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trogdor

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Wed Oct-19-05 10:01 AM
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High School's radio frequency seized by Christian network

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Edited on Wed Oct-19-05 10:02 AM by trogdor

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=107694
Maynard High School's radio frequency, 91.7 FM, is being seized by a network of Christian broadcasting stations that the Federal Communications Commission has ruled is a better use of the public airwaves.

``People are furious,'' said faculty adviser Joe Magno.

Maynard High's WAVM, which has been broadcasting from the school for 35 years, found itself in this David vs. Goliath battle when it applied to increase its transmitter signal from 10 to 250 watts.

According to Magno, that ``opens the floodgates for any other station to challenge the station's license and take its frequency.''

So WVAM is being hijacked by a Jesusy version of ClearChannel (cue "Jaws" music). Nice. Really nice. Makes you ask yourself, "what would Jesus do?"

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