Last Sunday, in the Hive76 hackerspace located within the bowels of the old Bok Technical School building in South Philadelphia, volunteers and organizers were cleaning and putting the finishing touches on soundboards and other gear that will be integral to launching a community radio station, 106.5 WPPM, which stands for “People-Powered Media.”

It’s one of a handful of Philadelphia “low-power FM” (LPFM) radio stations, also known as community radio stations, that won a permit to operate from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year. Public access media nonprofit PhillyCAM, which applied for the WPPM permit, is helping to launch the station and will host it in its Old City headquarters but WPPM will do its own fundraising.

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