Licensed to non-actual locations

[Doug Drown]

Thanks, Scott and Dave.
BTW, why WAS WPTZ licensed to North Pole, New York??  A publicity gimmick?
---And--- If they wished, could WPTZ, WCAX and WVNY include Montreal in
their station ID's?  (I'm thinking of WGME in Portland, which often ID's
itself as Portland/Lewiston --- but obviously Lewiston is still in Maine,
and in the U.S.)

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Doherty" <dave@skywaves.net>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>; "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>;
<kvahey@comcast.net>
Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations


> Hi Doug-
>
> The old radio rule was that the main studio had to be located within the
> principal community contour of the station. That's what originally allowed
> WGY to be located in Niskayuna and WSRS to be located in Paxton.
>
> On another thread, somebody mentioned WPTZ-TV, licensed to North Pole, NY,
> but with studios in Plattsburgh. Roughly the same concept applies,
although
> in TV Land, the principal community is called the City of License.
>
> The current radio rules allow for the main studio to be located within the
> principal community contour (5mv/m day for AM, 70dbu for FM) of ANY
station
> licensed to the same community.  There is also a 25 mile rule that allows
> the main studio to be located that far from the community. There are
several
> cases of stations that cannot be heard at their studios as a result.
>
> There are proposals on the table right now that would require that the
> studios be located in the principal community.
>
> -Dave Doherty
>  Skywaves, Inc.
>  97 Webster Street
>  Worcester, MA 01603
>  508-425-7176
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
> To: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>; <kvahey@comcast.net>
> Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations
>
>
> > This brings up another question in my mind, having to do with
broadcasting
> > stations that are ID'd in one community yet are actually located in a
> > different municipality altogether.  I'll use two examples:  WTAG and
WGY.
> > The former used to have its studios in Worcester; they're now in Paxton.
> > The latter used to have its studios in Schenectady; they were later in
> > Niskayuna, then Colonie (which is in a different county), now they're
back
> > in Niskayuna.  And yet the two stations are still ID'd as WTAG Worcester
> > and
> > WGY Schenectady, respectively.  Is this permitted only because they're
> > grandfathered?    -Doug
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Scott Fybush" <scott@fybush.com>
> > To: <kvahey@comcast.net>
> > Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>;
> > <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: Licensed to non-actual locations
> >
> >
> >> kvahey@comcast.net wrote:
> >> > Has anybody in New York IDed themselves as Brooklyn or Queens and not
> >> > NYC itself? Could they use a boro name istead of New York?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I raised this question earlier in the thread. There is one station
> >> licensed specifically to "Brooklyn," Kingsborough Community College's
> >> WKRB, and one licensed to "Staten Island," Staten Island U.'s WSIA.
> >>
> >> s
> >
> >
> >
>