Today's LTAR Part 2:

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

On today's LTAR, a comment was made about the 1530 station (WVBF) in Middleboro,
MA going nights with TWO watts.  The reason for this was attributed to a 
relaxation of the distances from clear channel or quasi-clear channel
(not the Corporation) radio stations for nighttime operation.  Lately, when travelling
on Route 128 at night, I've picked up a local-sounding signal on 650, but never
a station ID.  I believe it's the Langer outlet in Ashland (I forget the calls;
one night it was a bass-fishing show that Langer promotes.)  It's a
known fact that AM 650 has a CP at least for nighttime operation, which brings 
up the subject of the defunct AM 750 in Portsmouth, NH.  One day on
LTAR, the Jibguy said that when WHEB turned in the license for WHEB-AM,
no one could apply to replace it because the FCC wasn't taking any daytime
applications, and Portsmouth is too close to Atlanta for a nighttime operation.
But Ashland, Ma is closer to Nashville than Portsmouth is to Atlanta,
so it seems to me that a new or existing station in the Seacoast region could
in fact apply for day-and-night operation on 750 (remembering always not to
configure the facility so that it interferes with WJIB).
Am I right?

Laurence Glavin



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