[BC] How the KOB decision affected WABC

[ACN]

Very interesting material.   Where does the old KXA Seattle fit into all of 
this.   They were daytime on 770 for years while the KOB case was being 
settled.

TR
ACN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg at att.net>
To: <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
Cc: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: [BC] How the KOB decision affected WABC


> Mark Durenberger wrote about former Class D AMs on 770 that he thinks now
> interfere more with WABC than they did when KOB was fighting to have WABC
> downgraded to a Class II.
>
> Mark mentioned Minneapolis, St Louis, and Miles City.
>
> I don't think Miles city arrived until after all of the former Class IA
> channels had been opened to Class II fulltime stations, but as for KUOM 
> and
> WEW, they are both still daytimers. KUOM runs 5 kW-D ND-D, and like all
> Class B daytimers on ex-IA channels, I presume that it signs on at New 
> York
> sunrise--probably with with 500W. I think it was licensed for 5 kW well
> before the KOB case was finally decided, which means well before the
> breakdown of the IA channels. WEW may still be operating with 1 kW-D, the
> facilities it has had for many decades. In January 2004, WEW applied for
> (and has since been granted) a CP for 10 kW-D/205W-N DA-2. I don't know
> whether the improved facilities are on the air yet. I gather that the 
> owner,
> Birach Broadcasting, opted for the low night power because any more power
> would have necessitated a change in the station class to Class B. With 
> such
> a change would have come the requirement to deliver an NIF signal to at
> least 80% of St Louis. That would have greatly increased the cost of the
> project--assuming that a suitable night site could even have been found. 
> It
> is interesting to note that WEW's 10-kW D pattern protects only WBBM; 
> there
> is no critical-hours protection to WABC. So yes, when WEW's new signal 
> goes
> on the air, WABC may suffer a small amount of new daytime-skywave
> interference, but its hard to ascribe that to the KOB decision--except to
> the extent that the KOB decision was an antecedent of the breakdown of all
> of the ex-IA channels.
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