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.
See our plans in our application to the FCC for a Low Power FM broadcast license!

Index of Documents at the Radio Free Richmond Newsletters:

• Spring 1999
• Spring 1999 Updates
• Petition to support the Low Power Radio Service crests 200 ...
• Please view and print a copy of this petition by clicking here, fill it out and mail it to us.

Mail to: 1621 W. Broad St.,
            Richmond, Va. 23220
• Benefit concert 6/26/99 by Floating Folk Festival featuring Waking Hours

(and Pam McCarthy, Regan, May Lily Lee, Van Driver, and of course Brooke Saunders.) went well.
• Appearance in Fanfare (Fan newsletter) (thank-you Phaedra and Turk!)
• April 1999 Updates
• March 1999 Updates
• Winter 1998 (December)

Television & Entertainment Magazine Columns

• T&E_Classical Music should not be on "public radio" (If the LPRS fails)
• Table of Ratings and Rankings of 50+ Commercial Classical radio Stations ...
• T&E_Subdivisions in Colorado
• T&E OK, Gloves are off now!!
• T&E Truth is the first casualty of War ...

HOW TO GET ON-AIR THIS YEAR LIVE DISCUSSION show update July 1st 1999 7-8pm on MediaOne Cable Public Access Ch38 Our chance on the air threatened    Documentary: COM WARS: Random times on MediaOne Cable Ch38  (still photos and sound clips here) UPDATE: 169 signatures on Earth Day petition ! April 25th 1999. 91 Since then ... Goal 1000 Click to view/print the petition April 12th 1999 Richmond City Council Resolution support of Community Radio passes unanimously  NEWS RFRP in the news ... RFRP NEWSLETTERS and ALERTS Projects Hightower On-Air  Promote Diverse Programming another radio stations  Community Radio  Cable Public Access  ALT TO  STATUS QUO Out-of-Town Radio  RVA Radio Schedules featuring best shows  Other Media:  "Flicker" alternative local film festival (ongoing)

Who What Where When HOW  (PROPOSED programming)  First Chance In 20 Years ...FCC may actually open new frequencies and most importantly prevent huge monolithic and unrepresentative institutions from snapping them all up ... if we act!!  Frequently Asked Questions  Pirate vs "Legal" community Radio  Legal Community Radio  Pirate "Civil Disobedience" option NOTE:] See MediaOne Cable Ch38 for COMWARS documenting an Oct'98 march on washington in the Time-Honored American tradition of Civil Disobedience.  Don't Take OUR word for it ... (Links for more information on the sorry state of radio in Richmond and USA) LIST of several news reports... FCC Commissioner Tristani "Keeping the local in local radio" FCC Commissioner Tristani," Broadcast Views" FCC page on the Low Power Radio Service FCC Chaiman Kennard  Kennard's Speech to NAB  re: LPRS (25 min in)  (Note] Very interesting that the RealAudio recording of his speech was cut off RIGHT AT THE LPRS comments! Duncan's RadioReport... (RM-9242) Proposal to the FCC (tech discussion)

Daily Interest:                  (click LPFM "Grapevine") RFRP Newsletters INDEX of links LIVE PROGRAMS: 12N-2p weekdays Other Links of Daily Interest: Orndorff's Richmond Radio Page

The Communities of Interest (Interest groups, cultures etc) ignored by other radio stations ...
AKA those who are trying to make Richmond more supportive of a broader range of cultures.
 

Local Page Links

Cable-Public-Access

DECEMBER 1998 RADIO FREE RICHMOND PROJECT NEWSLETTER

Dixclestia AKA Dislexia

Don't Take OUR word for why we need community radio ...

Fanfare (Fan District Association newsletter) article

Frequently Asked Questions RE: Radio Free Richmond Project

Get on the air!!

Hightower Radio_off the "air" (Internet actually)

Index of documents on Radio Free Richmond Web Page

Is Richmond's WCVE Public TV Homophobic?

I Think I'm Right, But I KNOW I'm Wrong

I THINK I’m right, but I KNOW I’m wrong__Commercial Classical Music

Long-Distance (DX) competition for Richmond's AM-FM stations.

Make_RFRP_Home

May a thousand values bloom ... Radio Free Richmond listeners can help each other thrive ...

Petition to open new programming opportunities (CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND PRINT PETITION)

Promote Hightower in Richmond Virginia.

Radio Free Richmond Project's Murrow's Hope_Spring_1999

Radio Free Richmond Project Newsletter for March 1999

Radio Notes for Richmond Virginia ...

Republicans Kill Community Radio

Richmond Virginia Radio Programming Listings

Richmond City Council Unanimously votes in favor of Community Radio

Radio Free Richmond Project Broschure

Radio_Free_Richmond_Project: Legal Community vs "Pirate" Community Radio

Radio Free Richmond Listener Information Service Series information page

Spring 1999 Fanfare Article

T&E ... Gloves are off: "I've had all the diversity I can stand", said Conrad Burns

T&E: Subdivisions (In Colorado)

TECHNO_TRANCE_AMBIENT in Richmond Virginia

Whats on NPR of interest to Radio in Richmond Virginia

What's On TV in Richmond Virginia

Links to the outside world
from the Radio Free Richmond Web Page:

http://www3.electriciti.com/benj/cities/ricmond.htm

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sld/sld-1-09.html

http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/rab/rab-8.html

http://www.wwbt.com/livrad.htm

http://www.wunderground.com/US/VA/Richmond.html

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/Radar.html

http://www.wumb.org/web-tune.htm

http://www.wpfw.org/

http://www.wmnf.org

http://www.whro.org/895_WHRV_FM/

http://www.wgms.com/promote.html

http://www.webactive.com

http://www.weather.com/weather/sat/regions/animated/northeast_sat_450x284.html

http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc

http://www.wcve.org

http://www.wclv.com/advantage.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/music/features/buzzoff0514.htm

http://www.wamu.org/

http://www.wakinghours.com/

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html

http://www.ultimatetv.com/

http://www.udel.edu/nero/Radio/classical.html

http://www.tvguide.com/listings/framebase.asp?I=&Zip=

http://www.tvguide.com/

http://www.thislife.org/

http://www.student.richmond.edu/~wdce/

http://www.rickontv.com/

http://www.richmond.com/index.cfm

http://www.recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=366061

http://www.reason.com/9906/fe.jw.radio.html

http://www.radiostation.com

http://www.radiodiversity.com/index2.html

http://www.radioblack.com/Virginia.html#black_owned

http://www.radioart.org/

http://www.radio4all.org

http://www.publicdisclosure.org/cgi-win/_pacpg.exe?C0000998598

http://www.pri.org/webfiles/Programs/NewAge.html#Afropop

http://www.pps.org/urbanparks/rrparkuse_earls.html

http://www.pilotonline.com/

http://www.pbs.org/pov/

http://www.papertiger.org/index.html

http://www.pacifica.org/programs/pnn/index.html

http://www.pacifica.org/programs/democracy_now/

http://www.pacifica.org/

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/speeches/91197nabob.htm

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19981005.atc.17.ram

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19980930.atc.15.ram

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980715.atc.04.ram

http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/music/

http://www.npr.org/programs/anthem/feedback.html

http://www.npr.org/inside/vision.html

http://www.npr.org

http://www.nlgcdc.org/basic.html

http://www.nber.org/digest/jan98/w6057.html

http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/0,1088,17712-29264-214251-0,00.html

http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab99/daily/wc_kennard.asp

http://www.multichannel.com/

http://www.motherjones.com/parrish/

http://www.mediahistory.com/teevee.html

http://www.marketplace.org/features/underwriting/

http://www.marketplace.org/features/radio_days/

http://www.marketplace.org/

http://www.loe.org/html/transcripts/971219.html#feature2

http://www.loe.org/html/thisweek.html

http://www.loe.org/

http://www.lbbs.org/zmag/articles/feb95barsamian.htm

http://www.jimhightower.com/

http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/BlackRadio.html

http://www.igc.org/deepdish/index.html

http://www.hos.com/

http://www.hallikainen.com/lpfm/comments/NPR.html

http://www.hallikainen.com/lpfm/comments/NCAB.html

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/5867

http://www.gavin.com/industry/radio/9904/92.shtml

http://www.gatewayva.com/

http://www.frn.net/vines/

http://www.freespeech.org/

http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/series/radio.series.1.asp

http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1999/2/19kennard.asp

http://www.freedomforum.org/

http://www.floatingfolk.com/index.htm

http://www.flicker.org

http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Tristani/spgt811.html

http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Tristani/spgt808.html

http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/prd/lpfm/

http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/kennard/speeches.html

http://www.fcc.gov

http://www.fair.org/military.html

http://www.fair.org/counterspin/index.html

http://www.dwguide.demon.co.uk/

http://www.duncanradio.com/comments.html#apr

http://www.disinfo.com/

http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/97_ad/9702_ad/9702a29.htm

http://www.c-span.org/guide/schedule/

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/01/28/fp3s1-csm.shtml

http://www.csmonitor.com

http://www.concentric.net/~Radiotv/

http://www.capcity.com/wpfwradio/wpfwlive.ram

http://www.cableworld.com/Articles/News99/1999032205.htm

http://www.bouldernews.com/extra/rave/

http://www.benton.org/cpphome.html

http://www.beatworld.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/enginfo/fm_recep/aer_inst.htm

http://www.afa.net/

http://www.adelaida.net:8204/music/texts/rush82.html

http://www.adbusters.org/main/index.html

http://www.aclu.org/about/right3.html

http://wmbc.umbc.edu/engineering/lpfm/yahoo-microradio.html

http://whyy.org/freshair/

http://ravehousetech.miningco.com/msubresearch.htm?pid=2798&cob=home

http://ravehousetech.miningco.com/msubhistory.htm?pid=2798&cob=home

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/orndorff/radio.htm

http://nscp.snap.com/main/channel/item/0,4,-7298,00.html?st.sn.sr.0.7298

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/default.htm

http://members.aol.com/Wrfr/Whats_in_Washington_Post_for_Richmond_Virginia.htm

http://magi.com/~moted/dr/edr-1.html

http://iris.npr.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+npr+npr+43845+0+wAAA+micro%26radio

http://iris.npr.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+npr+npr+43845+0+wAAA+

http://iris.npr.org/plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+npr+npr+35781+1+wAAA+Microbroadcasting

http://eb.journ.latech.edu/coll_res/FM-radio.html

http://com-notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/768df0faa6d9ddab852564f1004886c0/d5f7f109cf5f4e9b8525673100818fe2?OpenDocument

http://com-notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/768df0faa6d9ddab852564f1004886c0/1efbac34dbf42d9c85256752004fdc17?OpenDocument

http://audio.wmnf.org/live.ram

http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/nyfma/str/MRkennard.html

http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/articles/article1.html

http://207.42.32.124/winegard.htm

http://207.42.32.124/skip.htm
 
 

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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.

We are 
"Radio For 
The Rest Of Us."

Get on the air before 2000: 

 

More information on LPFM

 

Effort to defend our ability to hear WDCE 90.1FM as well as any new LPFM stations.

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.

 

Read more details on the LPRS in Spring'99 Newsletter "Murrow's Hope"

 

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Radio Free Richmond Founding Premises:

Premise:	Our Democratic Republic depends on a careful balance of power and an effective “free press”  that is neither onerously influenced by government or overly centralized private influence.
Premise:	"Freedom of speech does not exist in the  abstract. On the contrary, the right to speak can  flourish only if it is allowed to operate in an  effective forum -- whether it be a public park or a radio frequency. For in the absence of an  effective means of communications, the right to  speak would ring hollow indeed. And, in  recognition of these principles, we have consistently  held that the First Amendment embodies,   not only the abstract right to be free from censorship,  but also the right of the individual to  utilize an appropriate and effective medium for  the expression of his views."  Justice of the Supreme Court William Brennan
Premise:	The American Dream is  to be who you want to be as you define it. To realize this you must be informed
Premise:	"Media is the lifeblood of a Free Society",  Newt Gingrich  "Information is the currency of democracy.",  Thomas Jefferson
Premise:	A stable society is an inclusive and just society.. Media is the feedback loop between those who make policy  and those who suffer from policy.
Premise:	America can only function with justice so long as the media includes the broadest possible spectrum of news/views and culture.
Concluding Premise:	A truly free press, free of concentrated control by any group of people, governmental, business or religious and that provides a place for everyone's stories to be heard ... is vital to the continued success and just stability of the Great Experiment, the United States.

 

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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.)