Re: Simulcast question

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:33:54 -0500 (EST) Garrett Wollman
<wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
> <<On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:07:07 -0800, "pete lee" 
> <sunshine@angelfire.com> said:
> 
> >  Before WBCS and WKLB merged their country formats, they ran what
> >  Garrett then-called an "illegal simulcast" for a month or two. Is
> >  this practice indeed illegal? I just discovered a similar 
> situation
> >  Sunday...
> 
> I do not know if the rules still probihit it -- quite possibly not.
> It did use to be the case, however, that simulcasting was prohibited
> between two stations *in the same band* whose contours substantially
> overlapped.
> 
> -GAWollman

It's been a very long time since I've heard of the FCC putting their foot
down on simulcasting....IIRC the old rules also had to do with market
size, smaller markets could legally simulcast, usually an AM & FM combo
while the largers ones could not,  It's been a while so I may not be
remembering correctly.
df