Licensed to non-actual locations

[Paul Hopfgarten]

Was WUPI/WUPY where WLYN/WFNX(then WLYN-FM) was headed?

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

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A. Joseph Ross
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:45 PM
To: kvahey@comcast.net
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Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations

On 30 Jan 2008 kvahey@comcast.net wrote:

> I am reminded of the ill fated WXPO Channel 50 that was licensed to
> Manchester but never had as much as a PO Box there. The station was
> based in Lowell but the FCC would not approve a second COL so 70
> percent of programming had to come from the transmitter in Windham
> which was less than 15 air miles from Manchester. In the long run it
> didn't matter as we couldn't pick up the signal in Lowell as the
> transmitter was poorly designed. The defacto owner of the station Neil
> Cortel argued with the FCC that 50 should be a Lowell outlet but.
> 
> Still ranks as the greatest fiasco in Boston area broadcasting.

I don't know, I think it is surpassed by WUPY/WUPI, Peabody.

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