Re: 96.9

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

Mike Fitzpatrick writes:

> It would be nice though if the 97.1 and 105.3 translators of WPVQ
out here
> where shut off. It used to be nice to listen to my local news from
Berkshire
> County on WBEC, 105.5 fm when it came in. I personally think these
are the
> two most useless translators Ive ever heard in my opinion (well,
except for
> all those satellite fed ones out in Central New York ). Their
signal is
> stronger than some of the full power ones it seems, and the
station they
> repeat comes in very clear in the cities of licenses which they
are licensed
> to.

A great example of a distorting of the spirit of the thing called a
translator.  To fill out a null, topographical issues, etc., but to
grab a sub-market?  Is that what Uncle Charlie had in mind?

Bill O'Neill

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