The Revolution Will Be Jammed -- Independent Radio Stations Will Be Destroyed By Regulation

The Revolution Will Be JAMMED!

KPFK Will Be Jammed for listeners to the South. (Scroll to Bottom For Detail)

Broadcast Industry's OWN STUDIES prove that Independent Community and College Radio signals are about to be jammed. Deadline for public comments is March 21st.

Richmond, Virginia 2/19/02:

Grassroots defenders of independent radio have found proof that a new airwaves regulatory plan will jam and eventually destroy the signals of small community, religious, and college radio stations.

A powerful coalition of mainstream broadcasters (National Association of Broadcasters, NAB) and the electronics manufacturers is pressuring the FCC to force broadcasters to stop transmitting in the current "analog" transmissions. This could cause great harm to the public and independent radio stations, warns one of the country's experts in community radio issues.

"The proof is in the industry's own studies," according to Christopher Maxwell, Secretary of the Virginia Center for Public Press, a non-profit educational organization supporting independent media and radio broadcasting.

Preliminary testing by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) proved that serious damage to existing FM and AM signals would occur, unless a third band was created solely for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). So ironically, the same organization pushing for all-digital proved it would be harmful.

Source: December 3rd, 2001 National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) [sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters and the Consumer Electronics Association] submitted a report from the Evaluation Working Group of the DAB Subcommittee of the NRSC entitled Evaluation of the iBiquity Digital Corporation  

    
 
       
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