Re: new FM allocations?

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

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Clear Channel's move of WCHO 1250
Washington Courthouse OH to 700 somewhere in eastern NC. That's a lot longer
distance than WRPT's move. Moreover, in WCHO's case, _three_ stations were
involved in a hearing. WCBM Baltimore had an application to increase to 50
kW-D/20 kW-N denied. Another daytimer, WWTL 700 Walkersville MD, was granted
a change in COL and increase to 25 kW-D (with the clear intent of serving
DC), and WCHO's application was granted (as far as I know). WCBM was
supposedly losing its Tx site and had to move further west, increase power,
and build a six-tower array to deliver an equivalent signal into Baltimore.
Somehow, the FCC wasn't moved by this argument.

As for 1590 in the Merrimac Valley, haven't you forgotten about 1590 in
Nashua? IIRC, Nashua is part of the Merrimac Valley. Also, 750 wouldn't work
in Essex County or southern NH because of WJIB and WVNE. 1470 on Cape Anne
_used_ to exist. It moved to 1450 to make room for WSRO's early 1980s power
increase. Regardless of which of Alex Langer's two proposals for WSRO is
built, 1470 on Cape Anne appears to be impossible. (I believe that Langer
holds a CP for 7 kW-D/5 kW-N DA-2 from Hudson, but his proposed move to the
WAMG site with 1 kW-D/3.4 kW-N DA-2 seems more likely.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Jibguy@aol.com <Jibguy@aol.com>
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2001 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: new FM allocations?


><<On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 23:20:23 EDT, Jibguy@aol.com said:
>
>> The FCC has, for many years, not allowed any NEW daytime AM
>> stations.  Getting a full-timer on the air would be very difficult.
>> As far as daytimers go, a few could fit in, but the FCC says "no" to
>> all of those.
>
>But, as we have seen with Alex Langer, the FCC is perfectly willing to
>make major changes to daytimers including moving stations a hundred
>miles or more, changing frequency, parameters, and community of
>license simultaneously -- as happened with WRPT.
>
>It's not hard to imagine relocating some small class-D AM like the
>1000 in Leominster or the 700 in Orange, in moving to to (say)
>Salisbury or Rockport.  750 would seem an obvious choice of frequency,
>but I don't know how much of a factor Leominster would be.  1180 could
>have been a possibility, but I'm guessing that would be precluded by
>the upgrade of 1200.  1470 might work on Cape Ann, perhaps even as a
>full-timer, if directional away from Lewiston and Newburyport.  1590
>might be a possibility in the Merrimack Valley, since Gorham is no
>more, provided one could stay out of the way of WUNR.
>
>-GAWollman
>
>