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Show Commim Park City has become one of the smallest towns ever accepted into full membership member-ship of the National Federation Federa-tion of Community Broadcasters Broad-casters (NFCB). ; J Meeting at Evergreen State College the 50 station federation voted unanimously to accept Community Com-munity Wireless of Park City (CWPC) as a member. The vote on Wireless, which is working to build a non-commercial radio station in Park City, came after N FCB members reviewed CWPCs articles of incorporation, incorpor-ation, bylaws, 'and FCC application to determine if the proposed station would "strive to reflect the community com-munity through the active participation of men and women of all races, cultures and ages." ; - "...and that the station would be controlled by representatives of the community, com-munity, and that a full range of opinion in the community would - find expression through the station." In commenting on CWPCs application to the NFCB Nan Rubin, NFCB development director,.. seated: seat-ed: "It is evidentthat you (CWPC) have really spent some time thinking about the needs of Park City ...it shows in your exhibits." She went on to state: "Your ascertainment was creative and very concrete and your proposed Board of Trustees structure appears broad-based... good work!" CWPC joined NFCB nearly near-ly a year ago as an associate member and NFCB worked closely with Wireless in preparing its license application applica-tion to the Federal Communications Commun-ications ; Commission (FCC), submitted Mav 7. NFCB is based in Washington, Wash-ington, DC where it repre- sents the interests of non-; non-; commercialcommunity radio stations before the FCC and Congress. NFCB members mem-bers include stations in most major cities of the country, from KPFK in Los Angeles to KTOO in Juneau, Alaska. By membership in NFCB, Community Wireless has gained access to a nationwide nation-wide program exchange which will enable producers of radio programs in Park City to distribute those programs nationwide. In addition, Wireless can draw on the federation for assistance in preparing future fu-ture grant applications and take advantage of the quarterly quar-terly "group ; buys" of broadcast equipment organized organ-ized by the NFCB. ' What membership means is that Wireless has plugged into the resources ot stations like us all across the nation,"-commented CWPC President Blair Feulner. Feulner, who attended the week long NFCB conference, said the meetings and workshops provided Wireless Wire-less with a tremendous ' amount of data, including an opportunity to talk at length with a member of the. FCC Washington staff. "Just that conversation alone probably saved us several hundred dollars in long distance telephone balls to DC," he said. 'j; As for the Wireless timetable, time-table, Feulner said a new procedure for processing applications adopted by the FCC last month, could result in faster processing of CWPCs application, which has been on file in Washington Washing-ton for nearly four months now. "It's impossible to outguess out-guess the FCC, but the indications are that we will get a construction permit sometime in October." In the meantime, Feulner said the radio group will be launching a 4 'Station Creation' Crea-tion' campaign soon to get residents involved in station organization and to help raise the estimated $10,000 it will cost to get on the air. |