DOCUMENT RESUME ED 071 414 EM 010 656 AUTHOR Milam, Lorenzo W. TITLE Sex and Broadcasting; A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community. Second Edition. PUB DATE 72 NOTE 79p. AVAILABLE FROMKTAO, 5 University Avenue, Los Gatos, California 95030 ($2.15 postpaid) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 DESCRIPTORS *Broadcast Industry; Educational Radio; *Federal Laws; *Guides; Journalism; *Mass Media; Programing; *Radio IDENT1 iERS Federal Communications Commission; *FM Radio ABSTRACT "Broadcasting as it exists now in the United States is a pitiful, unmitigated whore." That ribald statement indicates the point -of -view and basic theme of this anti-establishment booklet designed to provide the basic information necessary for anyone or any group wanting to gain access to FM radio (primarily the educational broadcasting portion of the FM band, 88.1 to 91.9 megahertz). The technical hard facts involved actually starting and operating a small radio station are interspersed with irreverent anecdotes written in frank uncensored language. The Federal Communications Commission is portrayed as a massive bureaucratic obstacle while commercial radio station owners are described as "air wave robber barons". The booklet nevertheless contains a large amount of practical information and advice. Specific engineering considerations are explained in lay terms. The techniques and pitfalls of filing the applications, raising the necessary capital, and organizing the station are clearly _explained. The word "sex" in the title is a sales-increasing device and is misleading as a subject-matter indicator. (MC) FRO %I BEST AV:tILABLE COPY a 5 a a 0, r.> (.7 0,1._ a "),(.7 ,).." and Broadcasting A Handbook on Starting Community Radio Stations GL. ilam two Zolinti C y 3C-y3Cy3C y y -trs- 3C, y y S! :3S OF OMISSION ioul.L1 luFt a: ter everything else went Lo the printers' d:dn't menticn cte d:urn ( pco- blez. It you Live in one of the 'DO riricc or towns with a tv sation on Ch. the F,.2C. will not even accect..nur a it. ior 1.1.1.1.,:uif you a,t--f quer.cy below 90 mliz. It 1'a arc Sc encv- Ineeri:,,: travesty creaLed her tne tv , , maanate:s so the e.zin suck a few more buci!! , freeuenc.tes: end ln the 7 -.Doess coTpl_ FU. has r,,:lzef. : the educatter.ei rm baLc. Thc y q?t , tt.,t h.v.L 6 t 71-4). ."" *.t 41,-1: . , . : gc,t ter ettero trLw ot wintir4 _r)w !f t1-et- C, , ,1",11," rLt:ctl ; -3itjf.0 1 - , ex3sti,Ig ;al. :M ,s th them) h 3 .2. ( tai.o-1,s or , , t Edit "),1 v- 1. tit 11. C'13 31 ; , --cadcaFter *IA come 'o Lalizs. that th..2; 4 It, than their t"-,1t w 7k' let's hopt!theFCC will t:ontirut: 41,ft .401A".4;:fi444.0" 4,49 'Wg114, -1 - ;fr1(040,114.* 4 4 Tbose tvijo itnacitneb (that) they had madea revo- lution always saw the next day that they did not know what they had been doing, and that the revolution they made was nothing like the one they had wanted to =ice." --Friedrich Engels, as quoted in Putsch! by Richard Hanser The author should liketo thank Vega, who translated B F Dawson'scryptic prose; Fritz Reuterman, whoproofread the whole; Ed Backman,who ran FM in the United States fortwenty years or so; Ben F Waple, who signedeverything; Major Edw. W. Armstrong,who made it all possible; andJohann Sebastian Bach, who made it all worth- while. " W ,WW 0.1. f.) t.) C./ There is no copyright on this booklet. It may be reproduced in all ways, shapes, forms, and personal delusions...by all who may care to do so. All we ask is that yol give us credit, and that you tell people they can order extra copies from The Whole Earth Truck Store, our distribu- tors (Bookpeople of Berkeley) or direct from KTAO, 5 Univ- ersity Avenue, Los Gatos, California 95030. The first edition of 1000 copies of Sex and Broadcas4,-- ing sold for One Dollah. managed to lose our ass at that price. The book cost 513.2 per copy to print, cost another 14 to mail out, and we had to give 607, to distri- butors. We gave ourselves nothing for the jo, of writing and printing it. So we are now asking that you pay $2 for this edition, plus 15C for the mailing. Any ex- cess monies will go to KTAO and KDNA for the continuation of fine and honest community radio. We could do no less. W1713111-UTTVIt CaTITNFS Credits iv A Note on the Secone. Edition vi 0: Radio' 5 The Most Early -1..ct of Mansmission 8 To Apply for the Permit of Congress1C The Big Secret on Out Your Form 23 He Plugs in the Superphone 27 The Union of the Triodes 32 She Seeks Sane Relief 35 He Felt far Her Phasetron 36 A Union of Transmissions 37 Other Groans and Grunts 38 Her Eyes Veiled Over. She Sighed 43 A Small Arrival 45 0 Powder, Sweet Powder 54 A Typical Day (And Night ) 55 Johnny Gets in the Act 60 There Is Mention of Small Change 61 Yet Another Intimate Transmission 64 The Neighbors Are Convinced That it Is a House of Ill-Repute 66 Finally, The Police Arrive 68 Dr. Harris Arrives With a Solution 71 ...And There is a Sharp (Albeit Pointed) Conclusion 72 ft40001.040060oc.4010.2.44010.,%40kbotAWDb/4100119ftsed401101oe.4163-,..,446410w savor...A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION US AlliMM WM =Mil----u co=ws Except for the first three pages of text, the whole of Sex & Broadcasting has been elaborately revised. It is now about five times longer, with about one-third of the bombast of the first edition. The book came out in June of 1971 be- cause I got goddamned sick and tired of writing up single-space five page let- ters for all those people wanting to set up alternative, community radio sta- tions. I put the whole thing together in three: days. It showed. But it sold. We exhausted the first printing in less than three months, with the kind help of The Whole Earth Catalogue, The Village Voice, Source, L,:beration News Service, and Vocations for Social Change. (This is in unpleasant contrast to my first book The M,rkin Papers, which took five years to write, three months and $6000 to print, and which sold some 150 copies. If you =Ire willing to pay $5 for that turkey, I still have a few dozen cartons under my bed and behind the door.) That so malty people are interested in the art (..f radio and radio station building is good and hopeful. What is tragic is that so many of my correspon- dents come from Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and other large cities where there is no good human alive community radio, and where .172T t ''',' ' t .." 4 : f t- t ....,g: ,_,,- -..--... - fr, to Z-: .; ': -.,:9.- . !: ft, _)-.!:1-,:.:1:.,- .., :7 :',1-Ls t.I.,/i.. Lu.::-tz-_-_, 47 _.. :.4-pq. r.1-torders, avitli..1,:t to irilic rat If' t! -,7n,..-: .,,-,,, d IL Tar 11.2 ..., Tit: c (.:: (i- -..:arr- ex -01:.1-,. :-.04-. --.*:21.503..?hil.- :-..r ,:ny f..:r7r,.. t, P. ,,--14,--,:c: -7,'..:ci-. ha..:: itz :1-.urned ...; -_, Micv...,- ,!.." -.1, --- . .: ..rly0",;-._. 1 II ....; 1.: !..etra:.'"' _ 7'1- ' ', A -...'-- 1.1 '-`i-0-,.- ,::: -.' . 1 1_' ', (::: I ...`..-.4-..2-...t -:,,,t-.. , r c: 1 7, : o2.C, t r.,.. ::: i Lbt . '_:i .1:4. :, ). ;:.-(_4(.:,:a;.; ,: (-- , ..f.' ,. '"i.- il-f-3, ,.!Ne2ticete -1,-. al :-_-(,,rolv: -::-.! to Eat, or sleep, ot1,-.._. f*, c -. c-_,I; tt-.eme t,..) t 7 , ::-. 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I I ) r 411)r..4'.4..4.1 ; _t-. e_.2C tho. uni `,1 s whcre t 3(..14E2 , .-)1 1 Iv c.-rx t(1-f et 11 I .1.--. r,rp, 2. -...- ; I t 47 '2 ) ' L it,s4,:,."7::,C (7`- 1 _ Zh . t 1-01ta ' z . or Jot;tey ihe of numb animal to be pap--e for t1b9 Turpos, t from him. The art of r.ldio2(7,1 lo ure.i for artisticmeans, thc radio- soul. Joos not haveto bmade into a otruApet l'1r soap and !:oliticianc. 131. a4SsWtOkall The dismal state of American broad- casting is perpetuated by those nit- 6wits who should know better. Broad- castini Magazine, a master at praising the whole 19th century robber baron tradition of commercial broadcasting, shrieks 'censorship' everytime the Federal Communications Commission moves timidly into the area of consumer [listener and viewer] pro- tection.