Re: One Tower, Two (or more) States

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

You heard wrong. According to the FCC AM database, WWRV is licensed to New
York City, NY. This was also the case when the station was WNYM, WPOW, and
WEVD. The old WBBR 1330 (no relation to the current WBBR 1130) IDed as WBBR
Brooklyn, I believe. That was before the TX move to Staten Island. I don't
know how the station IDed after that. But both Brooklyn and Staten Island
are part of New York City. (New Jersey's grievances over Staten Island
notwithstanding--at least so far.) Under current FCC rules, the studio
location is irrelevant. The studios could be in New London CT because WFAN
delivers 5 mV/m to New London. As I understand the rules, a station may
locate its studios in any community where at least one station in the same
band with the same COL delivers a city-grade signal.

You gotta believe that Jacor (now part of AMFM) was behind that weird rule.
I believe that WLW delivers a city-grade signal to Columbus. For sure, it
does so in Dayton. Jacor, which owned a large portion of all of the radio
stations in Ohio, was thus able, if it desired, to locate the studios for
close to half of those stations in Cincinnati.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>
To: Dan Strassberg <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: Sptseditor@aol.com <Sptseditor@aol.com>;
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Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: One Tower, Two (or more) States


>
>Last I heard, WWRV is licenced to Paterson, NJ (and that's where their
>studios are based).
>