Spring Arbs Shockers

[Scott Fybush]

SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>  A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> 
>> Are people still applying for new AM stations?  If so, I wonder why.
> 
> 
> Dunno if the station has made it to the air yet, but Bob Vinikoor spent 
> many years and $$$$$$ on lawyers fees getting zoning permits to put up a 
> tower site for a highly directional 720 in the Lebanon, N.H. area.

The FCC is still sorting through the literally THOUSANDS of applications 
it received the last time it opened a window for new AM station 
applications and major changes to existing facilities. That was in early 
2004, and it will yield at least a hundred new AMs when it's all over.

SOMEBODY still wants all those signals, whether it's speculation about 
the future value HD might bring or the "greater fool" theory in action - 
or simply the desire to get on the air for (possibly) a little less than 
it would cost to buy an existing station, for which prices have remained 
very high.

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