[BC] All Things Considered on FM allocations...take 2

[Greg Newton]

--On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:17 PM -0200 "Douglas B. Pritchett" 
<dpritchett1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> While I normally shun NPR programming (their vocal delivery drives me
> nutz), I look forward to this story.
> Some might say it's ironic that, in some cases, public (NPR) broadcasters
> helped kick the 10 watters to the curb when they had to upgrade or die .
> Can't cite an example here and now, but I'll see what I can find.

They did file comments in the rulemaking that did away with Class D 
supporting the elimination of the small stations, arguing that would allow 
them to get more full-powered NPR members on the air. This would supposedly 
better serve the audience and be a more efficient use of the spectrum. IIRC 
(wrote a paper that touched on this about 10 years ago), they actually 
promised that they would have several hundred new stations on the air over 
that next decade...fell a little short of that.
--
Greg