KDHX in St. Louis, MO.<\/a> KDHX is one of a few full power not-for-profit community radio stations in the country. It has both paid and volunteer staff, and produces 168 hours per week of music and public affairs programming for its 24-7 broadcast schedule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHow is community radio program different from commercial and public radio (NPR)? What do they do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- remote reporting of events such as town meetings, high school sports, art openings, holiday parades, and music performances\u2014events of interest to local residents that commercial and public radio ignores. Low-power FM stations are small but they make a giant contribution to local community programming.<\/li>\n
- organize \u00a0and air political debates, hold round-table discussions, and provide extended coverage of all sorts of political events and community issues. They also cover local views on national issues. They focus on localism, diversity and public service.<\/li>\n
- broadcast want ads, personals, and public service announcements for the communities they serve. They help connect residents, increase safety, and build a sense of community.<\/li>\n
- serve minority audiences who are rarely served by commercial and public radio. For example, current low power stations serve Native American and Asian communities.<\/li>\n
- broadcast an interesting and diverse selection of music, sometimes highlighting ethnic music or local talent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Some LPFM stations are one-person operations but others boast twenty or more program hosts. They vary in professionalism, but they soon learn on the job. Community members become media personalities, and Local listeners are treated to fresh voices combined with an enthusiasm and knowledge about their local communities.<\/p>\n
Not all programming is local. Some stations rely on nationally syndicated programming from Pacifica Radio or the show Democracy Now!, which are usually ignored by commercial or local public radio.<\/p>\n
If you are interested in applying for a new license and starting a community radio station, you can get more information from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters<\/a> website. \u00a0You can also download a free 110-page handbook titled Get on the Air and Stay There: A guide to building and maintaining a non-commercial educational community radio station. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A free Internet, as we\u2019ve known it, may be slipping away with the FCC\u2019s watered down Net Neutrality ruling and its recent approval of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,77],"tags":[850],"yoast_head":"\n
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