microbroadcaster

plural microbroadcasters

1. A low-power community-based noncommercial FM radio station that has a range of under 10 miles.

   The district court erred in holding that the court of appeals had exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate an action for in rem forfeiture of a microbroadcaster's radio equipment.

   2001, Administrative Law

   2 more examples

   A federal district court properly granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting "microbroadcaster" Prayze FM gospel radio station from broadcasting without a license where the FCC showed irreparable harm and was likely to prevail on the merits of Prayze's First Amendment claims.

   1995, Communications Regulation Digest, page 84

   Others believed that no one would close the station down because it would be rather embarrassing for a magistrate to order the closure of a microbroadcaster when everyone knew that Italy was governed by a bully who had taken control of 90 percent of the available ether.

   2009, Franco Berardi, Marco Jacquemet, Gianfranco Vitali, Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy, page 121