Welcome to NFCB!

Updates available! Forgot your password?

Community Radio News
Assessments
Representation
Board Trainings
Listserv
Links
Group Buys

Benefits
Application
Online Member Directory

Downloads:
NFCB Progress Report

NFCB Brochure

History
Staff
Board of Directors

Public Radio Legal Handbook
Guide to Underwriting
Digital Audiocraft
Starting an LPFM Station
Volunteer Management Handbook
Rural Program Directors Manual
Producer's Guide
Youth Manual
Streaming Manual

The 34th Annual Community Radio Conference took place April 1 through April 4, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. Select conference material is now available for download.
Keynote Address
Resources from Workshops & Panels

Member Station Webinars
   • Public Interactive SoundExchange Reporting
     for NFCB Stations
   • Music Licensing
   • Online Giving: A Year-Round Opportunity
   • Digitizing Your Music Library
   • PPM: Changes in Audience Measurement
   • Contests, Lotteries and Co-Promotions
   • Underwriting in a Down Economy
   • Advancing Your Station Through Major
     Giving, Session 3
   • Advancing Your Station Through Major
     Giving, Session 2
   • Advancing Your Station Through Major
     Giving, Session 1

New Station Webinars
   • Transmission Equipment: Powering the Voice
   • Streaming Radio for Community Stations
   • Legal Issues for New Managers
   • Programming a Community Radio Station
   • Successful PTFP Applications
   • Governance & Operations for New Stations
   • Business Planning for New Stations

New Technologies, New Music
Native Public Media
Radio for People
Basic Radio Station Website Strategies
Low Power FM

The Bader Award
Volunteer of the Year Award
Entry Forms

Become a fan on Facebook!

Follow us on Twitter!

del.icio.us/NFCB

New!
DEI-NFCB Collaboration
[Click here to login]

New!
Digital Audio Craft Available Now
[Click here]

NEW!
NFCB has filed comments with the FCC on Ownership Reports.
[Click here to read our position on collecting information about gender, race, and Tribal entities as well as filing date and process.]

NEW!
DEI and NFCB Collaborate
[Click here for Press Release]

NEW!
Keynote speech and other select materials from the 2009 NFCB Community Radio Conference is now available.
[Click here]

NEW!
John Crigler Wins
2009 Bader Award
[Click here to download the press release]

NEW!
Results of the WMMT Audience Research Study
[Click here]

NEW!
Candace McKenna Wins 2009 Volunteer of the Year Award
[Click here to download the press release]

NEW!
International Journalists’ Resolution
[Click here to download the PDF]

New Technologies,
New Music
If you missed NFCB's seminar series on independent music and digital platforms, we have all the content available now on demand.
[Click here to access all the files]

NFCB Participant Members covered by CPB Sound Exchange Agreement
CPB has reached an agreement with Sound Exchange around royalties for webcasters which covers NFCB participant members.
[Click here to learn more about this]

Letter to President-elect Obama
On December 18th, NFCB joined a coalition of groups and individuals in signing a letter to President-elect Obama reminding him of his campaign promises to shift communications policy toward the public interest.
[Click here to view the letter]

NFCB’s Strategic Plan
[Click here to view the Word document]

The FCC has issued a new version of The Public and Broadcasting, revised April 2008.
[Click here to view and print this document for your station’s public file.]

Basic Radio Station Website Strategies
See the PowerPoint presentation on listeners’ use of station websites and tips for designing yours.
[View Now]

Music Licensing Information
Includes fee schedules and links to licensing applications.

Check Your Indecency IQ
Attorney John Crigler of Garvey Schubert Barer has an indecency quiz. Take the quiz and see how much you know about current FCC indecency rulings. John has also written an indecency primer. Download and read the Primer.