microbroadcaster

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microbroadcaster (plural microbroadcasters)

  1. A low-power community-based noncommercial FM radio station that has a range of under 10 miles.
    • 1995, Communications Regulation Digest, page 84:
      A federal district court properly granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting "microbroadcaster" Prayze FM gospel radio station from broadcasting without a license where the FCC showed irreparable harm and was likely to prevail on the merits of Prayze's First Amendment claims.
    • 2001, Administrative Law:
      The district court erred in holding that the court of appeals had exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate an action for in rem forfeiture of a microbroadcaster's radio equipment.
    • 2009, Franco Berardi, Marco Jacquemet, Gianfranco Vitali, Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy, page 121:
      Others believed that no one would close the station down because it would be rather embarrassing for a magistrate to order the closure of a microbroadcaster when everyone knew that Italy was governed by a bully who had taken control of 90 percent of the available ether.