[Imc] Fwd: LPFM; One Last Ditch Effort, while on 'net discussion areas, leave this message

[Paul Riismandel]

>From: WRFR at aol.com
>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:37:00 EDT
>Subject: LPFM; One Last Ditch Effort, while on 'net discussion areas, 
>leave this message
>To: FM4USA at aol.com
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>
>Dear LPFM supporters,
>
>Well, We found out Friday NIGHT that negotiations for the LPFM bill were
>supposedly happening this weekend ... but then Clinton scheduled a visit to
>the Middle East.
>
>The fax numbers I had for Office of Management and Budget (that is key in the
>negotiations for the appropriations bills that carry the LPFM-Killer Rider)
>and for Clinton's office are just not working. I don't know if they don't
>fill up the paper on the weekend, take them off the hook or what. But we have
>been unable to fax support letters.
>
>We are attempting a Sunday hand-delivery to the White House.
>
>The voice message phone number has no answering machine, it just says call
>back during the week.
>
>However, with the Middle East possibly slowing things down and Email appears
>to be still working ... THUS we created another web site specifically for
>this last-ditch attempt to support LPFM ....
>
>If you have time Sunday, Monday ... until we hear in the news that the game
>is over and we either won (Senate Adjourned with no harm done to LPFM,
>expected Wednesday) ... or an appropriations bill with a LPFM-killer rider
>attached has just been signed by the President ...
>
>Until then, anytime you are in a discussion area where the message will be
>seen by the public.
>
>You can help tremendously.
>
>You can help us by:
>
>1) Making your "email signature" something like
>
>Sincerely, _________ __________
>---------------------------------------------------
>NPR Kicks Thousands of Church
>And Educational LPFM radio
>stations off the air!
>http://www.radiocitizen.com
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>
>2) You could also visit such areas and just (if you think appropriate) past
>some or all of the following message:
>
>---------------------------------------------
>NPR KICKING THOUSANDS OF LPFM COMMUNITY & CHURCH STATIONS
>OFF THE AIR, Misrepresents Local Affiliates
>
>Tell Your local NPR affiliate you'll fulfill your pledge when
>they denounce the Rogue NPR President Kevin Klose!
>
>NPR President Kevin Klose never asked the stations that he
>supposedly represents if they want him to oppose Low Power FM !!
>
>At the NPR board meeting last month, several NPR affiliates
>testified that they supported LPFM and were never asked by Klose.
>Michael Brasher, manager of NPR affiliate KANW, Albuquerque NM said,
>     "I felt a little like a citizen might feel if he woke
>      up one morning to find that a new president had been
>      elected, but nobody told him there was an election.
>      Frankly, I really doubt that the position taken ...
>      represents the true feelings of the men and women who
>      work in National Public Radio and in our stations.!"
>
>-----------------------------
>Tell your NPR affiliate that you will pledge when they
>publicly denounce NPR national president Kevin Klose's
>continued attack on LPFM church and educational civic
>radio stations.
>
>Tell the president and Senators what you think of NPR
>kicking thousands of churches and educational groups off the air!
>
>President at whitehouse.gov
>202-456-1414 Voice
>202-456-2461 Fax
>
>http://www.radiocitizen.com
>
>--------------------------------
>
>
>PS: More Info:
>  Techno-Babble, how they sneak your rights away
>
>National Public Radio (NPR) President Kevin Klose supports
>the US Senate bill, "Broadcast Preservation Act of 2000" (SB3020)
>that would ban most Low Power FM (LPFM) radio station applications.
>
>The LPFM rules create new slots on the FM dial for tiny
>under-100watt church and civic association stations by
>letting our tiny stations use "third adjacent frequencies"
>JUST like hundreds of existing hugely powerful stations
>like 100,000 watt Classical music WCPE use to squeeze
>onto congested dials.
>
>"Broadcast Preservation" would deny us the use of the same
>"third adjacent frequencies" rules WCPE enjoys.
>
>The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and NPR claim
>that if we are allowed to compete by doing the same thing
>their "Short Spaced" stations have done for decades at a
>fraction of their power ... there will be massive interference.
>
>Ironically the NAB themselves convinced the FCC in 1996 that
>their "Short Spaced" stations are not a problem, and they
>are not being taken off the air by the "Broadcast Preservation Act"
>that NPR President Kevin Klose supports.
>
>More Info:
>http://www.radiocitizen.com