Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FCC, however, has exempted IP telephony companies from these access fees, allowing them to charge much lower prices for long-distance service...
...dearth of community broadcasting has spurred a sudden proliferation of microbroadcasters, renegade radio buffs who mount their own low-wattage stations, flouting FCC licensing rules. Between 500 and 1,000 are estimated to be operating nationwide, up from a handful five years ago. Hence, the rebels on the Las Vegas Convention Center sidewalk, whose own three-day counterconvention, dubbed "Fear and Transmitting," took place in a rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against...
...anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted a how-to Website www.radio4all.org) When the FCC sought an injunction against his station (motto: "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over"), a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., turned the agency down on First Amendment grounds. "This is about free speech," says Dunifer, presiding at the guerrilla gathering. "The FCC excludes all but the wealthy from having a voice...
Chatting over vegetarian goodies in the Unitarian meeting room last week were a 25-year-old Mexican American with the radio handle "Bedlam," whose Los Angeles station, Radio Clandestino, broadcasts leftist Chicano fare; Rick Strawcutter, a Fundamentalist pastor from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh...
...invited to a panel discussion taking place across town: FCC officials and industry lawyers drew 150 legit broadcasters with the question, "Pirate Radio Stations: Will They Be Walking the Plank...