RADIO PIRATES.Washington, D.C. In early October, hundreds of microradio activists (small, unlicensed radio operators) marched on the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. and the National Association of Broadcasters to protest the ban on community access to radio airwaves. The activists also sent a team up to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress. In the past two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Federal Communications Commission, under pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters, has intensified its crackdown on low-power broadcasting Low-power broadcasting is the concept of broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area. These stations tend to serve small towns, or communities within large cities in the United States. . Microbroadcasters at Dupont Circle Dupont Circle is a traffic circle in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Connecticut Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, P Street and 19th Street. constructed huge puppets, including this Pinocchio caricature of Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kenard, which is operated by a large TV-head monster puppet representing the National Association of Broadcasters, which is in turn controlled by a larger monster puppet representing the corporate media monolith. For more information, see the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Free Media Alliance web site at http://artcon.rutgers.edu/ papaertiger/nyfma. |
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