Licensed to non-actual locations

[kvahey@comcast.net]

In the midwest it is always warmer on the west side of Lake Michigan
so maybe the same applies. :)  There are some that consider Lake
Champlain to be the 6th Great Lake.

There has been some flack in Quebec as in the past few weeks Boston
net stations have appeared where Burlington and Plattsburgh channels
are supposed to be. I only found this out when a friend at the
Montreal Gazette emailed me wanting to know who the drunk guy with the
arm sling doing sports was on CBS.

He lives on the south shore in Greenwood Park. He says the Boston HD
signal is much better than Vermont.

On 2/1/08, Paul Hopfgarten <paul@derrynh.net> wrote:
> Any else notice the bizarre Time/Weather continuum up there?
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> 30 and Freezing Rain in Burlington, 19 and Snow in Montreal.but 69 and Clear
> in the tropical paradise of Plattsburgh
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Vahey
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:53 AM
> To: Scott Fybush
> Cc: Dan.Strassberg; boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations
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> The FOX44 website is pretty clear on the matter.
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> http://www.fox44.net/z-home.htm
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> Nothing beats 94.7 in Chateaugay NY. Call letters are WYUL ( the
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> Look at their website as there is no hint that it is a US based station
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> http://www.947hits.com/
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> On 2/1/08, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> wrote:
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> > Doug Drown wrote:
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> > > <<The FOX station in Burlington/Plattsburgh has used Montreal in the ID
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> > > I was curious about whether that could be done, given CRTC regulations.
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> > > think it was because of the CRTC that RKO General was forced to sell
> CKLW a
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> > > short time before the company itself disbanded: an American company
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> > > own a Canadian broadcasting station.  I wondered whether CKLW could
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> > > to brand itself "CKLW Detroit/Windsor" after that, and whether,
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> > > American stations that are adjacent to the border can include the names
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> > > Canadian communities in their ID's.
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> > The CRTC has no regulatory authority over US stations, so if WFFF wants
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> > to call itself "Burlington/Plattsburgh/Montreal," what could Canada do
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> > about it? (Other than pull it off cable, but that would be a nuclear
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> > attack on a gnat, in terms of proportional response.)
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> > There are a handful of US radio stations that target primarily Canadian
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> > audiences - WTOR Youngstown NY, a daytimer on 770 directly across Lake
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> > Ontario from Toronto, is one; WCHL 760 Champlain NY, south of Montreal,
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> > is another - and as long as they meet their US regulatory
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> > responsibilities (main studio, public file, EAS, legal ID), the FCC
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> > doesn't care where their programming is aimed.
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