Lee Terry: “This is grassroots radio. We have had pirate radio. Now we are going to have legitimate grassroots radio. This is…”

“This is grassroots radio. We have had pirate radio. Now we are going to have legitimate grassroots radio. This is empowering to those that have little or no voice in their communities. This is why the gentleman from Pittsburgh and I have worked so diligently over the last 8-10 years. Actually it goes back almost 12 years, when we helped get the MITRE Study, so we could know based on science whether or not there would be interference or not. And when that study, a thorough study, came back and said there would be no interference, Mike and I began the process of making sure that we could allow on the third adjacency communities to have a licensed FM station. That is what low power is about, communities. It is not going to blast from Omaha to Lincoln. It probably won't even go from East Omaha to midtown in Omaha or in Pittsburgh. But the reality is it will serve the community. Just in my district alone, in the Omaha metropolitan area, since beginning this process we have had dozens of community groups contact us about when they will be able to apply for a low power FM station.”