People connect to the world around them in more ways than ever before. Although the world has changed dramatically since the days when people gathered around their radio to listen to the nightly news, ...

My first dabbling in low-power “broadcasting” occurred in childhood. A Radio Shack P-Box kit, namely a wireless AM microphone, was the start. The study of electronics and my work at a community radio ...

Hundreds of applications available for nonprofits after year-long policy review From the Winter 2001 issue of The News Media &… Hundreds of applications available for nonprofits after year-long policy ...

Listeners to the community radio station WCRS-LP can wake up on Saturday mornings with a bang: five hours of Latino music with DJ Supermex. Later, there's an hour of indigenous music, followed by ...

A few miles and a world away from my house was KDIF 102.9 FM, a low-power FM station in South Phoenix. My drive to the station took me from the prosperous and developing parts of Phoenix to the ...

The FCC’s proposal of a new formula to determine which radio stations can use the highest allowable power levels for their HD Radio FM stations excludes one type of station from doing so: superpowered ...

A growing number of independent community stations are rising up to serve local audiences at a time when the larger, corporate-owned stations are airing the same content shared among numerous stations ...

Community activists in Seattle have been working to create low-power FM radio stations for the past two years, and success is in sight: Seven local stations now have Federal Communications ...

After almost 50 years in deep space, NASA's Voyager probes have more than their fair share of glitches. Still, it's worth it to keep these spacecraft operational—they are the only eyes we have outside ...

I lost power the night the 2024 Eaton Fire started in Los Angeles, California. Since I live nearby, I kept checking my phone to find out if, or when, I needed to evacuate. I was receiving concerned ...