do people know AM still exists?

[Dan.Strassberg]

What was CHWO (now CFZM or something like that) was not, technically,
a new station. It moved from a Class B on what? (1350?) licensed to
what? (Oshawa? Oakville?) to the Class A 740 channel in (nearby)
Toronto. Something similar happened in Montreal. When the CBC's 690
and 940 (both Class As) went dark, what had been CFCF moved from 600
to 940 and (IIRC) CKVL (which had been licensed to a Montreal
suburb--Verdun?--moved from 850 to 690). CBJ was eventually replaced
on 1580 by CKDO, albeit not in CBJ's old CoL of Chicoutami. Will one
of the commercial Windsor AMs move to 1550 to replace CBE? CBE was a
very rare Class A AM operating with less than 50 kW. I know of only
one other such station in the US or Canada--KNZR 1560 in Bakersfield
CA.

Anyhow, the CRTC seems to want the few remaining Canadian AMs (nearly
all of which are in large cities where FM allocations are scarce or
nonexistent) to move to vacated frequencies where they can improve
their facilities.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
Cc: "bostonRadio Mailing List"
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:33 PM
Subject: RE: do people know AM still exists?


> On 9 Jan 2009 at 18:56, Sid Schweiger wrote:
>
>> AM is dying in Canada because the government wants it that way.
>> One
>> could argue, I suppose, that the way FCC regulates radio in the US
>> has
>> effectively marginalized AM, but at least here there's no specific
>> government policy to kill AM.
>>
>> Canada is gradually moving all radio programming to FM stations and
>> taking the AMs down permanently, although they remain "notified" to
>> the other North American countries for treaty purposes and
>> interference calculations.
>
> So how come a new station was allowed to go on 740 after CBL moved
> to
> FM?
>
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