Licensed to non-actual locations

[Dan.Strassberg]

Don't think so. I don't know where WLYN-FM was originally located but,
at some point, the WLYN (AM) tower was replaced with the (present)
taller structure to increase the FM's antenna height. So the FM was
mounted on the AM tower at least at that point. Didn't the FM then
move to the old Channel 7 tower in Medford? And isn't WFNX now atop
One Financial Center across the street from South Station in Boston?

Replacing WLYN (AM)'s tower with the present taller tower had the
incidental effect of increasing the AM's antenna efficiency, which
necessitated the power decrease from 1 kW to the present 700W to
protect WFEA and WDRC.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net>
To: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <Joe@attorneyross.com>; <kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:59 AM
Subject: RE: Licensed to non-actual locations


> Was WUPI/WUPY where WLYN/WFNX(then WLYN-FM) was headed?
>
> -Paul Hopfgarten
> -Derry NH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On
> Behalf Of
> A. Joseph Ross
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:45 PM
> To: kvahey@comcast.net
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> 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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