On Radio: FCC turns up volume on local radio

ON RADIO: FCC TURNS UP VOLUME ON LOCAL RADIO
[SOURCE: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, AUTHOR: Bill Virgin]
While there's likely to be an abundance of verbal posturing and sniping at Friday's Federal Communications Commission hearing Friday in Seattle on media ownership, there's one issue on which many of the parties are actually in agreement: putting more local content into local radio. To that end, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has in recent weeks talked about reviving a concept that at one time generated considerable excitement but in recent months has been largely dormant: low-power FM stations. In testimony last month to the House Committee on Small Business, Chairman Martin said that "low-power FM provides a lower-cost opportunity for more new voices to get into the local radio market. The commission currently is considering an order that would ensure that LPFM stations have reasonable access to limited radio spectrum."
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