93.7 FM San Francisco Liberation Radio
750 LaPlaya #852, San Francisco, CA 94121

Contact: Richard Edmondson, 415-750-1714

For Immediate Release

Radio Wars: SFLR plans response to NAB,
KFOG engineer's attacks

Oct. 2, 1997

     San Francisco Liberation Radio, a 40-watt micro station
broadcasting on the city's west side, will air a series of responses to
attacks on micro radio by the National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB).

     "We and Free Radio Berkeley were specifically singled out at the
NAB convention in Las Vegas earlier this year," said SFLR co-founder
Richard Edmondson.  "Someone at FRB obtained a tape of that convention
and passed it along to us."

     He said the tape reveals that Bill Ruck, chief engineer for two
prominent San Francisco commercial radio stations--KFOG and
KNBR--attended the NAB convention, giving a slide presentation during a
panel discussion on "pirate radio."

     "What this tape shows is that Mr. Ruck is essentially an informant
for the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)," Edmondson said.

     The presentation, in front of a high-ranking FCC official, included
photographs clandestinely made of the building fronts of both SFLR and
FRB.

     The NAB, a trade organization representing commercial broadcast
outlets, has taken a strong position against micro radio, calling upon
its member stations to seek out "pirate" broadcasters in their areas and
turn  information as to their identities and whereabouts over to the
FCC.

     "We feel that the NAB is a very warped, very possessive
organization with a we-own-the-airwaves mentality," Edmondson said.

     Sitting on the panel with Ruck were Beverly Baker, chief of the
Compliance and Information Bureau of the FCC, and Jack Goodman, vice
president of the NAB's Policy Council.

     "This tape makes very clear the intentions of the corporations and
the government with regard to micro radio," Edmondson said.

     KFOG and KNBR are owned by the Susquehanna Radio Corp., a
Dallas-Ft. Worth-based corporation which also owns stations in Texas,
Georgia and Ohio.

     The NAB tape, along with SFLR's response, will air during SFLR's
week-long fund raising marathon October 13-19.  The marathon begins at 4
pm Monday the 13th.

     SFLR's signal can be heard mainly on the west side of San
Francisco, from the beach east to Masonic--7 days a week from 4pm-10pm.