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Local Media Networks: Empowering Communities Through Low-Power FM Stations

Explore the impact of low-power FM stations on community empowerment and resilience. Learn how these local broadcasters serve as organizing hubs and vital communication channels during crises. Discover the fight to protect and expand small-scale radio networks globally, from the Gulf Coast to Jordan. Who truly owns the information disseminated through these grassroots platforms? The people do. Join the conversation on the evolving landscape of media ownership and access.

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Local Media Networks: Empowering Communities Through Low-Power FM Stations

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  1. WHO OWNS THE INFORMATION?

  2. EGYPT, JANUARY 27, 2011

  3. Internet and social media communications have been shut down during recent protests: Egypt, Iran, Libya.

  4. Natural disasters can also shut down radio, TV, and high-tech media networks.

  5. WQRZ LPFM, SEPT 2005 Of the 42 radio stations along the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina, only 4 stayed live during the storm or its aftermath. 2 were small local stations. Sources: WQRZ, Houston Chronicle

  6. What does a local media network look like? Local radio advocates put up an antenna for a new small-scale station, Florida, USA

  7. In the US there are about 850 small-scale “Low-Power” FM stations, and advocates have fought hard to protect them.

  8. Large-Scale Commercial Broadcasters

  9. Low-Power Local Broadcasters

  10. LP-FM stations are gathering-places and organizing-places in their communities. WGXC-FM studio, Hudson, NY

  11. But US government policies have kept them out of urban centers.

  12. In Jordan, the situation is similar. Small-scale local broadcasters are becoming a possibility.

  13. 31Commercial Broadcasters, Jordan

  14. 4 Local or Community-run Stations, Jordan

  15. Farah Al-Nas 98.5 FM in East Amman teaches youth technical skills and gives them a voice.

  16. Who owns the information?

  17. We do.

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