Radio Silenced; Fcc Says Oral-History Site Must Shut Its Mouth

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[Bob Bingham], a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a founder of the Brew House artists' collective, created South Side Radio to preserve and disseminate voices from the community. Its slate of interviews, many conducted by artist and performer Alexi Morrissey, had grown to four hours, was played 24 hours a day, and got some publicity locally; Bingham planned to add to the archive. The station ran off a 1-milliwatt transmitter, and Bingham said he finds it hard to believe the FCC's assertion that it exceeded the limits for an unlicensed station by a factor of "50 to 100." Bingham also said he was told unlicensed stations are forbidden to be heard at distances exceeding 300 feet, whereas South Side Radio could be heard up to a mile away.

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Radio Silenced; Fcc Says Oral-History Site Must Shut Its Mouth

MORE THAN THREE years after he started one of Pittsburgh's tiniest radio stations, artist Bob Bingham was told it w...

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