WNSH/WPEP

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 12 May 2005 14:54:03 -0400, "Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com> said:

> WSNE is an higher powered FM station which serves a much larger
> audience/area.

FCC rules say that stations serve specific communities, not "much
larger areas".

> No amount of WSNE programming originates from Taunton.

That hasn't been relevant to the FCC in many years.  There are only
two specific[*] requirements for a station to service its community:

1) It must irradiate that community with a specific electric field
intensity a specified number of hours a week.

2) It must mention the name of that community hourly, as close
to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in program material.

-GAWollman

[*] Meaning specific to the community; something that they must do
which relates to that community and not to other communities in the
same market.