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Re: This is a great idea
Heh...well that's the problem with "community radio". It is not supposed to be serving you 20 miles away. 
Here in the Chicago area there are about three dozen college and high school station stuffed into those 20 channels, along with a couple of the usual suspects like Moody on 90.1 (running a grandfathered 100 KW ERP which takes six other channels out of the pool for small locals but at least runs some local programming) and Family Stations up at 91.9 in Joliet at 50 KW ERP wasting electricity & spectrum and running nothing local.
At least in the Chicago market the very high density of little class-D NCE-FMs in the 70's who upgraded to class-A predated the "religious" invasion and occupation of the band so the bulk of what you hear down there is amateurish, inconsistent and totally wonderful.
Having been in this business for over 30 years now it really pains me to see what the "product" has become, but many of my clients still do it the old fashioned way, and actually serve their markets and gives me a little ray of hope...
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