Radio stations to be located in Waterville?

[Dan.Strassberg]

And the FCC is very strict about allowing CoL changes by stations that
are a community's "only" audio broadcast service. Mostly, the Cookie
Company denies applications for such moves EVEN if the move would
provide a larger community with its first audio broadcast service.
Now, how long has the FCC been so hard-nosed about preventing moves by
a community's sole audio broadcast service? I ask because we may or
may not have a strange case in our midst. Alex Langer was allowed to
move the old WSRO 1470, which, I believe, was the only audio broadcast
service licensed to Marlborough, to Watertown, where (as WAZN) it
became the community's first audio broadcast service. However, WAZN
might (or might not) have been the second station to be granted a CP
to move to Watertown. Before WSRO was granted its CP, WRCA may have
been holding a CP to change its CoL to Watertown. If the WRCA CP
predated the WSRO CP AND the FCC's strict stance on moves of a
community's only audio broadcast service was in force when WSRO was
granted its CP, how did Langer get his application granted?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Radio stations to be located in Waterville?


> <<On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:36:10 -0500, "Doug Drown"
> <revdoug1@verizon.net> said:
>
>> Rick Davis is GM of what I think is still called Mountain Wireless:
>> WSKW
>> (AM) and WFMX (FM) in Skowhegan, and WCTB (FM) which is licensed
>> for some
>> strange reason to Fairfield.
>
> There's nothing strange about WCTB being licensed to Fairfield.[1]
> The
> FCC gives a preference to applications (and allocations rulemakings)
> that represent the "first local service" to a particular community.
> This is interpreted ridiculously literally: a community is said to
> have "local service" if and only if there is another station whose
> community of license is that exact community, down to the spelling.
> (A petitioner must still demonstrate that a proposed community is a
> bona fide "community" as the FCC defines it, but that is not a high
> bar to jump.)  Whether there is another station that *in reality*
> serves that community, or whether the proposed station would
> actually
> do so, is not considered.  (This is related to the way you get
> stations on Cape Cod licensed both to Barnstable and to Hyannis [a
> fire district in Barnstable], or to Harwich and Harwichport.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
> [1] By a curious coincidence, one of my coworkers is from Fairfield.