http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2009/11/23/texas-says-no-to-the-fccs-proposed-localism-rules/ News, views and tough love for radio. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:51 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2009/11/23/texas-says-no-to-the-fccs-proposed-localism-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Matthew Lasar Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:41:40 +0000 http://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=1473#comment-76 It is no surprise that Senator Hutchison of Texas can't be bothered with supporting Low Power FM. She's too busy trying to stop net neutrality legislation and get a bill passed that would allow prisons to jam cell phones. But your proposal for a Local Programming Digital Signage panel sounds great. Maybe if the FCC and Congress get serious about moving spectrum from these broadcasters to wireless service providers, they'll start taking their public interest obligations more seriously. It is no surprise that Senator Hutchison of Texas can’t be bothered with supporting Low Power FM. She’s too busy trying to stop net neutrality legislation and get a bill passed that would allow prisons to jam cell phones. But your proposal for a Local Programming Digital Signage panel sounds great. Maybe if the FCC and Congress get serious about moving spectrum from these broadcasters to wireless service providers, they’ll start taking their public interest obligations more seriously.

]]> http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2009/11/23/texas-says-no-to-the-fccs-proposed-localism-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Philip Goetz Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:17:04 +0000 http://www.radiosurvivor.com/?p=1473#comment-75 I live in Austin Texas and attended the TAB conference two years in a row. August of 2008 I attended a panel called "Local Programming Idea Exchange". There was an engaging presenter doing some great work near Dallas with a local club on music and fashion, someone from College Station talking about what they do, but the consensus is that local programming is too expensive to do. I raised my hand and mentioned the number of Radio Television and Film grads ot of work in Austin. Te answer that came back was that they need to leave Austin and go to a smaller market. I emailed the moderator and he put me in touch with the education co-ordinator at TAB. To this day I have not received a response from either of these individuals but my point was that if broadcast doesn't shape up then there is going to be a panel called "Local Programming Idea Exchange for Digital Signage Networks" and TAB won't exist. On another note I emailed Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson about the local community radio act. Freepress had a "email your congress person" type of thing and the form letter I received back mentioned "interference". I had to direct her to two passages in my lpfm research paper. MITER report said no go on interference and the word "interference" was priviledged over "competition" in a memo from Minnesota public broadcast. No response. Let me know how to help from here in Texas. My complete report is linked out from here: http://www.lp-fm.org/research.php I live in Austin Texas and attended the TAB conference two years in a row. August of 2008 I attended a panel called “Local Programming Idea Exchange”. There was an engaging presenter doing some great work near Dallas with a local club on music and fashion, someone from College Station talking about what they do, but the consensus is that local programming is too expensive to do. I raised my hand and mentioned the number of Radio Television and Film grads ot of work in Austin. Te answer that came back was that they need to leave Austin and go to a smaller market. I emailed the moderator and he put me in touch with the education co-ordinator at TAB. To this day I have not received a response from either of these individuals but my point was that if broadcast doesn’t shape up then there is going to be a panel called “Local Programming Idea Exchange for Digital Signage Networks” and TAB won’t exist. On another note I emailed Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson about the local community radio act. Freepress had a “email your congress person” type of thing and the form letter I received back mentioned “interference”. I had to direct her to two passages in my lpfm research paper. MITER report said no go on interference and the word “interference” was priviledged over “competition” in a memo from Minnesota public broadcast. No response. Let me know how to help from here in Texas. My complete report is linked out from here: http://www.lp-fm.org/research.php

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