Is it time for WTBS to make a comeback on 88.1?

[Scott Fybush]

Kevin Vahey wrote:
> How does the WMBR board feel about this? Obviously these calls would
> be snapped up quickly. Scott would WMBR get first crack at them since
> they were the previous owner?

Nope - once you give up a set of calls, they're out in the wild, as it 
were, for anyone to grab. That's why broadcast owners with lots of 
licenses often "park" calls in small markets if they think they might 
use them again, or if they think the competition might want to grab 
them. WNEW, no longer in use in New York, now resides on a CBS FM 
station outside West Palm Beach. WXRK, during its brief retirement when 
New York's 92.3 became "Free FM," went to Cleveland, only to be returned 
to 92.3 in NYC when Free FM died earlier this year.

Time Warner can't do that with WTBS - channel 17 in Atlanta is its one 
and only broadcast license, so when they change the calls there, the 
"WTBS" callsign will be up for grabs to the first applicant.

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