microradio

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ radio

Noun

microradio (uncountable)

1. (US) The use of low-power community-based noncommercial FM radio stations broadcasting to a range of approximately 10 miles or less.
   • 1999, Lawrence C. Soley, Free Radio: Electronic Civil Disobedience, page 104:

     Attendees at Pearl Jam concerts are encouraged to tune to the station before and after the show, and fans who were unable to get or afford concert tickets can still hear Pearl Jam concerts over the microradio station.

   • 2000, Carla B. Johnston, Screened Out: How the Media Control Us and What We Can Do About it, →ISBN:

     The microradio advocates argue that the U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to regulate interstate commerce and it can make treatise with other nations, but the federal government cannot interfere in this right of people to communicate at a local level.

   • 2011, Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media, →ISBN:

     In fact, the FCC's cautious microradio engineering plan was taken from a plan that had been successfully developed by commercial broadcasters themselves in the early 1990s to put more stations on the air.