What will happen to noncommercial media if it moves into the French Market of America?
The explosion of community radio was a result of not only the foresight of the original Carnegie Commission and Congress to allocate part of our dials to noncommercial media, but also the actions of a guy named Lorenzo Milam, a subversive all-star who learned the technology and tricks and published a how-to manual for FM licensing and community radio in 1972. He called it Sex and Broadcasting because, Freedman says, Milams grandmother assured him that it would sell more copies than a descriptive title. She was right. Freedman himself, starting up a community station in Santa Cruz at the time, created a corporation of a bunch of nobodies, walking around Santa Cruz, he says. We were bare-footed, long-haired, and not something CPB wanted anything to do with. Thirty years later, the nations network of community radio stations, connected through the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), are good citizens in the radio world, he says, and CPB not only involves us, but theres a
