Bayview MA

[Mike Ward]

Several stations in California are licensed to "Census Designated Places".

KSTE/650 Rancho Cordova, a suburban Sacramento station which may have
featured my voice from time to time in the 1990s :)

There are any number of Sacramento stations licensed to CDPs which appear
to the world as suburbs, but are unincorporated areas of Sacramento County
- Fair Oaks, Natomas, North Highlands, etc.

I don't know when the FCC stopped using CDPs as license-ready "cities". An
AM CP (890) was licensed to Citrus Heights (now a city), but is now
licensed to Olivehurst, a city north of Sacramento in the Yuba-Sutter area.

Despite being "suburbs", all of the above CDPs would easily pass the Tuck
test.




On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Dave Doherty <dave@skywaves.net> wrote:

> I think this is why the Census Bureau has a special category called "New
> England Towns."
>
> New York has some of the same complications. Saranac Lake is a Village with
> a county line running through it. So it includes parts of two counties and
> two towns.  To add to the complications for the FCC, one county is in an
> Arbitron market and the other is not.  Yikes!
>
> -d
>
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> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: Bayview MA
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> On 9/11/2013 1:19 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> > Well, except for the minor issue that Massachusetts has no such thing
> > as a "village".
> >
> > In the case of the Barnstable "villages", they are all fire districts,
> > and may have other aspects of municipal government as well.  In
> > Newton, they're just administratively designated districts that
> > approximately coincide with historic postal zones.
>
> We do have villages, but they are completely unofficial and undefined.
> Chestnut Hill actually consists of parts of Brookline, Newton, and West
> Roxbury, and the only thing it seems to have in common is a zip code.
>
> At one time in Massachusetts, a village had its own town green and
> Congregational Church.  As population grew, these villages eventually
> became
> incorporated as towns.  Anherst has a couple of villages like that.  South
> Amherst has a town green and a Congregational Church.  I'm not sure whether
> North Amherst has a town green.  If it does, it's not as obvious, but it
> does have a Congregational Church.  I'm not sure how a town the size of
> Amherst manages to support three churches of the same denomination, but it
> does.  There's another "village" in Amherst called "Cushman," but I've
> never
> figured out where it is.  Probably there's no green or church there.
>
> Other towns in Western Massachusetts have villages, whose legal status is
> unclear.  Turners Falls is a village of Montague.  Leeds and Florence are
> villages of the City of Northampton.
>
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