicants, and for new applications that are not competitive
with any filed during the filing window.
Download the full FCC notice in PDF or Microsoft Word formats.
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Hundreds Apply to Build Local Radio
Due to National Coalition Efforts
November 6, 2007 - From October 12 to October 22, 2007, over 350 local community groups across the country applied to the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for licenses to build new community radio stations. They
applied when, after much anticipation, the FCC lifted a freeze in effect
since 2000 on filings for Noncommercial Educational (NCE) radio licenses.
The NCE frequencies, residing on the left side of the FM dial between 88.1
MHz and 91.9 MHz, are granted by the federal government to nonprofit
organizations free of charge. "This is the last free spectrum," said FCC
attorney John Crigler, who helped community radio applicants. "and this
filing window will have social consequences. It is a last opportunity to
have a fight about values and how public spectrum ought to be used."
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