RE: WJLT at night (Was RE: WCBS off time...)

[Adam Rivers <patriotsrule417@yahoo.com>]

I already complained to the FCC after I got them
several times in a week. They said there's nothing
they can (or will) do unless WBT files a complaint.

~adam

--- Keith Fornal <kfornal@loa.com> wrote:
> I've been getting a similar problem on 1110 here in
> Rhode Island.  It
> seems like WPMZ 1110 in East Providence "forgets" to
> turn it's
> transmitter off on some nights.  Tonight as I type
> this, the station is
> broadcast in 5,000 watts of dead air once again on
> 1110.  This is the
> 3rd or 4th time I have noticed this in the past
> month.  I first noticed
> this while driving on I-195 towards Providence from
> SE Mass and noticed
> that there was some building interference on WBZ,
> which normally comes
> in as a local here, day & night.  WBT 1110 normally
> comes in here when
> WPMZ remembers to turn their transmitter off at
> sunset.  The station has
> had run-ins with both the FCC and WBT for several
> years of illegal
> nighttime operation with 250 watts.
> 
> Should I complain?  If so, to whom?  Will anyone
> care or do anything
> about it?
> 
> 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 Martin
> J. Waters
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:59 AM
> To: Garrett Wollman
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WJLT at night (Was RE: WCBS off
> time...)
> 
> >Mr. Wollman wrote:
> >I took the liberty of forwarding your note to WSM's
> CE, who is
> >probably the only person whose complaints the Funny
> Cookie Commission
> >is likely to listen to these days.  They still
> probably won't do
> >anything.
> 
>     With the clear channel stations, that is always
> someone who might
> care.
> The WTIC (AM) / KRLD combination DX test and silent
> period for
> maintenance
> a couple months ago was partly, on the part of the
> WTIC CE, to try to
> figure out where interfering signals are coming
> from. It's actually an
> issue for them in their primary coverage area, with
> people complaining
> they
> can't get the station well enough.
> 
>     A few years ago I had the opposite experience
> during my one-person
> campaign to get the now-gone-to-FM station on 1110
> kHz in Ontario (just
> over the Michigan border; COL escapes me now) to
> stop leaving its day
> power
> on all night, wiping out WBT over much of eastern
> North America. I wrote
> to
> the FCC, with copies to the WBT CE, and never heard
> from him.
> 
>     Making a very long story very short: Because
> that station was a
> Canadian, the complaint went to the international
> office of the FCC
> instead
> of the regular "enforcement" division. They
> contacted the Canadian
> regulators. Although many Canadian stations do the
> thing with ignoring
> night pattern/power, the Canadian enforcement
> actually still takes
> itself
> seriously, at least when a formal case is presented.
> The station quit
> its
> violations. I was quite happy with the outcome, but
> I still wonder
> whether
> a similar complaint against a U.S. station would
> have gotten such a good
> result.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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