WKFD 1370 Ri (deformatted)

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Fybush" 
>To: madprof@ix.netcom.com
>Subject: Re: WKFD 1370 Ri (deformatted)
>Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:54:11 -0400


Robert F. Sutherland wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has knowledge? Apparently the WKFD call was 
> not otherwise reserved?
> Is ASTRO TELE-COMMUNICATIONS CORP intending Block Island & the 
> rest of coverage is by chance? Do they own any other stations?

>The new 1370 was applied for during the last window for major AM 
>changes and new AM stations. Under current rules, you can't apply 
>for a new daytimer, as the old WKFD was, and any new station has to 
>provide considerably greater protection to other occupants of the 
>channel (primarily, in this case, WFEA, WALK and WNRI, but also 
>WLYN, WDRC, WINY, WNBH, WPLM and WHTB) than the old WKFD's 
>grandfathered signal did.
>s
It's amazing that an operation in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
would have to worry these days about first-, second-, and even
third-frequency separation over dozens and dozens of miles, while
WAZN-AM 1470 blithely plops itself down in the midst of what was once 
the reasonably decent coverage area of the former WBET-AM 1460 in Brockton!
I know WAZN is uber-directional, but still...


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