WESX FCC oddity

Garrett Wollman wollman@bimajority.org
Sat Jul 19 21:36:32 EDT 2008


I noticed that the FCC database now shows WESX's community of license
(the "comm_city" column in the "facility" table, for those following
at home) as Nahant rather than Salem.  In the past, the FCC has not
updated this field until a license to cover has been granted for a
community change.  But the construction permit was just barely granted
in April, and (as I verified by going there today) WESX is not
operating from Lynn at the moment.  It still identifies (correctly) as
"WESX Salem".

I'm not sure if the FCC has changed its policy, or if it just doesn't
have one.

(I did, for what it's worth, get a new ID from WRCA Watertown.  The
Haitian guy on 1600 still can't be bothered to ID -- is Hoffman too
cheap to buy a timer and just do it automatically? -- and neither did
the iPod on WRBB at 7:00 if anybody there is paying attention.
Finally got WHRB during a classical block.)

-GAWollman


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