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NBC Nightly News Runs Rare Story On A Local Radio Station
Their kicker piece on Thursday was about a low power local school radio station in a remote place called Ontonagon, Michigan that was being forced to give up its frequency to make way for a commercial outlet. It's so tiny, that it only broadcasts its 10-watt signal during the weekdays and is off the air on Saturdays and Sundays.
But the town of just 1,300 depends on its small broadcaster and didn't want to see it go silent. So they rallied to save WOAS-FM. You can watch the extended video at the link below.
Michigan community saves school radio station that has been on-air since 1978
WOAS-FM website
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Great story!
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Turns out the station forcing them off the air is a religious broadcaster with a plethora of retransmitters. Doesn't sound very charitable of them. It's a bit different than what we saw in the NBC report.
"They said, 'By the way, our consultant sent us a list of all these frequencies available for you that you can look at.' I said, 'OK, then why are you taking 88.5? Why, when you sent me all the other frequencies that are available, why that one?'"
The answer he got from WHWL was... "Our consultant says that's the best one for us."
High School Radio Bullied Off The Air By Religious Broadcaster
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Interesting story. I have friends not far from that village.
To get to the WOAS-FM.org website, you'll need to set your VPN to a US address.