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| Beat Radio 97.7:
| How Beat Radio began
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| Photo Gallery: You Are There! FCC and US Marshals
| in the act of silencing Beat Radio 97.7 (11/1/96)
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The FCC visits here too. Since 1996.
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October 4, 2000 Supreme Court petition
| for certiorari
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March 27, 2000 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
| decision against Beat Radio
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February 26, 1999 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
| decision in favor of Beat Radio
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Get your Beat Radio T-Shirt and poster!
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| Beat Radio DJ wins award; two others nominated (9/18/02)
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| Beat Radio DJs win awards (5/2/01)
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| Beat Radio DJs win awards (5/00)
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| Beat Radio DJ wins award; two others nominated (4/21/99)
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| Beat Radio DJ wins award (5/98)
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| Michael Moore comes to the aid of
| Beat Radio and ARD (9/19/97)
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| Articles indexed in chronological sequence of release
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| Rolling Stone
| Pirate Radio Goes Legal
| FCC approves low-power radio (3/2/00 edition, issue #835)
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| New York Times
| Upstarts in Radio's Land of the Bland (1/29/00)
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| Wall Street Journal
| FCC Set To Open Nation's Airwaves To
| 1,000 Low-Power FM Radio Stations (1/17/00)
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| New York Press
| Weak Signals (11/17/99)
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| Main Street Tattler [industry tipsheet]
| To LPFM, or not to LPFM (9/17/99)
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| Mother Jones
| Low Power To The People (July/August 1999 edition)
| with Beat Radio references
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| Reason
| Radio Waves (June 1999 edition)
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| San Francisco Examiner
| Bay Area pirate radio helped clear the air for
| new broadcast licenses (5/17/99)
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| Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Editorial (5/5/99)
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| Seattle Post-Intelligencer
| Low-Powered Radio Stations
| Fighting To Be Heard (4/29/99)
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| The Gavin Report
| Soon Above and Below 92 (4/23/99)
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| The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
| Low-power radio stations proposed;
| Supporters tout greater diversity (4/20/99)
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| Salon Magazine
| More Power to Low-Power! (4/15/99)
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| Radio World
| Everybody Take a Deep Breath
| Debate Is Shaping Up As 'Us Vs. Them' (4/14/99)
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| The Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
| Hope On Horizon for Radio Stations (4/6/99)
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| The Detroit News
| FCC tunes in pirate radio;
| Proposal to allow tiny stations
| would diversify airwaves (4/6/99)
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| Wall Street Journal
| Battle of the Airwaves:
| Little Guys Fight for a Piece of
| the Radio Spectrum (3/22/99)
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| Rolling Stone
| An FCC Proposal Could Pave The Way For
| New Independent Stations (4/1/99 edition, issue #809)
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| CMJ New Music Monthly
| Power To the People (4/99 issue, #68)
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| NAB [anti-] "Low Power FM Kit" (3/17/99)
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| LA Weekly
| High Seas for Pirate Radio (3/12/99)
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| Mother Jones
| (Low) Power to the People (3/9/99)
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| Radio World Opinion
| Bring On Low Power (3/2/99)
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| Gambit Weekly (New Orleans)
| Watt Up? A proposal for new FM 'micro'
| stations faces opposition... (3/2/99)
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| The Progressive Populist
| FCC Proposes Low-Power Community Radio (3/99)
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| Pulse of the Twin Cities
| Cover Story: Low-Power Radio:
| Pirates or Patriots? (2/24/99)
| with Beat Radio references
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| Boston Globe
| Editorial: Different voices on the radio (2/20/99)
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| Associated Press
| FCC could ease station ownership limits (2/12/99)
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| New York Times
| A Hope for the Offbeat on Small FM (2/10/99)
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| Los Angeles Times
| Editorial: New Voices In the Air (2/10/99)
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| Washington Post
| Power to the Pirates? FCC May License Low-Wattage
| Operations (2/9/99)
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| Boston Herald
| FCC's plan to let everyday people own a station
| ripples airwaves (2/4/99)
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| Investor's Business Daily
| Free the Airwaves (1/5/99)
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| NPR's All Things Considered
| Telecomm: it's changing what you hear
| Radio vs Reality (1/3/99)
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| Media Central
| Micro-Radio Broadcasters in a Macro-Radio World:
| Whose Airwaves Are They, Anyway? (1/7/98)
| with Beat Radio reference
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| Minnesota Daily
| Editorial: Radio Airwaves need to be
| freer for public (11/17/97)
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| Minnesota Daily: "Radio Days"
| Covering Beat Radio and Ballot Box Radio (10/30/97)
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| Americans for Radio Diversity Statement on
| ABC/Disney Station Shuffle (9/19/97)
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The Trickle-Down Theory: Speech by then-FCC
| Commissioner Rachelle Chong (9/19/97)
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Radio World
| Opinion: Low Power, High Hassle (8/20/97)
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Peanuts or Pirates, Make 'Em Legal
| by Kent Waterman (8/97)
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New York Times
| Commentary: Channel Giveaway Blackout is
| abuse of power (7/24/97)
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| Cato Institute report
| Why Community Radio doesn't need the
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting
| (Contains a section on low-power FM)



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