New Communities from Old Radios 3 of 4  Community Radio Applications that IowaFM has followed since 2007 await FCC - Modification Approval before taking to live-air. This newsletter offers the opportunity for you to roll up your sleeves and help this effort along, let us know your thoughts and skills or dig into new issues of regulatory policy that lead to expanding the airwaves of Iowa Cities with a Low-Power community Radio Service. IowaFM by proximity encourages community support for KUBU -New Bohemia's 88.7 Coggon KUBU is the new name of the Construction Permit issued on February 10th by the FCC to the New Bohemia Group of Cedar Rapids. The granting of this permit allows New Bohemia to begin building out their plan for a new FM station 88.7 Coggon application that was submitted in 2007. The CP expires on February 10, 2012: so the clock is ticking to get KUBU on the Air. A full update of the KUBU Construction Plan will be given at IowaFM's 1st Annual Meeting by New Bohemia's FCC Administrative Engineer. Analog Television in our region experienced the final shut-off of services for KWQC-Channel 6 formerly known as WOC- from Davenport went into effect on June 12th, 2009. We now enter an age of digital technologies that hopefully ignites the possibilities of a more of a READ-WRITE culture to emerge from the bandwidth. IowaFM did a search in 5 metro areas where digital operations moved to a new site and analog operations were soon no longer in needing the use of their broadcast towers and actively seeking a large (and by that we mean 748 feet) donation to this fledgling layer of media Iowa Community Radio. The Need For New Economic Models In Public Media. Assumption remains that corporate media has primary responsibility to serve their shareholders -- that assumption does more damage than good. Like any good corporation, media corporations are designed to increase shareholder profits 30% annually. If we truly want a media system that provides for the public interest, convenience & necessity, we need to start looking at alternatives. Link to Tony Shawcross, MediaShift Idea Lab http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=yIbgheibZSeoajoPD_J2xQ.. The Road To LPFM Victory Live from the Allied Media Conference We are thrilled to report that the Communications, Technology and Internet Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee holding hearings on HR 1147, the Local Community Radio Act. This is a thrilling and critical step toward passage of the Local Community Radio Act, legislation that Hoover Studio, Prometheus Radio, Common Frequency, and IowaFM have been working with for a number of years. With the passage of HR 1147, there will be space on the dial for hundreds, potentially thousands more non-commercial Low Power FM radio stations. We hope to soon be back to the work of building more FM stations in Iowa communities. local LPFM voices for the airwaves in Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Dubuque, Davenport, West Liberty and Iowa City look good! The New Bohemia Radio Project: IowaFM is a small non-profit among many well-funded media giants; we count on our allies and friends to support our work to build a community network of LPFM radio stations, to empower Iowa voices through participatory media, and support for social change. Please consider making a donation, on the occasion of this exciting milestone! Motions Saved by DC Circuit Court Ruling LPFM Stations Saved by DC Circuit Court Ruling In an important victory for low power radio, an appeals court ruled in favor of the FCC's right to protect LPFMs from encroachment by full power stations. The DC Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit, filed by the National Association of Broadcasters, that sought to prevent the FCC in protecting low power stations from interference. Closing Loopholes for Rural Radio In an exciting Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the FCC has finally recognized the systematic abuse of its policies by large corporations and has proposed changes that will protect small rural community stations. IowaFM would like to hear from membership with ideas on these events. Will the New Rules really solve the problems that have finally been recognized, or will these proposed changes simply create similar loopholes that will continue to be exploited in the name of localism? Supporting Artists at a Cost- IowaFM funding for mainstream music So, who exactly gets paid when you hear Patsy Cline singing "Crazy" on the radio? It's not who you think—with the current laws on the books, the songwriter, Willie Nelson in this case, and his publisher are compensated, while the estate of Patsy Cline receives no pay for the performance. The Performance Rights Act would correct this weird state of affairs by requiring radio stations to pay a fee to compensate performers for the use of their music over the air. Reading to why there may be a cause for performance fees ASCAPP/BMI, and then let us know what you think. Do you support this bill? Could find consensus to be fair for performers, but also fair to small low power stations? waFM.org incorporates as Non-Profit with language of 501c(3) status The proper name of IowaFM.org is now IowaFM, Inc. Our mission is still the same, we are now eligible for grants and may offer tax-deductible incentives for donations. New community with old radios. IowaFM 1st Annual Meeting Saturday June 20 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ICPL- A Hope to see you thereIowaFM has sibling application stations in progress. MidWest Media is a yahoo group started in Chicago with Ursula from Ames to workshop, like a class that met on Wednesdays at 3P.M. On what is required to submit a successful FCC full-Power radio application. So for the last few years we meet weekly by web-conference on all topics related to building a sustainable FM-Radio service. To the credits of all the applicants who helped raise KUBU's Eastern Iowa standard and are in the final group from 2007 to be decided include: Iowa Lakes Community College, FlintRadio, RadioBoston, Tampa Community Radio, Norman, OK. These partnerships with our fellow applicant agricultural affiliate Community Radio stations KWVR-Murray & KHOI, Ames, IA., WAZU, Peoria, IL., WDRT, Viroqua,WI., & KZGM, Cabool, MO. It is good fortune for the Radio Project to be associated with MWM.