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Company wants time on school radio stations
Districts, students unhappy with Texas broadcaster's effort
November 12, 2004
http://www.freep.com/news/metro/hsradio12e_20041112.htm

BY LORI HIGGINS
FREE PRESS EDUCATION WRITER

Drive through Southfield, flip the FM radio dial to 88.3 and chances
are the sound you'll hear is a distinct mix of hip-hop and rap.

But for how long?

That depends on how successful a Texas company with religious ties is.

  From nearly 1,300 miles away, that company, R B Schools, is making
waves through Michigan's community of high school radio stations by
trying to horn in on the air time of a handful of stations. It has done
so by filing an application with the Federal Communications Commission
that would force students to share their section of the radio dial.

It's a situation that has school officials scratching their heads. Some
are hiring broadcast attorneys and fighting back.

"This is all new territory to me," said Peter Bowers, station manager
at WBHF-FM (88.1), the radio station at Andover High School in
Bloomfield Hills.

His school's station is one of those targeted. So are Southfield High
School's WSHJ (88.3) and Plymouth-Canton Educational Park's WSDP
(88.1), as well as high school stations in Flint and Saginaw.

The company wants the schools to agree to share their airwaves. If R B
Schools' attempts to negotiate an agreement fail, the company wants the
FCC to intervene.

Officials from R B Schools, based in Keene, Texas, did not return calls
seeking comment. Nor did Donald Martin, the Falls Church, Va., attorney
who represents the company.

The company's filing with the FCC indicates it intends to broadcast
educational programming on topics such as literature, history, social
sciences, health, hygiene, nutrition, child development, interpersonal
relationships and civics.

But the company's president, Linda de Romanett, is also president and
director of several companies that operate radio stations that have
religious programming, including WBAJ (890), an AM station in
Blythewood, S.C., that boasts on its Web site: "We broadcast about
Jesus!"

"What this market doesn't need is another religious radio station,"
said Dick Kernen, vice president at Specs Howard School of Broadcast
Arts in Southfield.

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