The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Low Power Radio

• Overview & Table of Contents
• What is LPFM?
• Congress Second Guesses its Expert Agency on Spectrum Allocation
• Low Power Radio: An Antidote to the Modern Radio Industry
• Demographics of Radio Station Ownership
• Participation in Employment by Minorities and Women
• Radio Consolidation and Homogenization
• Conclusion

Examples of Low Power Stations

• Success on the Dial
• Lost Opportunities 

Appendices

• Appendix A: Many Exciting New Stations Potentially on Low Power Radio 
• Appendix B: Third Adjacent, Second Adjacent – What does it all mean?

Conclusion

The success of LPFM is important to the civil rights community. In an era of mass media consolidation, the civil rights community believes that it is important to preserve an avenue through which diverse viewpoints can be represented over the public airwaves. By dramatically lowering financial and other barriers that prevent many community voices from being heard on the airwaves, the FCC’s low power FM initiative represents the best opportunity in years for diversity in radio broadcasting and ownership.

Next Section: Success on the Dial: Woodburn, Ore; South Bend, Ind.; Oroville, Calif.; and Immokalee, Fla.