On Friday October 5, 2007, Hannah Sassaman of Prometheus Radio Project was a guest on WCRX-LP. She discussed the low power FM radio movements with WCRX-LP radio host John Manning.
Sassaman is active throughout the U.S. in helping individuals and organizations establish local radio services. She is also active in Washington D.C. lobbying efforts on radio issues for Prometheus Radio Project.
Prometheus Radio Project is headquartered in Philadelphia. Its core activity is providing technical advice and physical assistance to groups establishing community radio stations.
Sassaman said that Prometheus Radio Project has helped farm worker organizations, civil rights groups and neighborhood groups establish low power FM radio stations. The kind of physical assistance Prometheus Radio Project has provided new stations is called a “barn-raising” where volunteers travel to the proposed station location and help the local group assemble equipment, raise the antenna tower and begin broadcasting. All of this work is accomplished by volunteers in a single weekend.
Sassaman came to her work for Prometheus Radio Project while she was a student at University of Pennsylvania.
Sassaman described her experience of street dynamics during the 2000 Republican national convention in Philadelphia. In confrontations, news reporting and subsequent legal proceedings, Sassaman recognized how the interaction of journalism and law enforcement define events.
On last Thursday evening at Ohio State University, Sassaman offered insights into local radio with a group of about seventy five listeners. She said that most of the audience were students and faculty. Her presentation was by invitation of a local group called Democracy Matters and was done in conjunction with a media conference at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University.
She discussed Congressional legislative efforts to permit the Federal Communications Commission to open up the airwaves to more LPFM stations. In particular, she said that the legislative effort is directed at increasing the number of LPFM stations in the major metropolitan areas. Sassaman discussed the “Local Radio Bill of 2007” identical versions of which have been introduced in to the House as H2802 in the Senate as S1675.
Columbus, Ohio is fairly unusual in that it is licensed in one of the top fifty radio markets and is one of only two or three major radio market with a LPFM producing local material.
Contact us.
WCRX-LP Editorial Collective
Bexley Public Radio Foundation operating as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Blog http://agentofcurrency.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Bexley, Ohio. LPFM and mutual radio organizations.
The Editorial Collective of WCRX-LP is sometimes amazed at the creativity of the WCRX-LP staff. Staff author L F offered the following grant proposal to blogpac.com.
The proposal was rejected.
Does anyone know who blog.pac might be?
We still commend author L F for her creativity and recognize her commitment to WCRX-LP for submitting the proposal. L F's sister is in town this week on a late summer visit. The sister's name is Dotty. She probably doesn't know who blogpac is although L F's family is always a surprise.
Funding sources. Tell us if you are interested in this concept.
Proposal by:
Author L F
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
Bexley Public Radio Foundation
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Name of project:
Community radio mutual network
Description of idea:
Organized network of community radio stations that can collect, organize and broadcast grassroots opinion surveys regularly.
Background:
WCRX-LP is a community radio station and has been broadcasting since March 21, 2007. It is an LPFM (low power FM) station.
There are approximately 800 other LPFM stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
A significant number of these stations are progressive in their points of view.
There is no organizing effort among LPFM stations to cross cultivate ideas, survey progressive opinion in the communities these radio stations serve.
In the approaching presidential and other federal elections, a network
Prometheus Project, Common Frequency, National Association of Community Broadcasters and Pacifica Foundation sometimes will survey members and other radio stations. None of them is set up to survey opinion of progressive communities on a regular basis.
Mutual is used in the title as a reminder that cooperative principals will be important for the networks success.
Money and resources needed:
Total budget $9,160.
Request to BLOGPAC. $5,000.
Resources needed:
Volunteer statisticians
Volunteer project director
Two paid research assistants
Office and equipment shared with a consumer publication
Telephone and internet connection shared with a consumer publication
Plan for raising and spending money and using resources:
This is a twelve month project.
Three months staff time will be used to develop an accurate list of LPFM radio stations and categorize the stations according to the communities they serve.
One month of staff time will be used to develop sample opinion survey instruments, project publicity and network contracts. These materials will be distributed to the LPFM stations with follow up contacts and conference calls.
Three months of staff time will be used to establish the network. Email lists and record systems will be a large clerical task. Those LPFM radio stations that are interested in participating in the network will be offered network contracts. An attorney will be used to draft the network contracts.
An important feature will be regular communications among the LPFM program directors so that local developments can be shared with the network members. This sharing will help to identify national issues based on local experiences. This sharing will also help to form the issues for opinion surveys.
The final five months of the first year will be used to survey and report opinions on topics that the community radio stations have selected.
WCRX-LP expects to raise $3,000 to support wages for two research assistants from existing contributors. Additional fund-raising will have to be implemented to raise additional funds.
Paid staff part-time. $12,000.
Office and equipment shared with a consumer publication. $250 per month.
Supplies. $200 per month.
Telephone and internet connection shared with a consumer publication. Base is split fifty-fifty with consumer publication. Long distance is reimbursed as actual charges. $80 per month.
Professional services and insurance. $1,800.
Administrative. $1,000.
The important part of this project is that volunteers trained in statistics or public opinion survey techniques be used to create survey instruments and analyze the data.
Progressive infrastructure created by project:
The project will create a network of community radio stations that can survey the opinions of progressive communities throughout the U.S. and also broadcast the survey results.
Contact us.
WCRX-LP Editorial Collective
Bexley Public Radio Foundation operating as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Blog http://agentofcurrency.blogspot.com
The proposal was rejected.
Does anyone know who blog.pac might be?
We still commend author L F for her creativity and recognize her commitment to WCRX-LP for submitting the proposal. L F's sister is in town this week on a late summer visit. The sister's name is Dotty. She probably doesn't know who blogpac is although L F's family is always a surprise.
Funding sources. Tell us if you are interested in this concept.
Proposal by:
Author L F
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
Bexley Public Radio Foundation
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Name of project:
Community radio mutual network
Description of idea:
Organized network of community radio stations that can collect, organize and broadcast grassroots opinion surveys regularly.
Background:
WCRX-LP is a community radio station and has been broadcasting since March 21, 2007. It is an LPFM (low power FM) station.
There are approximately 800 other LPFM stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
A significant number of these stations are progressive in their points of view.
There is no organizing effort among LPFM stations to cross cultivate ideas, survey progressive opinion in the communities these radio stations serve.
In the approaching presidential and other federal elections, a network
Prometheus Project, Common Frequency, National Association of Community Broadcasters and Pacifica Foundation sometimes will survey members and other radio stations. None of them is set up to survey opinion of progressive communities on a regular basis.
Mutual is used in the title as a reminder that cooperative principals will be important for the networks success.
Money and resources needed:
Total budget $9,160.
Request to BLOGPAC. $5,000.
Resources needed:
Volunteer statisticians
Volunteer project director
Two paid research assistants
Office and equipment shared with a consumer publication
Telephone and internet connection shared with a consumer publication
Plan for raising and spending money and using resources:
This is a twelve month project.
Three months staff time will be used to develop an accurate list of LPFM radio stations and categorize the stations according to the communities they serve.
One month of staff time will be used to develop sample opinion survey instruments, project publicity and network contracts. These materials will be distributed to the LPFM stations with follow up contacts and conference calls.
Three months of staff time will be used to establish the network. Email lists and record systems will be a large clerical task. Those LPFM radio stations that are interested in participating in the network will be offered network contracts. An attorney will be used to draft the network contracts.
An important feature will be regular communications among the LPFM program directors so that local developments can be shared with the network members. This sharing will help to identify national issues based on local experiences. This sharing will also help to form the issues for opinion surveys.
The final five months of the first year will be used to survey and report opinions on topics that the community radio stations have selected.
WCRX-LP expects to raise $3,000 to support wages for two research assistants from existing contributors. Additional fund-raising will have to be implemented to raise additional funds.
Paid staff part-time. $12,000.
Office and equipment shared with a consumer publication. $250 per month.
Supplies. $200 per month.
Telephone and internet connection shared with a consumer publication. Base is split fifty-fifty with consumer publication. Long distance is reimbursed as actual charges. $80 per month.
Professional services and insurance. $1,800.
Administrative. $1,000.
The important part of this project is that volunteers trained in statistics or public opinion survey techniques be used to create survey instruments and analyze the data.
Progressive infrastructure created by project:
The project will create a network of community radio stations that can survey the opinions of progressive communities throughout the U.S. and also broadcast the survey results.
Contact us.
WCRX-LP Editorial Collective
Bexley Public Radio Foundation operating as
WCRX-LP, 102.1 FM, Local Power Radio
2700 E. Main St., Suite 208
Columbus, OH 43209
Voice (614) 235 2929
Fax (614) 235 3008
Email wcrxlp@yahoo.com
Blog http://agentofcurrency.blogspot.com
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