URGENT ACTION NEEDED NOW!

There is a strong possibility that The Local Community Radio Act will be voted on and PASSED next week, the week of December 14th.    This bill will lift the restrictions on LPFM.  WE NEED YOU to call your Congressperson and your Senator starting today.  Tell them to vote FOR this piece of legislation. 

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERY PERSON AND LIST YOU HAVE AND ASK PEOPLE TO MAKE CALLS - it is vital that we pass this.

BACKGROUND:
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission established the Low Power FM (LPFM) radio service -- noncommercial, local, low-powered radio that schools, community groups, churches, and any nonprofit like Radio Free Nashville could use to broadcast local information to their local community.  There are about 800 LPFM stations on air all across the country -- but groups in many communities and most big cities who applied for these great new stations all lost out.  Why?  

Because the big broadcasters -- represented by the National Association of Broadcasters -- convinced Congress that little LPFM stations like us would interfere with big radio stations in big cities and make the radio dial unlistenable.  So Congress limited low power FM to rural areas.

But when they passed that law, Congress asked the FCC to study whether or not LPFM stations would really cause interference. The FCC hired a big, independent engineering firm to study this potential interference, and five years and $2.2 million later, they proved that LPFM was a great idea in big cities as well as small communities. 

The Local Community Radio Act will finally begin to right the wrongs that were done to LPFM.

CALL TODAY.  PASS THIS ON.  LET'S GET THIS PASSED.