The U.S. Senate has passed the Local Community Radio Act, which will open up more of the radio dial for new Low Power FM stations. <\/p>\n
Could it be that just as we’re all fearing a crackdown on Net Neutrality, humble community radio stations will come to the rescue as information relay hubs? Any college dj with access to an old-fashioned set of Encyclopedia Britannica in hardback could set up an info hotline for listeners to call in with questions. Sure it might be a little slower than Google, but it would certainly add the warmth of the human touch. I envision university libraries housing radio stations on their top floors, with stables of work-study students acting as “runners” to look up information in the stacks. And we could still call it “WWW” — for World Wide (radio) Waves.<\/p>\n
And to think the decision came with Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius. Any thoughts on whether that bodes well for mass communication with some soul or bodes ill for the act gaining any traction? <\/p>\n
In all seriousness, as someone who listens to my local college and community station daily, I’m actually really happy about the decision. Let’s keep putting more communications power into small, localized outlets. — amanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. Senate has passed the Local Community Radio Act, which will open up more of the radio dial for new Low Power FM stations. Could it be that just as we’re all fearing a crackdown on Net Neutrality, humble community radio stations will come to the rescue as information relay hubs? Any college dj … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}