Resources on LPFM from the Katrina @ 5 workshop "Radio Is King: The Low Power FM Revolution in Your Neighborhood"

On Monday, March 22, 2010: 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., as part of the Katrina @ 5 Conference in New Orleans, GFEM is hosting a workshop on Low Power FM.

 Radio Is King: The Low Power FM Revolution in Your Neighborhood

GFEM's executive director Alyce Myatt is joined by Hannah Sassaman of Prometheus Radio Project and John Freeman of KOCZ 103.7 LPFM in Opelousas, Louisiana in a session on the whys, hows and low cost(!) of establishing low-power FM radio stations – critical information hubs that are filling a gap left by the hurricane and the collapse of journalism as we previously knew it.

Session Resources: 

What is LPFM? http://www.freepress.net/lpfm%20

Bill Moyers on LPFM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EriXIv7LAQo 

LPFM Success Stories http://www.freepress.net/lpfm/success 

The Promise of Low Power FM http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3306/the_promise_of_low_power_fm/%20

Download additonal resources below from Prometheus - including a Spanish language overview of LPFM and two brief English language outlines.