Re: WYDN/48 (was Re: WMFP/WYDN)

["Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

HI Garrett (and crew):
     What about the informercials seen on 48?  This IS
supposed to be an "non-commercial, educational"
station.  And what about "local origination"?  Are
they skirting the rules somewhat? I see no local
programming on WYDN, just the Daystar fare.  Any
thoughts?

-Pete



--- Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> <<On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:25:09 -0800 (PST), "Peter Q.
> George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com> said:
> 
> > One big question, where is the studio?
> 
> So far as anyone has been able to figure out, WYDN's
> studios are
> located in the Armstrong building in Paxton.
> 
> > The rules are
> > that you MUST have a studio within a specified
> > distance within the City of License (Worcester).
> 
> Not so.  The rules are that you must have a studio
> within the
> principal community contour of some station licensed
> to the same
> community.  (The rules previously were that you had
> to have a studio
> within *the station's* principal community contour,
> but the NAB
> considered this too onerous and so the rules were
> changed.)  They
> don't even have to have common ownership.  (As a
> result, any of the
> NYC stations could, if they wanted to, move their
> main studios to New
> Haven.)
> 
> > Where is their public file?  Good question.
> 
> Probably also in Paxton.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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