1430 WKOX MA relocated transmitter site?
A Joseph Ross
joe@attorneyross.com
Thu Feb 11 02:36:20 EST 2021
And sometimes they do revive those allocations. For example, when CBL
Toronto shut down on 740, it wasn't long before someone came along and
put a new station on 740, even using the former CBL transmitter.
On 2/8/2021 12:07 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:28:18 -0800, "Dave Doherty" <dave@skywaves.net> said:
>
>> Canada has deleted many AM stations without officially notifying the
>> FCC, and so we must protect these ghost stations. It seems that they
>> may be holding these allotments in reserve, perhaps for new stations
>> serving First Nations and immigrant communities.
> I suspect it has more to do with institutional memory and domestic
> cultural policy: they assume that the US will consume whatever
> resources they give us, so they err on the side of never giving us
> anything unless they get something in return. We saw this with the TV
> repack: they got additional channels set aside as a sweetener to go
> along with the whole process. (And the repack probably wouldn't have
> been feasible without Canadian cooperation, given the long strings of
> moves involving stations on this side of the border.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
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