[1st-mile-nm] Low-Power FM Radio in Albuquerque

[Richard Lowenberg]

Locally created community media, in all its forms, is critical
to the well-being of our networked local-global lives.
Here's a 'snip' from a longer recent posting.
RL

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Amid Media Megamergers, a Mosaic of Community Media Thrives
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan,  Apr 28 2016 
<http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/amid_media_megamergers_a_mosaic_of_community_media_thrives_20160428>

(snip)

Take, for example, the new low-power FM (LPFM) radio station that is 
being built in Albuquerque, New Mexico. LPFM is a noncommercial radio 
service that recently got a boost from the Federal Communications 
Commission after activists spent years pushing the federal government to 
allow more stations. This new station in Albuquerque is licensed to a 
long-standing media nonprofit called Quote…Unquote, which provides 
training in digital-media creation, to empower people to tell their own 
stories.

To launch the station, they have partnered with the Robert F. Kennedy 
High School, a remarkable school in the South Valley, one of the poorest 
neighborhoods of Albuquerque, with a population of students who are 
largely undocumented immigrants. “We serve students that traditional 
schools have given up on,” Robert Baade, RFK’s director, told us. “The 
radio station will be one more tool for them, to allow them to speak for 
themselves.”


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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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