FM Channel 200 (87.9) after Feb 17

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:51:14 -0500, "Aaron Read" <friedbagels@gmail.com> said:

> The rules still have Channel 200 as pretty restricted for use by FM
> stations.

However, the Commission has made it clear that all television-related
rules are up for revision in 2009, so they may reconsider this policy
as well.

> KSFH got the right largely because of KQED camped out on 88.5, which
> precludes anything else from being on 88.1 or 88.3, and there
> doesn't happen to be any TV6's in the Bay Area or nearby (itself
> pretty unusual).

Sacramento is not enormously far away from Mountain View, and the
channel 6 there, KVIE, is an NCE.

> Hey Scott - how exactly are all those LPTV's managing to get -CA
> (Class A) protected status anyways?  Isn't that kind of against the
> point of LPTV's?

They applied, and made claims about their programming.  The status was
created by Congress, and is open to any LPTV which (claims that it)
meets certain local programming requirements.  (Of course, the entire
LPTV service itself -- as distinguished from translators -- was
created by an earlier Congress.)

-GAWollman