Helping Community Groups Become the Media

Too many times people from local community organizations have said to us, “I wish I had known about that opportunity before it was gone,” the opportunity to apply for a non-commercial radio station.

CMAP does thorough, systematic and comprehensive outreach and community group assistance, so we do not hear this lament again.

What We Do

     CMAP reaches out to community groups who might be interested in applying for non-commercial radio stations.

     CMAP will: help community groups to prepare an application; help the groups to increase organizational capacity; and then assist those groups through the application process, and then the build process.

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What's New:

Grassroots Radio Conference (GRC)

October 7-11, 2016 in Hot Springs, Arkansas

     The Grassroots Radio Conference is an annual gathering of folks from grassroots, volunteer-powered, community radio stations. It is an opportunity to get together to connect, learn new skills, discuss critical issues, and hopefully have some fun!

     The Grassroots Radio Coalition is a casual, but dedicated group of many stations and people that has no bylaws, no dues, no staff, and no standing structure. The GRC is created solely and kept alive by the people who participate.

     CMAP is helping to organize this conference. Here’s the website, http://www.grc2016.net/about-grc/.

So far we have confirmed the following workshops:

   - Power Your Station from the Sun - Bob Nagy

   - The Basics — Getting on Air and Being

          Legal:  This session is a must, whether

          you are already on-air or not – TBD

   - FM Transmit Chain Construction, from

          microphone to antenna - Bob Nagy

   - Studio to Transmitter Audio Linking using

          TCP Data Links – TBD

   - Survey of Radio Automation Systems - David

          Klann

   - Introduction to Rivendell Radio Automation

          - David Klann

   - Advanced Automation with Rivendell -

          David Klann

   - Open Source Software & Hardware - David

          Klann

   - Doing Live Remote Broadcasts for (almost)

          Free - Bob Dunn

   - Community Radio, A Global View - Jim

          Ellinger

   - Making Awesome Radio:  critical listening/

          critiquing, writing, organizing show

          clocks, Safe Harbor, on/off air best

          practices, dmca, Shows with Purpose

          (show proposals and outlines). We can

          even produce spots for KUHS to

          broadcast.  - Donna DiBianco

   - Communications Act of 1996, and how it

          affects you today - Bob Simmons

   - Refurbishing Equipment - Al Davis

   - Community Radio in the Wider Community

          Media Landscape: It's All About

          Relationship Building; Community

          Engagement – TBD

   - Building Studios - Al Davis

   - LPFM Roundtable - Sharon Scott

   - Fundraising: Ya Gotta Pay the Bills - TBD

   - LPFM Consortia News/Disaster Reporting -

          Tom Voorhees

   - Organizing the Organization:  Building and

          keeping a strong Board; Policies,

          Handbooks, Volunteer Contracts and

          more – Betty McArdle

   - Management models: where does the buck

          stop?   – Betty McArdle

More to come…..

Sign up today. There is an early bird registration fee of $175 good until October 1.



     For Community Groups who have a Construction Permit (CP)to build their LPFM stations: your CP may be expiring sometime soon.

   Check your CP to see what your expiration date is. Need help with that, call us at 503-245-5756 or email betty@c-map.org.

     See "Fact Sheets/Maps" for step-by-step instructions on how to apply for an 18-month extension on your CP, and a sample extension request letter.

     If you need help with that please call or email.

     We are here to help you!

New Phone Number for CMAP - 503-245-5756