[BC] Daylight Savings Time and Translators for AM

[Stan Tacker]

Operation around sunrise and sunset is getting more and more touchy for
stations on regional channels especially with a few class B stations
measuring themselves up to higher powers.  Since there is no critical hours
protection between the B's and D's, the situation can really limit a
station's ability to cover the market within its protected contour.

Not much to do except go for a corresponding power increase.  Many can, it
just takes a bunch of field work.

What is the group's take on the NAB proposal for translators for AM
stations?

With the number of translator apps filed in the last window, it's hard to
take it seriously.  Where are these frequencies to come from?  Our state
assn. of broadcasters doesn't know...they just say trust NAB.  Can't do
that.

Longer DST is going to be a problem everywhere.



-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of WFIFeng at aol.com
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:15 PM
To: broadcast at radiolists.net
Subject: [BC] Daylight Saving Time - 2007

I have yet to see *any* discussion regarding the upcoming changes to
Daylight
Savings Time, and how adversely this is going to affect us Daytimers and
stations with flea-power at night. We're going to lose a whole hour of
morning
drive time for the first two weeks of November, and again in March. What (if
anything) will the FCC do to provide us with some kind of "relief"?

Last time the clocks were tinkered with, Uncle Charlie gave us (WFIF) 290
watts from 6-6:15am in April, after the clock-change. Assuming they 
give us the
same thing for November, it's really not going to be very helpful, seeing as
the sunrise will appear to be an hour later... thus, that first hour's
programming will, essentially, be useless because of the *very* 
strong skywave of WTWP.

What to do...? I wonder if the NAB proposal to give us access to FM
translators will ever come to fruition. If for no other reason, *this 
one* would be a
good one!

Willie...

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