[B R-I] Re: W279BQ-103.7 On-Air (Where?); New Pirate On 94.9?

[lglavin@mail.com]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
>To: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>; boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
>Sent: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 10:12 am
>Subject: Re: [B R-I] Re: W279BQ-103.7 On-Air (Where?); New Pirate On 94.9?


>I guess nothing is too absurd for the FCC. Aren't translators supposed 
>to be the most local of local services? If so, in the FCC's Alice in 
>Wonderland world, what could make more sense than to require no local 
>content, no local ID, and no coverage of the CoL? And with so much now 
>invested in translators--mainly by the Religious Right, who have 
>enormous political clout in DC--the likelihood of this absurd 
>situation ever being corrected appears (only a bit optimistically) to 
>be zero. 
 
 Apparently, even the "religious right" stations are beginning to have a hard
 time making a go of it.  Scott mentioned in his latest NERW that WLMW 90.7 FM
 near Manchester, NH and WWNH-AM 1340 in Madbury, NH between Portsmouth
 and Dover have given up the ghost (at least for now; they're still listed as
 active on the FCC website).  Even in Dallas, TX, a sectarian station had to
 give up a significant FM signal in that area, and move to an AM daytimer.
 They didn't have a prayer and pulled the plug this week.  BTW, not ALL 
 "religious" figures in the media are conservative.  The "Reverend" Jim Wallis
 is the official preacher man of the Stephanie Miller show.