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Update on Our Progress to Community-powered
Radio So, what happened with the FCC filing window and where are we now? First, thank you all so much for your amazing and generous response to our call for pledges! Your wonderful response enabled us to go into the filing process with strong applications that will be competitive from the community and technical criteria the FCC uses in granting broadcast licenses. We filed 4 applications for a full-powered radio station. Nationwide, applications for licenses during the application filing window was so great that it apparently brought down the FCC's electronic filing database - more than 3600 applications were filed in all, 102 in New York State. Because of the volume of applications, the FCC has been very slow to post results and is deviating from their usual past procedures. Nonetheless, this week we learned of encouraging news -- one of our applications did not have any competition and so it is moving through the bureaucratic hurdles toward approval. We are very, very lucky! Only ten percent of the applications were in this category of "singletons", that is, applications for frequencies that are not being sought after by multiple entities and thus are not currently being challenged. The other 90 percent of
applications are caught in a massive tangle of overlapping frequencies
and coverages
and the FCC has left it to the applicants to analyze who's interfering
with whom. Our engineers are analyzing the situation, something they
didn't expect to have to do because in the past, the FCC did this as
part of the application process. UPCOMING BENEFITS Many kind
folks from our community have come forward to organize benefits for
ICR. This Friday,
11/23, at 9 PM
there will be a benefit concert featuring Crow
Greenspun, The
Settlers and DJ Bob, sponsored by Tuff Soul at Castaways, 413 Taughannock
Blvd, Ithaca (607) 272-1370 -- tickets are $8 for
info
see this page Saturday Dec,
22, from 10 am -- 3 pm at Ithaca Farmers' Market Watch this space, and listen to the radio, for announcements for an ICR open house/party next month.
As part of our application process to the FCC we had to provide a description of our educational mission, as we are applying for the NCE license (non-commercial educational). Below is what we submitted, and we wanted to share it with you because it encapsulates what we're working to accomplish. We hope you will consider getting involved, as the real work, and fun, is about to begin. ICR’s educational objective is to make a significant contribution to the life-long process of education necessary for effective civic engagement. The proposed station will advance this goal by providing a news and information service that goes beyond conventional headlines and explores important social and political issues in depth. Programs will draw on recent academic research into the historical antecedents of such issues to provide critical perspectives on these issues under-represented in existing local media. ICR will serve the public interest of the diverse communities of the Ithaca area through in-depth news and cultural programming and by providing free training in the art and craft of radio broadcasting to local area youth and adults. Such training is integral to ICR’s goal of enabling listeners to become active media-makers and citizen journalists. ICR will further the creative skills and cultural
literacy of the community, by airing the productions of, and news
about, the work of local artists, writers, dramatists and musicians. By
presenting programs to educate local communities on the cultures of the
diverse groups that comprise the human family, ICR strives to increase
the understanding and appreciation of human culture beyond what is
familiar.
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