[BC] Sign of the times?

[Mike McCarthy]

It's the 70dBu contour which is the city grade contour the FCC defines for 
community of license coverage and main studio location.

MM

At 07:57 AM 10/5/2005 -0500, Dan Walthers1 at sbcglobal.net wrote
>The rules say you have to maintain a main studio, full time staff, and a
>person with substantial administrative presents within the:
>
>1.      City of license, or
>2.      The 60 dbu contour, or
>3.      Within 25 mile radius of the city of license.
>
>The public file must be up to date and available for inspection by the
>public at the main studio location during business hours.  There must be a
>telephone number which can be reach by anyone in the city of license without
>incurring long distance charges, (It does not have to ring at the main
>studio, it just has to be free to any one in the city of license.)
>
>The full time staff can be one employee and a part-timer.
>The substantial administrative presents means someone in management that
>actually has some say so over day to day operations and programming of the
>station.
>The studio must be capable of originating broadcasts...it doesn't have to
>unless an inspector wants to see...but it must be capable over-riding
>programming provided by any other source and going on the air.
>
>There may be some more areas that I missed, but these are the basics.  If
>the station does not meet the above criteria they are likely to be in
>violation of the Commissions Main Studio rules.
>
>Dan
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mark Bulla
>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:01 AM
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Subject: [BC] Sign of the times?
>
>  From the DCRTV (www.dcrtv.org/mailbag.html) website:
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Is it now possible to run a radio station without any studio or offices?
>The reason I ask is because the offices for WDMV seemed to have disappeared
>from Random Hills Road in Fairfax. Their phone (703) 934-6300 has been
>disconnected and all of the numbers listed now are cell phone numbers. When
>I tried to buy time, the person I talked to said they would come to my
>office, but wouldn't meet me at the studio.
>It appears that all shows now come from remote locations (including
>Greaseman from his house) and go right to the transmitter in Frederick , MD.
>The sales staff seem to all have offices in their cars and are dispatched
>when someone calls them to inquire about commercial rates. I wonder if any
>other stations do this. (10/3/05)
>--------------------------------------------------------
>--
>Mark D. Bulla - Chief Engineer
>WNUV WB-54
>2000 W 41st Street
>Baltimore, MD  21211
>t: 410-467-8854
>f: 410-662-4886
>
>
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