What: Community Cable Public Access TV Channels And  Radio  stations	Why: We need competition.	How: Educate Organize	Who: YOU  (150-300 volunteer DJ/News/Talk hosts =300 different views/cultures.	12/08/00:  Appropriations bill with LPFM killer bill STILL attached in negotiations THIS WEEKEND! Q: Will Clinton trade away LPFM?? Will Clinton follow-through on veto threat? McCain complains, Clinton promises Veto. Sound clips HERE. NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET!!!!!!!
See our plans in our application to the FCC for a Low Power FM broadcast license!

Yuo knwo, when teh wrods aer all truned aruound.

Reading the numbers off the bottom of the check can be a real pain!!

So with so many people who are, shall we say, "linearly challenged" or "otherwise ordered" and us working on an effort to build a radio station that is desighned to be a real community resource it seemed the perfect time to start creating really useful PSAs.

If you are anything like me, you are tired of PSAs that just waste your time with "nanny talk" like "don't set the forest on fire", "Don't beat your wife or kids" or "don't do drugs".

Howabout something really useful?

Howabout PSAs that introduce you to a tip for living with some problem like Dislexia ...
then giving your a number at the end of the PSA, you remember it or scribble it on your hand at a stoplight
Then you come visit a website that would give you links on the web, reading lists, maybe even local contacts on that problem!

... Well, we don't have any tips yet, we are just putting this page out here so that with any luck, people will send us their tips and we can turn them into Public Service Announcements to play on community Low Power FM radio stations all over the United States (we hope).
Would you consider helping? Please email us your tips on dealing with dislexia so that we may help others!

Author ... you?
Please email the Radio Free Richmond Project is you can help us create this page and the Listener Information Service Series. (aka LISSs, as in LISSSten to the radio.).

USE THIS LINK TO EMAIL CLINTON AND SENATORS TO PROVIDE US WITH TRACKING so we know how many people have contacted their representatives.

Senator Warner 771-2579 senator@warner.senate.gov

Governor Allen 775-2000
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Radio Free Richmond
seeks to be a light unto those who are not illuminated by existing commercial, religious or public radio stations.

We will play the News Views Jazz and Blues techno and free-form other radio stations would rather not use.

In this way we will contribute to a stable and just society where everyone can become who they want to be. 

We seek to enable the weakest links in our society to become strong  so that no-one can thrive on the pain and weakness of others.

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The Fall 2000 "Murrow's Hope" newsletter is the Video SlideShow and Audio File (playing now on AT&T and Comcast Cable Public Access channels)... or you can read the script here.

 

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WHAT IS LPFM?
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LPFM stands for "Low Power FM". LPFM is essentially the re-legalization of small affordable radio stations for new entrants to create competition to serve audiences ignored by larger stations.

The Big Broadcasters have had the rules bent for decades to make room for their 40,000 and 100,000 watt stations to squeeze onto the dial and spew horrible morning shows and repeat the same music over and over and over ... 
for DECADES!

Now a few thousand churches, educational and community civic groups want to get the same deal and make space on the FM dial to build affordable radio stations to bring those stories, values, culture and music that the big religious, NPR and commercial networks can't be bothered with. 
Your stories, values, culture and music.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) received 13,000 requests for a slot to 
build a station in 1997.

Thousands of "pirate" radio stations have taken to the air for $1000 each or less. 

The FCC received over 3000 formal comments in the Low Power FM hearings, more than any other issue in FCC history!!

And so the FCC created the "Low Power FM" broadcast service. Designed to be affordable (less than a new car) and protected from the big boys (only new and only new local ownership can apply for one).

LPFM has BROAD public support, half of the LPFM applicants are (often) conservative churches, half are educational organizations or radical change organizations. 

And the Big Broadcasters know this and can't stand the competition. The Big Broadcasters are trying to cut costs, cut jobs by running all their radio stations by remote control. They don't want to have to hire back that staff because some 98 watt LPFM weakling is doing a better job on local music, culture and news than they can remotely. 

And so here we are at the tail end of a Senate Session. They were due to adjourn last week. 
Many Senators want to go home and campaign for reelection.

The Big Broadcasters are working hard to get our Senators all lined up to kill LOCAL COMMUNITY AND CHURCH radio 
that would increase their expenses because they would have to compete with us for your heart and soul.

The Big Broadcasters hope that President Clinton will not follow through on his promise to veto 
any bill that harms Low Power FM.

We need to provide Clinton with the support he needs to veto anti-LPFM legislation no matter what.
 
 

ALSO: remind Clinton that you don't appreciate NPR President Kevin Klose going against his own NPR membership stations in opposing Low Power FM, using tax money to kick thousands of church and educational LPFM radio stations off the air.
 
 

NPR affiliate Brasher, "I felt a little like a citizen might feel if he woke up one morning to find that a new president had been elected, but nobody told him there was an election. Frankly, I really doubt that the position taken by the officers, and I understand, this Board, represents the true feelings of the men and women who work in National Public Radio and in our stations.!"  (Speaking to the NPR board about President Kevin Klose's apparently renegade attack on LPFM.)