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Sunday, January 28, 2007

FW: [ciw-announce] FCC to give free radio licenses to non-profit organizations!

   This might be useful to some of the orgs/people you work with...

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From: coaimmwkr <workers@ciw-online.org>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:56:04 -0000
To: <ciw-announce@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [ciw-announce] FCC to give free radio licenses to non-profit organizations!

 
 
 

As many of you may know, the CIW is the proud owner of a low-power
radio license, and our member-run Radio Conciencia (107.9 FM in
Immokalee) is at the heart of our community organizing work.

Well, now's YOUR chance, only this time, it's not for a low-power
license, but for free FULL power licenses through the FCC for
non-profit organizations across the country!

Prometheus Radio is a dedicated group of community radio activists out
of Philadelphia that helped us apply for our low-power license and
assemble our radio station from scratch.  They're an amazing group of
people, and they asked us to forward the following announcement to our
listserve in order to inform other communities of the opportunity out
there today and to keep the media reform movement alive and
mushrooming across the nation.  Here's the announcement from
Prometheus, and if you have any questions, you'll find a number in the
announcement where you can call for some straight answers.  Thanks -
Coalition of Immokalee Workers:
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Ever listen to the radio and think- "I could do this better?" Here's
your chance!

The FCC is opening up a rare opportunity where they will be giving
away free radio licenses to non-profit organizations. Usually
commercial stations like this sell for millions of dollars, but since
these are non-commercial channels they are given out for free.

If your group meets the qualifications, and a frequency is available,
you can start a radio station.

Sound too good to be true? There is a catch.  The channels that are
available are mostly just in smaller cities and rural areas. Your
group would  have to pay for engineering and legal consultants, and
the costs of equipment, all of which could run twenty to a hundred
thousand dollars.  And most places only have one or two open channels,
and sometimes the competition  can be complicated between the various
 activist groups, agencies, schools, and churches for that one channel.  

But your group has as good a chance as anyone else!  Prometheus has
helped to build radio stations for  civil rights groups, unions,
schools, tribes, environmentalists and neighborhood organizations of
all sorts.  And finally, this is the first time that the FCC has done
this in close to 15 years and it is quite possible that it will be
another 15 years before they open it again.

If you want to know more, you can take a look at radioforpeople.org or
 call the  Prometheus Radio Project at 215-727-9620, We can help you
to  claim your communities slice of the FM dial!

 
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