[grc] National LPFM Org

[Sabrina Roach]

Lanny - I'm so excited to learn you're on a PEG board. It would be awesome
if you replied back to the list about why you joined that board. Like how
your LPFM and the PEG station serve community.

I got an email from someone who wanted to know more about PEG, so I drafted
a slightly different version of my last email:

I'm game to work on fundraising for one, but first, let's map out exactly
what it would provide and what the costs are.

As some folks don't feel like NFCB is a good fit, would Alliance for
Community Media be a fit? There are many PEG stations that have LPFMs.
Harrington handles their nonprofit back office and could do the same for a
national LPFM organization.

For folks who are unfamiliar with PEG - it's Public Access Education and
Government TV funded by cable franchise agreements. They are mission
aligned with community radio but have exponentially more money. They also
have a great deal to learn from community radio's individual giving
programs and community engagement.

It's not uncommon for PEG's to have annual operating budgets over a million
and for their EDs to make 80-100K. Their equipment suppliers make more
money available at the regional level for PEG gathering sponsorships than
radio service and equipment companies do.

I've been on the Alliance for Community Media NW Region Board for several
years and just joined the Foundation of ACM board.

At the regional organizing level, PEG sponsorship $ made it possible for us
to do a NW Community Media Summit in 2015. We're producing one for March
2017 and are using it to expand the notion of what is community media and
who makes it.

It's a great way to strengthen relationships regionally so that we can
support each other. In 2013 when the future of NFCB and the Alliance for
Community Media at the national level were iffy, at the regional level we
began to plan how we'd support each other.

I think we've arrived at a time when NFCB and ACM are strong AND we need to
think about what LPFM uniquely needs -- as well as how we're moving that
mutual support forward at the national level and regionally.

Sabrina


On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Lanny Cotler <lanny at kllg.org> wrote:

> I’d love to learn more about how PEG stations and LPFMs work together. I
> happen also to be on the board of our local (Willits, CA) PEG (Public
> Access) station. I’ve thought little about the connection twixt the twain.
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> *KLLG-LP ~ 97.9 FM*
> Lanny Cotler, General Manager
> A Project of Little Lake Grange #670
> Willits Hometown Radio—Low Power, High Energy
> P.O Box 820, Willits, CA 95490
> 707-367-1812 <(707)%20367-1812>
> LANNY at KLLG.ORG <LANNY at kllg.org>
> WWW.KLLG.ORG <http://www.kllg.org>
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> On Dec 23, 2016, at 5:16 PM, Sabrina Roach via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
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> Also sent to NCEorg
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> I'm game to work on fundraising for one, but first, let's map out exactly
> what it would provide and what the costs are.
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> As some folks don't feel like NFCB is a good fit, would Alliance for
> Community Media be a fit? There are many PEG stations that have LPFMs.
> Harrington handles their nonprofit back office and could do the same for a
> national LPFM organization.
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> Sabrina
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