Re: VPR repeaters

[Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>]

At 10:22 AM 9/22/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>It's also rather illegal, since LPFM's cannot be owned by entities that
>already own or have attributable interest in an existing broadcast entity
>(with certain, VERY specific exceptions).   Not to mention the point system
>that weighs heavily on the side of local ownership and locally-originated
>programming.  How is VPR getting around this?

They're not LPFMs, they're translators (or will be). Blame the mass media 
for not getting the story
right in the first place - or perhaps credit the mass media for seeing 
beyond the silly distinctions the
FCC makes and understanding that a 100-watt transmitter is a 100-watt 
transmitter is a 100-watt
transmitter...

s