Re: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; "Sid Schweiger"
<sid@wrko.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro


> Sorry Dan, but LPFM is no solution at all.  It's a half-assed attempt to
> solve 10% of the overall problem while paying lip service to the remaining
90%.
>
> It's still practically impossible for community groups to get licensed
> except in the most remote of areas.  For example, the closest possible
LPFM
> allocation was over 70 miles from Boston.  Hell of a lot of good that does
> with most of the demand for new licenses around New England was in Boston.

Burlington is pretty remote.  Does anyone know if it is possible to get a
LPFM license there?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine