By Bill Virgin in the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
"Low-power FM stations are what the name suggests — limited-range, non-commercial broadcasters. LPFM was opposed by established broadcasters who said the dial was too crowded to accommodate new stations that likely would interfere with their own signals. LPFM advocates say the existing broadcasters simply didn't want the competition and that they'll provide the local content most radio stations have given up.The Federal Communications Commission Web site lists just two applications granted in Washington state for low-power FM stations, in Spokane and Kettle Falls. Another 18 construction permits have been approved, for locales such as Coupeville, Olympia, Morton and Aberdeen. Still more are pending.
Slowly but surely, though, more LPFM operations are making it to the air. One that hopes to do so in the first two months of 2005 is KMRE-LP (102.3), to be operated by Bellingham's American Museum of Radio and Electricity."
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