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Plymouth Gathering, the licensee for LPFM station KELS-LP in Greeley, Colorado (Pirate 104.7), is being accused of airing over 1,600 ads over 3 months in 2018. LPFM's are allowed to mention contributors but they are not allowed to run full-blown commercials.

It was 499% above its allowed 10-watt output, according to an FCC notice of violation. The Commission also wrote up Iglesia Pentecostal Casa De Dios Para Las Naciones, owner of LPFM KCGG-LP, for not logging EAS tests. Read the notice HERE. .

Back in September of 2019, Saga Communications asked the FCC to deny the license renewals of five Low Power FM radio stations in Virginia. Saga claimed the stations were not following FCC rules to qualify them as LPFM's.

You may recall back on September 11 we reported that Saga Communications had filed a petition with the FCC about 5 LPFM's in Virginia. Saga believes the stations are operating as a cluster and running actual commercials to support their operation.

Yesterday we brought you a story about how Saga Communications has targeted five Low Power FM radio stations in Virginia. Ed Christian's company says they are operating as a cluster and breaking the FCC's rules for LPFM's. One LPFM owner and his attorney say that's all hogwash and Saga is just trying to bully them.

Saga Communication has filed a petition with the FCC, asking the Commission to deny five Low Power FM radio stations in Virginia their license renewals. Here's why...

The comment period is now open for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which includes technical proposals to improve LPFM reception and increase flexibility in siting while maintaining interference protection and the core LPFM goals of diversity and localism.

(By John Garziglia) LPFM proponents threw a massive incendiary device at Chairman Pai’s AM revitalization efforts through the filing of uniform Informal Objections against hundreds of pending FM translator applications proposing to carry AM primary stations. It is up to the FCC Chairman to defuse this bomb.

Low-power FM trio Prometheus Radio Project, Common Frequency, and the Center for International Media Action have filed an objection to over 1,000 of those applications. The groups are saying that the FCC isn’t observing the Local Community Radio Act of 2011.

With this week's start of the authorization for experimental FM geo-targeting services on booster stations, the FCC has released its Small Entity Compliance Guide for the process. The guide details key rules and their implications for full and low-power FM broadcasters.