Northern California LPFM Outreach Volunteer Workshops: Sacto/Davis 2/8 and Bay Area 2/11. Help make radio. Stay tuned!

Davis/Sacramento - Friday, February 8th. Location: Davis Media Access 1623 5th Street Davis, CA (Time TBD - probably 4:00pm)

Oakland/San Francisco - Monday, February 11th at 6:00pm. Location: Media Alliance 1904 Franklin Street, #325 (3rd Floor Conference Room), Oakland, CA

Update: 1/13: A coalition of groups has filed a petition for reconsideration asking the FCC to add low-power service at lower wattages (LP10 and LP50) to enable new stations in overcrowded markets.

Update 1/6: On New Year's Day, the often sluggish FCC shocked everyone by announcing a 15-day filing window starting Jan 10th for incumbent broadcasters with pending translator caps that violate the national and per-market caps to submit lists of which applications they want to dismiss in order to get into compliance with the rules. This aggressive timeline is a good sign that low power radio implementation is on-schedule.

FCC announcement available here: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db1221/DA-12-2073A1.pdf

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This morning, the Federal Communications Commissions announced that the window for filing applications for the thousands of new low-power radio stations available in cities and towns across the nation as a result of the Low Power Community Radio Act will be in October of 2013.

After a 15-year wait, the extra space between incumbent broadcaster's signals has finally been freed up across the nation for the public's use.

Until the very last minute, it wasn't clear that the final rules for the filing window would be favorable for the maximum number of community-based stations:

Advocates pushed very hard for 2nd adjacent channel waivers to be available and for a fair disposition of tens of thousands of backed-up translator applications from incumbent broadcasters.

Today is a day for celebration as the rules came out very positively for low-power radio to thrive.

More soon ...