Community radio is more important than ever.
A message from Ranger Rita, Project Director of The North Texas Music Foundation:
Early this year, the FCC began to move (did I say "glacially"?) on its plans to again award new nonprofit radio station licenses.
The North Texas Music Foundation has had a qualifying application for a radio station in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on file with the FCC since July 1998. We were the first to file an application for this particular frequency and coverage area, but the FCC rules permit other groups to submit competing applications. Several groups top-filed us, "borrowing" the configuration that Dr. Radio (Gray Haertig), our engineer, had located and mapped for the NTMF.
In April 2000, the FCC imposed a freeze on the filing of new noncommercial stations until it could develop a "point system" for deciding which one of two or more competing applications to grant. Now that the point system has been finalized and tested in court, the FCC is ready to start applying it.
Richardson, Texas
March 2005
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