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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:        NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
April 28, 2000                Steven Adamske at (202) 418-8221


  LOW POWER FM FILING DATE SET FOR FIRST TWELVE JURISDICTIONS
Applications to give voices to various community groups will be accepted 
                     from May 30 to June 5

     Washington, DC  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be
accepting the first round of applications for the new Low Power FM Radio Service
(LPFM) from May 30 to June 5. 

LPFM is a new service established by the Commission on January 20, 2000
designed to serve local communities.  An LPFM station will serve an area with a radius
of approximately 3.5 miles, with a maximum power level of 100 watts. LPFM stations
will be licensed to community-based nonprofit or governmental educational
organizations or institutions or public safety radio entities. 

This new service means that millions of Americans - such as members of
schools, churches, minority groups, public safety agencies, volunteer fire departments
and other local community groups   will now have a voice to serve their local
communities.  

During this first round, applications will be accepted from Alaska, California, the
District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, the Mariana Islands,
Maryland, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Utah.   

This group of states was selected as the first applicant group by a random lottery
held on March 27.  (For more information on the order in which applications will be
accepted and for more information on the new LPRM service in general, consult the
FCC's website at  www.fcc.gov.)


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