Most mainstream media pundits dismiss the narrowcasting concept, and deride open narrowcast licences, particularly the low-power one-watt FM variety, as not being worth the paper they're written on.

THE WORD “broadcasting” connotes serving the widest possible audience. Since the 1920s that is what AM radio was all about. A good example is Baltimore’s WBAL, a 50,000-watt clear-channel powerhouse.

A month ago Brad Smart shared his thoughts to Radioinfo around the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) findings on the low powered open narrowcaster (LPON) Magic 87.6, broadcasting to ...

The station in Melbourne’s inner city, called J-AIR 88FM, has operated on a low-power open narrowcasting that was issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in 2014. In order to ...

The ABA has sent an update on the rule changes for Open Narrowcasting Radio Licences to people who have applied for information packs... 8 August 2002 This week radioinfo spoke to Nova 96 9’s General ...

These protection radii or “Exclusion Zones” (PDF 74KB) vary in size from 10km up to 160km, and they ban or partially ban the allocation of new LPONs within the area bounded by those circles. However, ...