Meanings
- USuncountableThe use of low-power community-based noncommercial FM radio stations broadcasting to a range of approximately 10 miles or less.
In fact, the FCC's cautious microradio engineering plan was taken from a plan that had been successfully developed by commercial broadcasters themselves in the early 1990s to put more stations on the air.
2011, Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media, →ISBN2 more examples
Attendees at Pearl Jam concerts are encouraged to tune to the station before and after the show, and fans who were unable to get or afford concert tickets can still hear Pearl Jam concerts over the microradio station.
1999, Lawrence C. Soley, Free Radio: Electronic Civil Disobedience, page 104The microradio advocates argue that the U.S. Constitution allows the federal government to regulate interstate commerce and it can make treatise with other nations, but the federal government cannot interfere in this right of people to communicate at a local level.
2000, Carla B. Johnston, Screened Out: How the Media Control Us and What We Can Do About it, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Cite this entry
microradio. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microradio
“microradio.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microradio. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microradio,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microradio.
Source: microradio on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.