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Community Radio, Pirate Radio, and LPFM

Quinn filed several petitions for rulemaking. Many of them came to pass. He started a commercial FM radio station in Indianapolis called WKLU. He called himself Bruce the Radio Pirate on the air.
 
The problem with this is you have to assume all applicants think the way Quinn did, and what we've learned in the years following the LPFM law is that most people don't. They don't start radio stations as a community service, but there are other agendas, from religious mission to personal taste in music. Then you have the whole "business" side of this. Keep in mind that in the early days of broadcasting, radio was under the commerce department. Radio was regulated because it was a business. That was the point of the FRC and then the FCC. At the time, there were amateurs and professionals using the AM spectrum, and the FRC moved the amateurs to their own band. So Quinn is coming into this in the years after public broadcasting and other developments. Having LPFMs share the exact same band as professionals gives the LPFMs a form of credibility that changes the entire landscape. That's what the NAB and other groups were trying to point out.
 
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