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[Bob DeMattia]

Do any of these station do any off-air advertising?  People who are
listening to the station already know how to find it.
There might be a small advantage to letting them know about the AM, but
off-air and where you are trying to get non-listeners
to find your signal.



On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:

>
> Well, WTSN in Dover, NH now identifies itself solely as "Newstalk 981
> WTSN", making no mention of AM 1270; but the AM is most definitiely still
> on the air, and the AM and FM are 100% simulcast, as per the rules.
>
> I believe Binnie's AM in Laconia, WEMJ, is similarly calling itself "WEMJ
> 107.3" even though it's simulcasting AM 1490.
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Don wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>>       I wonder if at some point, the FCC will let stations turn off
>>       the AM and just keep the translator going.
>>
>>
>>
>> Two stations that I know of, have abandoned any identification with the
>> AM.
>>
>> WCCM, 1110AM in Salem, NH is now "Valley 98.9" and if you listen, you
>> would
>> never know they are listenable on AM.
>>
>> http://valley989.com/
>>
>> WMRC in Milford in now simply identified as MY 101.3
>>
>> http://www.wmrcdailynews.com/www.myfm1013.com/
>>
>> Both stations have dropped any local service that they were doing when
>> they
>> were just AM stations.
>>
>> I'm not sure this is what the FCC had in mind.....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>       On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>>             I wonder if at some point, the FCC will let stations
>>             turn off the AM and just keep the translator going.
>>
>>
>>       All of the AM's I work with have much greater ranges than their
>>       translators. Take, for example, Alex Langer's WSRO 650 AM. I was
>>       listening to it in Lebanon, NH this morning. The FM translator
>>       is 40 watts, and covers just Framingham and the immedtarely
>>       surrounding towns. Alex has a CP to move it to Waltham and give
>>       it a modest power increase, but it will never match even WSRO's
>>       nighttime coverage.
>>
>>
>>       Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>