Let me know if you ever want to talk about this. I helped two low power FM stations get "legit" or "get off the ground" in the PNW.- Found out about low power radio! https://www.prometheusradio.org/ Supposedly sometime soonish the FCC will give away radio bandwidth to nonprofits running < 100 W transmitters. Thats somewhere around a three mile effective radius. Music licensing is cheap (couple hundred a year) and cost of equipment is sorta cheap (~5k) definitely affordable for someone not paying rent. Less than the amount I've lost in stocks in just the last few months.
Definitely do! Only found out about it last week but it seems really achievable and fun. Already daydreaming about finally having a reason to go back to the makerspaces & putting on stuff for local bands and aaa... would be so cool. Was this around 2013 when the last LPFM bandwidth dropped, or is there a way to get space in the interim?
Also have experience with creating a little local record label and booking shows, happy to talk about that too. LPFM stuff was in the 2016 to 2018 timeframe but was based off the 2013 bandwidth, under the FCC leadership of the great Ajit Pai (this comment sponsored by Frontier Communications).