IP: Big radio bites back! I love the misspelling in the last line

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2000/10/16/lpfm/index.html

Big radio bites back!
Major broadcasting companies and NPR are ganging up on low-power FM radio. 
Can John McCain save the day?
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By Eric Boehlert

Oct. 16, 2000 | This is the story of how big broadcasting is trying to kill 
the low-power radio star.
To most ears, low-power radio -- 10- or 100-watt stations with a broadcast 
range of a few square miles at most -- sounds like a cheap, easy and 
democratic way of giving communities a small but potent voice on the dial.

But now, 21 months after the Federal Communications Commission first 
proposed creating a new brand of low-power FM radio stations, the 
initiative is fighting for its life.
It's being smothered at the request of broadcasters during a last-minute 
closed-door horse-trading session on Capitol Hill.
And holding the pillow on the patient's head is a surprising pair: the 
powerful National Association of Broadcasters -- and noncommercial National 
Pubic Radio.