new FM allocations?

["Bob Nelson...WMWM" <bobonradio@yahoo.com>]

Tonight (Sat. nite) at 10 pm, I drove from Beverly to
Gloucester along the coast (Rt. 127) and there was
an 89.3 pirate on (not sure if it was the same one
as last night). Then, at midnight, I drove back to
Beverly via Rt. 128 and found that the signal
was strong in Gloucester, weaker in Manchester-by-the-
Sea, and just about gone by Beverly. Unless I was
picking up some Maine station from across the
water, it probably was a pirate (it was playing
some R&B/soul and rap.)

Got me thinking: that 89.3 frequency would be a nice
home for a non-comm on the North Shore-- Beverly,
Salem, etc. Maybe someday someone will go to the
FCC and suggest an FM allocation be made there,
and I'm sure a college or high school in the area
may be interested in it (Gordon, North Shore, 
Montserrat, etc.) But then again, I'm not sure that
the FCC would allocate the frequency.

Which leads me to wonder: are there any FM (or AM)
frequencies in the Boston area which are allocated
to certain towns but nobody ever put a station on
there? Or, if the FCC got a proposal to allocate
a frequency, would they act on such an idea? I mean,
if some people who wanted to establish a non-comm
station on the North Shore would go to the FCC
saying 89.3 could be a good frequency, would they
act? Maybe, maybe not...Somehow I get the idea
that the FCC doesn't want to allocate any more
frequencies in this area, and we know how Low Power
FM is not really going anywhere at the moment...

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