[news.groups] CALL FOR VOTE: rec.radio.noncomm

dsrekrg%prism@gatech.edu (Rob Gibson) (02/14/90)

This is the CALL FOR VOTES for the creation of a new newsgroup
to provide a forum for the discussion of noncommercial radio
among broadcasters and listeners.

Vote by replying to this article.  Votes must be clearly stated
as for or against rec.radio.noncomm as described in this article.

Votes will be accepted until March 13, 1990.

NAME:    rec.radio.noncomm
CHARTER: unmoderated discussion of noncommercial radio.
Some topics to discuss are:
- listener opinion
- noncommercial AM/FM radio of the college, community, and NPR variety
- carrier current and cable based radio
- do trade journals manipulate or aid?
- upcoming conventions such as the Nat'l Assoc. of Broadcasters/BEA
  meeting in Atlanta and the Intercollegiate Broadcasters Society in NY
- the newly released "Public Radio in the 1990s" report by The Public
  Radio Expansion Task Force
- the FCC and its regulations
- obtaining and managing non-commercial grants
- programming sources

Rob Gibson, General Manager, WREK 91.1 MHz
Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332             404/894-2468
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