RE: Latest x-band receptions

["Keith Fornal" <kfornal@loa.com>]

The FCC website says that the license for the original station can be
turned in then reapplied for, even by the original owner.  From the FCC
Expanded Band Fact Sheet:

"Once my expanded band facility is built, may I surrender in my existing
band license and then apply to use my old existing band frequency?

Yes. An expanded band licensee may surrender its existing band license
for cancellation once the expanded band station is licensed. The new
station application specifying the "old" existing band frequency must
satisfy current existing band allocations criteria. The FCC Form 301
application would be subject to competing applications and petitions to
deny."

Keith Fornal
Treasurer
Dutch Island Lighthouse Society
www.dutchislandlighthouse.org


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of Dan
Strassberg
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:50 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; Aaron 'Bishop' Read
Subject: Re: Latest x-band receptions

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.

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

----- 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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