WNNW at sunrise (Was WNNW/WCCM update)

[mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Dan Strassberg wrote:
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>As for WNNW, I think they also violate the terms of their license in the
>winter when sunrise is after 6:00 AM. As a Class B station east of a
>dominant station on on Class A channel, WNNW is not (as far as I know)
>entitled to pre-sunrise authority. I think WNNW (like WILD, for example)
>>is permitted to sign on with full day power (or CH power, if
>>applicable--which it isn't in WNNW's case but is in WILD's) at local
>>sunrise year 'round.

        It appears that WNNW (a Class D station) may operate with PSRA
beginning at 6 a.m. when that is before its local sunrise. The rule says 6
a.m. or sunrise at the nearest Class A station east of the Class D station,
whichever is later. As I read it, that means 6 a.m. for WNNW, because there
is no Class A station to its east. The rules do not say that Class D
stations east of the dominant station do not qualify for PSRA in the way
that there is a statement saying no PSSA for Class D stations west of the
dominant station.

Martin J. Waters

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