Re: WHEB/WPFM

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 01:07 PM 5/28/97 +0000, you wrote:
>On 28 May 1997 at 3:06 a.m., you wrote:
>
>>Pretty amazing that the would turn in the lisence, isn't it.  What's
>>even more strange is that no one else has applied for it....no one else
>>wants it.  Actually it's pretty sad.
>
>Not a matter of no one wanting it. It's a matter where the FCC does no
>longer hand out daytime-only AM licenses. That is what WHEB-AM was until
>its signoff. Besides, with the new 720 in Hanover, N.H., it would be hard
>in my assumption to squeeze another signal in on 750.
>
What I forgot to say in my last post to this thread is that, when WHEB
turned in its license, it made room for WVNE to increase its power. Aside
from the apparent inability to get nighttime authorization for a Portsmouth
station on 750, anyone who attempted to resurrect WHEB would, at best, have
to propose a station with a deep null toward Worcester in its daytime
pattern (not to mention another null to the south to protect WJIB--I think
that the original CP for WTAO back in the 40s was conditioned on acceptance
of prohibited overlap from WHEB--and WHEB must also have accepted the
overlap; today, the FCC would not agree to that). The result would be a
station directionalized out to the northeast--along the coast. If not
serving the population to the south and west was of no concern, and there
was a way to provide night service, then someone willing to spend a fortune
to lose his or her shirt would be welcome to try. The first challenge: find
a suitable TX site. 

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