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microbroadcaster en · NOUN

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

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