Low-Power FM Radio Petition

Big Broadcasters have blocked local community voices for long enough! It's time to trash their anti-competitive agenda and reclaim radio!

The Local Community Radio Act ends any further delay in low-power FM radio implementation. LPFM stations would increase media diversity and give schools, churches and other civic organizations a greater voice on the airwaves and in their communities.

Text of Petition:
Dear (name):

I call on you to co-sponsor/support the Local Community Radio Act, recently introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).

In 2000, shortly after the FCC began allowing nonprofit groups to broadcast on the FM band, Congress imposed unnecessary rules requiring low-power community radio stations to find available frequencies far away from any full-power broadcaster.

Both the FCC itself and an independent study by the Mitre Group have concluded that allowing more low-power FM licenses will “do no harm” to other broadcasters. The current low- power FM rules go beyond what is necessary to protect full power stations from interference, and instead protect them from healthy competition.

The Local Community Radio Act directly responds to recommendations by the FCC, and ends any further delay in low-power FM radio implementation. Please support this bill. Expansion of low-power FM would increase media diversity and give schools, churches and other civic organizations a greater voice on the airwaves and in their communities.

(Your comment here)

Sincerely,

(Your name)
(Your address)