Re: Latest x-band receptions

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

The rule is five years and it's a joke. There is at least one ex-band
station that has been on the air for more than five years, WWRU (which was
WJDM-EB Elizabeth NJ, but I think is now licensed to Jersey City). The
original WJDM was a daytimer on 1530 licensed to Elizabeth. As far as I
know, WJDM (I think it also has new calls but I don't know what they are)
and WWRU now are separately owned. Clearly, the rule that the standard-band
station would go dark five years after the ex-band station went on the air
never envisioned that the licensee would divest one or the other of the
stations. In this case, I believe that the licensee divested _both_. I don't
recall whether the original owner sold both stations separately or whether
he sold both stations to one new owner and the new owner sold one of them to
a third owner. Regardless, the precendent has been set of not taking the
standard band-station dark. Very few standard-band stations will go dark as
a consequence of putting an ex-band station on the air. Some ex-band
stations will go dark because they can't wait for most people to have radios
that receive ex-band. I think that, so far, only one standard-band station
has gone dark.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron 'Bishop' Read <aread@speakeasy.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: Latest x-band receptions


> At 07:25 AM 2/16/2002 -0800, Adam Rivers wrote:
> >The 1670 I heard appears to ID with a station in the
> >1200s... help!! I DONT GET IT!!!
> >~adam
>
> All stations migrating to the expanded band or "X-band" (1600 to 1700AM)
> are allowed to maintain their original AM frequency for some time to allow
> promos to be played on both frequencies; get the listeners used to going
to
> the new x-band freq.  I think the old one can stay one for one year at
> least after you sign on with the x-band freq. Don't remember the specifics
> off the top of my head.
>
>
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