Posted on March 7, 2008 by Missoula Community Radio
We are hot on the trail of expanding low power community radio aroundthe country, both in Congress and at the FCC. Thanks to the efforts of low power radio supporters like you, the Local Community Radio Act :
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR02802:@@@P) —
which will lift the restrictions on Low Power FM — has 70 co-sponsors in the House [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Missoula Community Radio
Dear Missoula Community Radio,
Congress can overturn the FCC’s bad rules to further consolidate local media.
Veto the FCC’s Big Media Handout
Now’s your best chance to stop media consolidation in Montana.
The Senate introduced legislation earlier this week that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to let the nation’s largest media companies swallow up more local and [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Missoula Community Radio
Think Progress
Friday, March 7, 2008
A new Harris Interactive poll finds that over half of Americans — 54 percent — say they tend not to trust the press, “with only 30 percent tending to trust the press.” More Americans (41 percent) trust “Internet news and information sites” than they do the mainstream media. Radio tends to [...]
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