[BC] RADIO FREE BRATTLEBORO

[Harold Hallikainen]

>From Benton Communications Headlines (http://www.benton.org)

RADIO FREE BRATTLEBORO
[SOURCE: Rutland Herald (VT), AUTHOR: Daniel Barlow
daniel.barlow at rutlandherald.com]
Negotiations on a possible settlement between radio free brattleboro and
the Federal Communications Commission recently collapsed and an attorney
for the former 10-watt community station plans to ask a local judge for a
new hearing. Station lawyer James Maxwell said that negotiations on a
possible settlement in the nearly three-year-old case between the
unlicensed radio station and the Commission have ended without a
resolution.The controversial radio station launched in 1998 and broadcasted
throughout the town of 12,000 without any problems until a Guilford
resident lodged a complaint with the FCC in early 2003 that its signal was
interfering with a Massachusetts public radio station. Members of the
station claimed the FCC, which at the time was not issuing any low-power FM
licenses, served only large media corporations. Attorneys for the station
have argued that a successful town meeting question and resolution of
support from the Brattleboro Select Board comprised its authority to
broadcast in the region. Brattleboro Community Radio, a new group formed by
another local nonprofit group, plans to begin broadcasting at 107.7 FM this
spring after the FCC issued it a 100-watt license last year.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060110/NEWS/601100355/1024


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