Editorial policy

This page states how Citizens Radio Review is written and checked. It exists so a reader can judge the magazine, and so an advertiser knows exactly what can and cannot be bought here.

Sources and figures

The magazine reports from public life: FCC orders and databases, statute text such as the Local Community Radio Act of 2011, station websites, volunteer project archives and the engineering arithmetic of the FM band. Every figure is published as it stands in those sources, from the 100-watt ceiling and the 30 metre height limit to the October 2013 window and its thousands of applications. Where sources disagree or a number moves with terrain, we write a band, not a promise, and the coverage guide shows that habit at work.

What we refuse

No invented statistics, no invented stations, no regulatory claims we cannot source, and no dressing up of a rule’s purpose. Plain-language translation never changes meaning: where a rule is genuinely ambiguous, the page says so instead of picking a convenient reading, as the point system guide does at every tie.

Corrections

Corrections are published directly into the affected page, without silent edits of meaning. Readers report movements through the address on the contact page, and each accepted correction updates the page it concerns.

Sponsorship

Sponsored placements, when they exist, are labelled on the page itself and governed by the rules on the sponsored content page. No sponsorship alters a figure, a rule translation or a verdict on an option a founding group faces.