Who is broadcasting at 87.7

[Jeff Lehmann]

> Don't one or more of the 87.x "FMs" around the country (licensed as
> Channel 6 LPTVs) call themselves "the Beat"? I thought the company
> behind the NYC and Chicago stations was aiming to make "the Beat" its
> national trademark and dance or disco its national format. Of course,
> the FCC then turned around and said that these stations had only six
> months or a year or something like that to live. After that, they will
> have to stop transmitting an analog signal (whose audio can be picked
> up on most standard FM receivers) and convert to digital, which
> probably won't even come in on DTV receivers.

You're thinking of "Pulse 87" which was on the 87.7 in NYC. I believe they
had plans to go on the Chicago and DC 87.7s as well, but it all fell apart,
and even the NYC one has moved on to something else.

Jeff Lehmann
Hanson, MA