Low-Power Radio Lives!

Jesse Walker | October 9, 2009

The Local Community Radio Act, a bill to loosen the restrictions on low-power broadcasters, passed out of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet yesterday. This is one deregulatory measure that has more support among Democrats than Republicans, so with the Dems in charge in Washington it might actually become law.

Elsewhere in Reason: I gave the lowdown on this legislation in 2007, and I wrote about the pros and cons of the Democrats' views on broadcast regulation last year.