WSMN Gets Extension Thru March 2008

[Dan.Strassberg]

Highly unlikely that WSMN will be shut down. Stations have operated 
under STA for decades. KOB--during all of the legal machinations that 
attended its operation on 770--did so for at least 30 years, I'd 
guess. WNYC (AM) did from the early '40s until it found a new home on 
820 in the late 80s, I believe. And those are but two that come to 
mind. More recently and around here, what was then WSRO operated under 
STA for four or five years and its successor, WAZN, also did so for a 
couple of years. Before that, what is now WBIX operated under STA from 
1981 until it went dark in what, 1993? STA's may not be forever, but 
they tend to run longer than broadcast licenses, which, under current 
rules, must be renewed every eight years.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: WSMN Gets Extension Thru March 2008


I haven't been over to the WUNR/WRCA/WKOX transmitter site on Sawmill 
Brook
Parkway since July, but I suspect there are vehicles there right now 
(even on
a rainy day) as engineers prepare the site for its two new occupants 
(WRCA
and WKOX) and changes for a longtime tenant, WUNR.  As far as the 
latter is
concerned, any testing to be done will be based on the assumption that
Nashua, NH's WSMN-AM 1590  will someday resume operations with its 
licensed
facility, 5,000 watts DA-1 from just west of NH route 3.  But right 
now,
it's operating with a temporary STA (I know, the Dept. of Superfluous 
Redundancy
Dept. will say STA's by definition are temporary) of about 200 watts 
until a new
permanent array can be built.  I checked the WSMN entry at fcc.gov's 
website and
it includes correspondence from mid-August that allows WSMN to 
maintain its current
facilities until no later than next March.  The letter assumes that 
Absolute
Broadcasting is making a legitimate effort to find a new site and 
build the
requisite array.  As Bob the furniture guy says, I doubt it.  (Also,
it appears to me that the FCC believes that WSMN is transmitting from 
W. Hollis St
and not from the AM 900 tower on Pine Street in downtown Nashua.) If 
WSMN
doesn't get its act together and start running 5KW DA-1 by next 
spring, could
the gummint shut them down until they do?  Or could they apply for 
some NDA
operation similar to what they're doing now, giving WUNR an 
opportunity to emit a
little more juice in a northwesterly direction?

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