Re: American Family trumps NPR?

["Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>]

"Bill O'Neill" "wrote:

>MSNBC is reporting today that American Family Radio was awarded a 90.5
>FM in Lafayette, LA, bouncing off NPR's 90.5 Lake Charles, LA
>translator serving 70K potential audience.  The story describes FCC
>rules that say a "full-power station" can take over (what appears to
>be in this story) a translator.  In this case, American Family Radio
>apparantly forced two NPR translators to go dark by putting on a
>station on that frequency in Lafayette, LA.  Counter-moves are
>expected.

The Wall Street Journal had the same story on the front page today.