Doyle questions FCC and NAB witnesses about low-power FM radio interference with full-power stations

[yoeler1]

I want my LowPower Radio Station!!!!!!!, not my MTV!!!

[MrBuster77]

Get the FCC going on lpfm We need it at our Veterans Home

[RadioChriss]

It's not a double standard. Doyle is over simplifying the process.

Look at it this way: Put 100 people (full-power stations) in a room talking at full voice. Add 15 more talking in a whisper (translators). The 15 won't affect the 100 very much. Now add 200 more people (LPFMs) talking in a whisper. That's the kind of interference we're talking about.

This is not a political issue. There's real science involved.

[UrinationNation]

Considering both LPFMs and full power stations have the same requirements to run weather and other such warnings, I don't really see much of a problem even if in certain locations there might be some static of the full power station. I personally no longer listen to full power stations because in my town all of them are owned by Cumulus and because of that I can go from station to station and hear the same things, I'd like to have a real choice and adding a few LPFMs would help diversify.

[cherryblossom1979]

Brilliant! Rep Doyle calls the NAB out on their double-standards!