fm_contour

Parsing FCC FM Contour data towards getting political alignment per NPR member station service area

Procedure

1. Parse contour data to GeoDataFrames

2. Area weighted averaging

Data

state="wa"
data/$(state)_2020.shp # contains precinct level voting data
# G20PREDBID = Biden Vote
# G20PRERTRU = Trump Vote

data/FM_service_contour_current.txt # contains data on NPR station service areas

Links

Precinct and Voting data

https://redistrictingdatahub.org/dataset/2020-national-precinct-boundary-shapefile/

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JXPREB

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/K7760H

Contour data

https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/fm_service_contour_data/FM_service_contour_current.zip

https://publicradioatlas.org/index.html

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-service-contour-data-points

https://github.com/battamer/FMap