Re: Stupid move 'GBH (Re: BUR-GBH)

[mwaters@facstaff.wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Peter George wrote:
>    WGBH-FM is a grandfathered Class C FM
>"non-commercial" station.  However, the day they move
>to the WBZ-TV tower, they lose that grandfathering and
>become a run-of-the-mill Class B and also lose a lot
>of coverage area in the process.
>    Why they would want to leave Great Blue Hill is
>beyond me.  Going from 100,000 watts to 20,000 watts
>is st**id.
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     I agree completely, but have some questions. What is their publicly
stated reason for moving thei antenna? Has the news media there covered
this so that the station members, specifically, and the public, generally,
know what's being done? It's supposed to be PUBLIC radio. I'm just an old
pro-regulation fossil, of course, but in my more perfect world the FCC
wouldn't allow this. It's not in the public interest. The present licensee
(remembering they supposedly don't "own" the rights to the assigbment;
they're only renting) shouldn't get to permanently destroy a signal this
way. End of mini-rant.