Awesome, informative, looong article about how the passage of the Local Community Radio Act could encourage community engagement/musical diversity via low-power FM stations. I’m usually not that wonkish about these things, but maaaan, radio today sucks, unless you want to hear an endless stream of Katy Perry singles - often the same Katy Perry singles, played simultaneously on separate stations, a fact that you discover as you helplessly twirl the dial in the search of more stimulating sounds.* If, as this article suggests, an LPFM renaissance could improve the overall quality/diversity of what’s on our airwaves, then WOOOOO! Chicago’s always-awesome CHIRP radio, which I stream at work all day, every day, also gets a mention here as a LPFM wannabe, which is great.
*There are also many times an endless stream of Katy Perry singles is your life-saving IV of pure musical pleasure, and you search for “Teenage Dream” on purpose, frantically twirling the dial for your fix. But that’s another story.
