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Post by jimhenry2000 on Jan 27, 2018 5:07:15 GMT
Many Thanks to Jim HenryThank you Fellow Member for re-posting the mysterious lost petition. What I petition for above all at this time is that you (Jim) recover your precious health and can once again resume the duties of an Acting Lord. All day I searched the web hoping to find a clue to what is this "localism" that you wish to nip with everyone's help petitionally speaking. By now I gather it must be a different form of localism than the long-standing requirement of serving the local community, but what else could it be? No rush. Radio is a patient game. Carl, thanks. It was a re-visit of what nearly killed me back in November, but I'm doing much better now! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 15:31:01 GMT
Last Question
Where did the Petition come from?
What website did you get it from?
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Post by jimhenry2000 on Jan 28, 2018 2:54:31 GMT
Last QuestionWhere did the Petition come from? What website did you get it from? I received an email from the president/CEO of Radio America. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 14:49:22 GMT
2nd Last Question
Jim Henry partially explained the source of the Petition: "I received an email from the president/CEO of Radio America."
Will you please post the Message from the CEO explaining (in his words) what the Petition is all about?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 23:20:22 GMT
Low power radio is all about serving the local community.
Localism was introduced by the FCC to encourage community involvement in radio, while at the same time discouraging big business and homogeneous programming. One of its goals was to encourage diversity, including the service of marginalized and/or minority audiences.
This kind of petition has no place on a Forum dedicated to low power radio. Particularly one that is associated with a group that is focused on providing programming assistance (of the 'localized' type), and that has specifically stated that it is not interested in politics and activism.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 23:40:56 GMT
This Has Been a Wake Up Splash in the Face For Me
Yes, DavidC, that is what I think as well, but this thread has opened up a string of questions in my mind about what's been said and not said in this push for "petition".
For example I have yet to grasp an FCC "scheme" when it was later said that it is a"future FCC, not the current one, which might enact this "rule" "hidden deep in the rulebook". That would make it a future possibility but saying "scheme" seems far fetched.
Having carefully read the article linked by Druid Hills describing Obama's attempt 10-years ago to establish a "localism requirement" it does not say that such a rule was ever put into place.
If this illusive rule does actually exist, what is FCC Regulation Part No. and Section Number where the rule can finally be seen?
Brushing past the subject of "conservative talk radio", Jim Henry has declared that it is the most popular form of talk radio, and to that I say: You can thank good P.R.; Being the only talk radio due to corporate control, there is no honest comparison.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 1:38:25 GMT
A bit of history. www.fcc.gov/general/localism-proceedingsTo me, this petition seems akin to the net neutrality (not) push that the current FCC held. They want radio (along with the Internet) to be subject to corporations and big business, as opposed to the people (in communities). After all, you never know just who is in those communities, who they voted for, and they're so gosh-darned difficult to control. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 4:17:23 GMT
With Localism Gone
The airwaves would become the Voice of Nationalism.
In our case today Nationalism is a belief that citizenship in a state should be limited to one ethnic, cultural, religious, or identity group. - (taken in part from Wikipedia)
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Post by jimhenry2000 on Jan 29, 2018 5:58:44 GMT
2nd Last QuestionJim Henry partially explained the source of the Petition: " I received an email from the president/CEO of Radio America." Will you please post the Message from the CEO explaining (in his words) what the Petition is all about? Carl, I no longer have the email. It arrived in my spam folder because it was from radioamerica.org, and my dealings have been with radioamerica.COM. A check of their websites shows them to appear identical but my Spamarrest software was only familiar with the dot com version thus it went to my Unverified folder. Since i did not authorize the email before i responded and then deleted it, the email is unrecoverable and I cannot provide the text of it. However the argument was logical thus I responded and signed the petition with no regrets. I may be mistaken but I believe the CEO identified himself as James Roberts, but that is just from memory. Hope this helps. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 6:04:46 GMT
Thank You Jim
Alright, perhaps we've gone as far as the trail leads.
I still would like to find the hidden rule in the FCC rulebook that Radio America was talking about.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 15:28:49 GMT
Unfinished Business
It remains impossible for ALPB members to understand what this petition asks because we have not been told where to find the ""hidden FCC Localism" rule".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 17:09:03 GMT
Business Incomplete
Repeating...
It remains impossible for ALPB members to understand what this petition asks because we have not been told where to find the ""hidden FCC Localism" rule"
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