Beat Radio

Beat Radio, the FCC, and you!

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Exclusive photos of the FCC and U.S. Marshals in the act of silencing the first version of Beat Radio - Beat Radio 97.7 - November 1, 1996!

July 21, 1996, Beat Radio made its debut at 97.7 FM in Minneapolis! For 103 days, Minneapolis listeners enjoyed a unique dance music station - an exciting, original and invigorating radio station programmed in Minneapolis for Minneapolis and unlike any of its neighbors on the dial. Now, over six years later and lots of history in between, Beat Radio is silent at 97.7 FM, and the perfectly usable frequency for a low-power station goes to waste because a group of other Twin Cities stations (and a station *in Rochester, 80 miles away*), prompted by the Minnesota Broadcasters Association (MBA), flexed their collective influence with the FCC, which seized essential equipment on November 1, 1996. Visit our press section to view the extensive print media coverage. Despite Beat Radio remaining active by returning to the air on a number of other non-LPFM stations since our first "version" on 97.7, we remain strongly committed to LPFM and are working to insure that the FCC's introduction of LPFM proceeds as intended.

FCC BeatRadiowatch Tracker
Big Brother is Beat-watching.

30 documented visits in 1998
36 in '99
25 in '00
and they are still watching in 2002, year #7!:


Here are the agency's documentable visits since 12/31/97; they don't always enter from the fcc.gov domain. Clever.

First visit: August 1996
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How thoughtful of them! They stopped by to wish us a happy 2nd birthday! It's nice to know we're remembered.
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December 13 '00
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February 15 '01 (they stopped by on February 15th last year too!)
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And their pals at the U.S. Department of Justice stop by too, every once in awhile, including a Sunday(?!) look-see in March '98 and a Saturday snoop in October '00...

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February 14 '02
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