Visit the story link above for the Austin Chronicle's comprehensive June 22nd, 2001 update on Free Radio Austin, Austin Radio One, and Micro-KIND Radio.

The rebel stations' argument was straightforward: The airwaves, said advocates of what was becoming the "microradio movement," are a natural resource, like water, and control of that resource belongs to all the people, not to commercial corporations. Needing advertising money to survive, commercial stations are constrained to serve the interests of advertisers, not the interests of the listeners -- and the microradio stations would fill the gap.