Editing Low-power broadcasting (section)

=====Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000=====<!-- linked from "National Association of Broadcasters" -->
Pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters urged [[United States Congress|Congress]] to slip the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 into a general spending bill then moving through Congress. President [[Bill Clinton]] signed the bill in December 2000. The bill passed by Congress ([http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp106&sid=cp106nfZjS&refer=&r_n=hr567.106&item=&sel=TOC_12219& H.R.567]) was meant to tighten standards for LPFM stations, making it harder for them to be approved, to protect full-power FM stations through certain provisions:
# The FCC has the ability and jurisdiction to license LPFM stations.<ref>{{cite web|date = 1999|title = H.R. 3439 [106th]: Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000|access-date = February 12, 2008|url = http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h106-3439&tab=summary}}</ref>
# Third adjacent channel interference protections require LPFM stations to be separated by at least 0.6&nbsp;MHz from all other stations, to prevent signal interference.
# Applicants who have engaged in the unlicensed operation of any station cannot receive LPFM licenses.
# The FCC agreed to commission studies on the interference by, and economic impact of, LPFM on full-power stations (the findings, later published in the ''[[MITRE Corporation]] Report'', suggest that third adjacent channel interference protections may not be necessary).<ref>{{cite journal|journal = Radio Magazine|date = March 1, 2004|title = FCC Reports LPFM Interference Findings to Congress|access-date = March 3, 2008|url = http://www.mediaaccess.org/programs/lpfm/RADIOmagazine.pdf|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409100247/http://www.mediaaccess.org/programs/lpfm/RADIOmagazine.pdf|archive-date = April 9, 2008}}</ref>

This act shifted policy making from the FCC to Congress, which was considered an insult against the FCC.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Stavisky, Alan G. |author2=Avery, Robert K. |author3=Vanhala, Helena |year=2001 |title=From class&nbsp;D to LPFM: The high-powered politics of low-power radio |journal=[[Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly]] |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=340–354|doi=10.1177/107769900107800209 |s2cid=144058577 }}</ref>