Most mainstream media pundits dismiss the narrowcasting concept, and deride open narrowcast licences, particularly the low-power one-watt FM variety, as not being worth the paper they're written on.

Country music wasn't working for radio station 95.7 FM in San Francisco, so earlier this month, it dumped the format in favor of something new and a little bit harder to hang a name on. Call it ...

THE WORD “broadcasting” connotes serving the widest possible audience. Since the 1920s that is what AM radio was all about. A good example is Baltimore’s WBAL, a 50,000-watt clear-channel powerhouse.

A month ago Brad Smart shared his thoughts to Radioinfo around the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) findings on the low powered open narrowcaster (LPON) Magic 87.6, broadcasting to ...

Radio as it was and might yet be. In the winter of 1985, a radio station in Washington, D.C. introduced me to my first real love. I was a student at Catholic University. One morning, getting dressed ...

These protection radii or “Exclusion Zones” (PDF 74KB) vary in size from 10km up to 160km, and they ban or partially ban the allocation of new LPONs within the area bounded by those circles. However, ...