It is an exciting time and I've come up with a few personal understandings off the top of my head:
1. The public needs a diverse media diet.
2. "social" "media" is not working.
3. Radio is hyper local.
4. You shouldn't do radio alone.
I just went to a mixer at the Third Coast Activist Resource Center which houses the Workers Defense Project. I talked to Robert Jensen, UT Journalism professor, Carlos, with the Center as well as a couple other people in attendance. I asked Robert about doing an event there in hopes of finding out who is applying for LPFM licenses locally. Robert said to contact him for a proposal form to book that space. I plan to do that but need to come up with an agenda and need some people to show up. As always sooner is better than later in terms of finding key players but I also want to have time to get the word out.
1. We want to know who is interested in radio locally
2. We want to know who is paying for engineering studies
3. We want to know results of engineering studies
4. We want to know what the application looks like and how to fill it out
5. We want to be ready when the application window opens