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Does that include licensing of the frequency or just the infrastructure? Even if it includes some duration of the license, I expect there are still regulations
by daveguy 4y ago
Does that include licensing of the frequency or just the infrastructure? Even if it includes some duration of the license, I expect there are still regulations and red tape to maintain that license. And regulations about what you can broadcast.
- quartz 4y agoOh sure, the list of FCC rules is seemingly endless... but it's still a pretty wide margin of media and speech permitted especially on the "talk radio" side of things.
- geerlingguy 4y agoThe operational requirements are a bit stringent, though—there are certain staffing and compliance requirements for the studio and transmitter facilities. And even low-power AM transmission stations need an annoying amount of physical plant maintenance—cutting grass, trimming overgrowth, fixing all the random annoying issues that crop up when maintaining any kind of equipment at a remote site (theft, rodents, water ingress, cooling, power, comms, etc.).
- yetanotherloser 4y agoThat sounds like "being responsible for a building'. Buy a seagoing boat sometime to play this game on hardmode :-D