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Commenters describe how low power radio stations would serve their communities.

"[LPFM] can be very beneficial to communities which are currently underserved or not being served at all. As an inner city church in a very diverse community, we would be able to reach out to persons who are in need. This has more to do with community activities than religion, though that is obviously an integral part of our mission."

- Comments of Immanuel Presbyterian Church

 

"A low powered radio station can serve as a learning tool for our school, develop possible career interests, and serve our community. The development of closer school and community ties is a desire sought by all schools. Low power radio could achieve this goal."

- Comments of Brookland High School

 

"[A] full time radio station licensed by the FCC would ensure stability in an otherwise fragmented community.…The impoverished Haitian farm-working community is in desperate need of organization and stability. Without a media outlet to rely on, that community continues to sustain itself by word of mouth communication that is highly ineffective."

- Reply Comments of Mondellus Pressa and Haitian Community Radio

 

"In addition to the music and information programming, [a low power] radio station holds the potential to be a vehicle to build up our community following the difficult circumstances which we experienced in recent years, such as the riots in 1991. This station could also be a forum for reaching the elderly to inform them about important safety tips, as well as a forum for children’s programming."

- Comments of Crown Heights Jewish Community Center

 

"[A low power radio license] would give us the ability to reach our entire student body and a small section of the community…. [Our internal station has] exceptional programming for a high school and a cooperative relationship with one of the largest FM rock stations in Portland. Century Radio could be an asset to the community. We have a Latino radio program engineered and hosted by two Mexican students. Our school radio and TV station effectively brings a diverse student body together."

- Comments of Century High School

 

"LPFM will provide a low-cost means of serving urban communities and neighborhoods around the United States, and it will go a long way toward addressing the unmet needs for community-oriented radio broadcasting…. In the Village of Harlem in New York County, where Abyssinian has served its community for many generations, LPFM has the potential to unlock the sometimes latent, but always vibrant, creativity and spectacular talent of the people of Harlem. LPFM can help to unite our local residents, while ensuring that their collective needs and concerns are addressed."

- Comments of Abyssinian Baptist Church

"[T]he new low power radio service proposed will offer superior and more dependable communication between the travel corridor user and the provider, and will complement those currently offered on the AM band."

- Comments of the Texas Department of Transportation

 

"Our goal is to have the opportunity to provide Mendon with a source for positive, uplifting music and radio programming, as well as public service messages and community information. The possibility that communities and schools across the country could provide such on-air resources is an exciting development in the world of radio!"

- Comments of Mendon Presbyterian Church Members

 

"In the hands of community-service organizations, we believe that these frequencies can play a vital role in distributing information to clients who often are too young, too old, too handicapped or too feeble to react properly to mailed or phoned information…. Studies indicate that this population, along with the general population, has easy access to fm receivers. In the hands of operators such as schools, welfare organizations, The Society For the Blind, Family Service agencies and etc the valuable spectrum would be devoted to its highest public service use."

- Comments of the Jewish Community Federal of Cleveland, Ohio


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