Well there are LPFM (Low Power FM) stations and there are translators. The latter cannot originate programming, but can relay another station. There are a bunch of translators that relay religious programming, for example. Some FM translators can relay things like AM talk stations—like
W235AV in “Tatnuck MA” which relays WTAG 580 (200 watts or so, antenna 700 ft up)
An LPFM example:
WLLO-LP 102.9 Londonderry NH (Londonderry public schools) which has about 100 watts. I believe LPFMs cannot run commercials. A translator can.
In Burlington VT “The Radiator” is an LPFM: WOMM-LP 105.9, owned by the Peace and Justice Ctr (how Burlington is that...) while W207AX 89.3 in Burlington VT is a translator, relaying KEAR out in CA, and owned by Family Radio.
The latter is probably a good example of a “church station”.
I don’t know if Clemons would be able to get his station back on as an LPFM but if so he couldn’t run commercials!
Pretty sure his ILLEGAL operation ran commercials too
(they claimed to have the call letters WTCH-LP...but were not an LPFM!)
It can be very hard to get a LPFM license but with some political backing from favored lackeys like Patrick, it should be possible for the station to go legit.
I remember doing a lot of work in VA and NC in the 1990’s. Driving along the Jeff Davis Highway, just about every local Baptist church had an LPFM station frequency on its roadside billboard. Good for them, I say.