More Bluegrass Radio in Your Community?

Or in many cases, Need The FIRST Bluegrass Radio In Your Community?

It may just be up to you.  Congress has cleared the way for more low powered FM community radio stations and the bill has been sent to President Obama for his signature.

Here's the story published in the current IBMA Newsletter:
The Local Community Radio Act, a bill to expand community radio nationwide, passed the U.S. Senate in December. The bill has already passed in the House of Representatives, and has been sent to President Obama for his signature. In response to grassroots support during the past ten years, Congress has given the FCC a mandate to license thousands of new community stations nationwide. Specifically, the Local Community Radio Act will expand the low power FM service created by the FCC in 2000, a service the FCC created to add diversity of voices on the radio. At present over 800 LPFM stations, all locally owned, are on the air and run by non-profit organizations, local governments, churches, schools and emergency responders. 


From the Prometheus Radio Newsletter:
“A town without a community radio station is like a town without a library,” said Pete Tridish of the Prometheus Radio Project, the group which has led the fight to expand community radio for ten years. “Many a small town dreamer – starting with a few friends and bake sale cash – has successfully launched a low power station, and built these tiny channels into vibrant town institutions that spotlight school board elections, breathe life into the local music scene, allow people to communicate in their native languages, and give youth an outlet to speak.”