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NEWS / PRESS RELEASE
FROM COUNTRY 98ONE / FREE RADIO WARRENTON
THURSDAY JULY 26, 2001
CONTACT: Roy Clark 540 341 0329
WFRWFM98@YAHOO.COM
FCC VISTS AND ORDERED STATION OFF AIR
On Saturday, July 21, 2001 at around 1100am the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) visited and inspected radio station Country 98one / Free Radio Warrenton. The FCC took pictures of the broadcast facility and asked a few questions. Afterwards, he ordered the station off the air. This station has been on the air since Feb 24, 2001 24 hours 7days a week in Warrenton, Va.
Free Radio Warrenton is a public access independant media station, that seeks the citizens of Warrenton and surrounding area a place on the air to voice their views and opinions. Which is virtually impossible to do on stations that are controlled / owned by mega media
corporations.
We feel that the recent action by the federal government is unjust, invalid, and a violation to our constitutional rights to the public airwaves. Therefore we are not obeying such invalid order. We are still on the air on 98.1 24 hours a day / 7days a week.
We had filed an application for low power fm radio station license, but a big corporate media giant filed a petition to deny us, sighting third channel interference problems with a station on 98.7 in Washington DC. We find this argument and petition bogus. It is impossible for a ten watt radio station three channels away can interfere with a 50,000 watt station which is located forty miles away. The only possible interference would be they would interefere with us, and it is a very small ossibility of that happening.
So where is the problem we ask. We dont know cause there isn't one other than the corporate media giant dont want small public access
community radio stations on the air. So the outcome of our application was denied. We are seeking the support of the community in anyway that
they can support this radio station which is here for the community.
Contact information is at the top of this news release.
Thank you,
Roy Clark
Country 98one/Free Radio Warrenton