Licensed to non-actual locations

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:12:25 -0500, "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com> said:

> That certainly is true in Massachusetts.  When four towns were 
> abolished to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s, their 
> territory was annexed to surrounding towns.

Of course, that is a "can't happen" condition in many other states,
where the state constitution places even more restrictions on special
legislation than the Massachusetts constitution does.  (In
Massachusetts, the General Court can still abolish a town at will, if
I read the Home Rule Amendment correctly; in many other states, this
can only be done with the consent of the voters.)

Canada has seen quite a bit of this with the forcible amalgamation of
cities, in Quebec and Ontario particularly.  I don't know if the CRTC
ever officially ruled on whether amalgamation automatically changed
the stations' communities of license, or if stations must actually
apply for the change.  (Not that they ever identify anyway.)

-GAWollman