Support For You
We offer opportunities for applicants and fellow-travelers to meet and plan. We provide information and technical support, hooking folks up with the experts in this process. We are identifying in-kind and financial support, talking with radio stations and other groups who may have broadcast equipment and other supplies to donate as well as foundations and other philanthropic groups. We'll give you as much moral support as you need!
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Be the Media!
On this site, you'll find resources for the next wave of community radio stations and hopeful applicants: documents about station building, community radio news, and ways to connect to others in the Radio for People coalition.
Background
After years of anticipation, The FCC lifted a freeze on applications for full-powered, noncommercial (NCE) radio licenses between October 12 and October 22, 2007. During those ten days, more than 350 local community groups across the country applied for frequencies on behalf of community radio. NCE frequencies, which reside on the FM dial between 88.1 MHz and 91.9 MHz, are granted to American citizens by the federal government as a public trust at no cost.
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Archived Recording of:
Business Planning for New Stations
Audio and slides from the web seminar presented by NFCB and Radio for People on Business Planning are now available on the NFCB website for download and review. To access this recording, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.nfcb.org/governance_operations_seminar.jsp#webinar
As new webinar recordings become available, we will continue posting them on the NFCB website there.
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Governance: Identifying your initial
leadership and the mechanisms your organization will use to ensure that
everyone among you follows an established set of policies.
Operations: The
day-to-day functions around your radio station, from running the
business office to addressing issues of personnel, space, on-air talent
and content, and a myriad other things.
If you’re a new station, this is the most important time to figure out
these vital components of your foundation. Join NFCB on July 14th for
a highly interactive, hour-long event which promises to guide you in
the right direction.
Learn about what has worked for community radio stations over the years
in areas like: building effective Boards, options for staff structures,
working with volunteers, and many other things. This is also your
chance to bring questions about matters of operations to the table and
we’ll share what has worked at community stations across the country.
- A culture of change and communication
- Being clear on the mission
- Roles, job descriptions, and written procedures
- Written policies
- Protecting Your Assets
- Outside resources
When: Monday, July 14 @ 12:00pm PT / 3:00pm ET
Cost: Free for NFCB Members, $25.00 for Non-Members
Presenter: Carol Pierson,
President and CEO, National Federation of Community Broadcasters
If you have questions, or to reserve your virtual space, contact:
Martina Tran at
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or call (510) 451-8200 ext. 307
This
is the second in a series of webinars that NFCB and Radio for People
are proud to announce for NCE applicant groups. Other topics that will
be scheduled in coming months include:
- Fundraising Options
- Applying For and Surviving PTFP Grants
- Legal Issues
- Planning and Building the Physical Plant (Transmitter and Studio Equipment)
- Program Development
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By Mike Janssen, Future of Music Coalition Blog
 Mary Francis
“We’re getting pretty darn tired of listening to all the religious
programming here in Oklahoma,” says Mary Francis, a retired teacher of
reading and former public radio commentator. Seeking to counter central
Oklahoma’s conservative culture and right-wing Christian broadcasters,
the passionate activist recently took up a new cause. She’s now leading
the charge to start a progressive FM radio station under the auspices
of the Norman Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (NUUF).
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By Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report
When, for the first time in decades, the FCC opened up a licensing window for new full-power FM community radio stations, mostly in rural areas around the country, the Pacifica Foundation, Prometheus Radio and several other outfits made a specific attempt to raise the number of African American owned and run community radio stations in the South. Out of their efforts, more than a hundred grassroots organizations, quite a few of them black, applied for new station licenses, especially in the South. This is not your daddy's black radio, or your momma's, or Radio One's discredited, conscienceless and commercial radio. This is the dawn of a new paradigm in black radio — the other black radio.
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November 8, 2007 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today a 60-day window for applicants in the October full-power window to file settlement agreements and to submit technical amendments. The window, starting today and ending January 7, 2008, will expedite the issuing of construction permits for stations that reach settlement agreements with mutually-exclusive applicants, and for new applications that are not competitive
with any filed during the filing window.
Download the full FCC notice in PDF or Microsoft Word formats.
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Hundreds Apply to Build Local Radio
Due to National Coalition Efforts
November 6, 2007 - From October 12 to October 22, 2007, over 350 local community groups across the country applied to the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for licenses to build new community radio stations. They
applied when, after much anticipation, the FCC lifted a freeze in effect
since 2000 on filings for Noncommercial Educational (NCE) radio licenses.
The NCE frequencies, residing on the left side of the FM dial between 88.1
MHz and 91.9 MHz, are granted by the federal government to nonprofit
organizations free of charge. "This is the last free spectrum," said FCC
attorney John Crigler, who helped community radio applicants. "and this
filing window will have social consequences. It is a last opportunity to
have a fight about values and how public spectrum ought to be used."
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