By expanding into new frequencies and making better use of public radio stations in multiple-station markets, public radio can offer more programming choices, increase the range of content delivered to a community, and improve the accessibility of both existing and new content and services. This will increase public radio's public service and, in turn, its financial support. The FCC finally adopts rules to resolve mutually exclusive noncommercial FM situations after decades of deadlock. For a summary of the FCC's new rules, go to MX. Later this year the Federal Communications Commission will auction 351 commercial FM channels in mid-size and small communities. Public radio licensees may be able to compete successfully for some of these channels to extend their serice to new areas or to add a second channel. To learn more about the auction, how to participate, and how SRG can help, go to our Auction page. SRG is working with about a dozen members that are actively engaged in one or more strategies to extend their service -- through station acquisitions, arrangements to manage or program other stations, or new technologies. Another dimension of our work to protect and extend stations delivery capacity is to participate in FCC proceedings that set the basic groundrules for public radio broadcasting. Read about SRG's: Work on FCC rules for resolving competing applications for licenses. Comments on the transition to digital audio broadcasting (DAB). SRG has published several papers to put the broader issues surrounding delivery capacity in perspective, starting with a 1997 report Building Delivery Capacity for Public Radio. A second report, published in 1998, focused on recent interest by SRG members in possibly acquiring control of additional broadcast spectrum through local acquisitions.