[imc-st.louis] Fwd: Comment today to bring low power FM to your neighborhood!

[Ben West]

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 Subject: Comment today to bring low power FM to your neighborhood!

 Dear friends and family of community radio,

 Greetings from Prometheus Radio!  It's coming down to the wire for
Low Power FM at the Federal Communications Commission -- and we need
your help!  The deadline for your comments on a crucial low power
radio proceeding at the FCC is today -- Monday, April 7 -- at
midnight.  Take a minute now to tell the FCC that you support Low
Power FM!

 File FCC Comments Now to Make Sure There's Room for Low Power Radio!

 http://prometheusradio.org/take_action/fcc_comments/i_wanna_station.html

 or here:

 http://tinyurl.com/26f6dl

 The FCC is currently accepting your comments on the future of Low
Power FM -- but time is running out!  Comments are due midnight on
Monday, April 7.  Now is the time to make your voice heard as the FCC
decides on rules which will have a big impact on whether there's room
in your town for new local community radio stations or more of the
same schlock we're all sick of -- it will take only a minute of your
time and will mean a lot if you want a radio station in your
community!

 We are hot on the trail of expanding low power community radio around
 the country, both in Congress and at the FCC.  Thanks to the efforts of
 low power radio supporters like you, the Local Community Radio Act --
 which will lift the restrictions on Low Power FM -- has almost 80
 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and last fall unanimously
 passed the Senate Commerce Committee.

 File Comments at the FCC to Make Sure There's Room for Low Power Radio!

 Visit:
 http://prometheusradio.org/take_action/fcc_comments/i_wanna_station.html

 or here:

 http://tinyurl.com/26f6dl

 And if you and your community already have a station, file comments
here to ask the FCC to protect our stations, and keep them on the air
instead of knocking them off to make way for full power stations
encroaching on our cities and towns!

 File comments here to protect our stations:
 http://prometheusradio.org/take_action/fcc_comments/save_our_stations.html

 or here:
 http://tinyurl.com/34ft39

 This is your chance to tell the FCC to ensure that there are spots on
 the dial for low power radio -- as they decide how to establish a fair
 balance between the right of your community group to have one single
 channel for a local community radio station versus the right of existing
 stations to repeat themselves on 2nd, 3rd, 97th and 821st channels
 across the country.

 We think it should run like the school lunch line -- every one gets at
 least a reasonable opportunity for a first portion, before anyone gets
 seconds.

 The more the FCC hears the stories of folks like yourself, the better
 all of our chances are of convincing them to change their policies and
 make more LPFM channels available.  Feel free to forward this email to
 other people whose comments you think will also make a difference!

 File Comments at the FCC to Make Sure There's Room for Low Power radio!

 Visit:
 http://prometheusradio.org/take_action/fcc_comments/i_wanna_station.html

 or here:

 http://tinyurl.com/26f6dl

 electromagnetically yours,

 Prometheus Radio Project

 PS -- Already have a station?  File comments here to ask the FCC to
 protect our stations, and keep them on the air instead of knocking them
 off to make way for full power stations encroaching on our cities and
 towns!  File comments here to protect our stations:
 http://prometheusradio.org/take_action/fcc_comments/save_our_stations.html
 or here: http://tinyurl.com/34ft39 .

 PPS -- Want more background on the questions being asked in the FCC
 rulemaking to bring more low power FM radio stations to your
 communities?  Check out this document by REC Networks:
 http://recnet.com/fcc/99-25_2nprm_questions.pdf -- or if you want
more info? Contact Kate at katharan at prometheusradio.org or at (215)
727-9620 x 523!


-- 
Ben West
westbywest at gmail.com
http://savetheinternet.org