[BC] City Of License/Transmitter site question

[Jerry Mathis]

I just took a look in the Rules for LPFM's, and there are no requirements
for either the transmitter OR the studio to be inside the COL.

--
Jerry Mathis

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, <wmroradio at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I was under the impression, unless something has changed, that a LPFM's
> studios had to be in the COL. If you stop and think about it, LPFMs were
> designed to serve the COL with programming that the listeners couldn't get
> from the big hogs, allow volunteers to do radio shows, where the big hogs
> wouldn't sell them airtime, and a learning place for the volunteers.
>
> Also, it is LEGAL to sell a church time on a LPFM, BUT.....it has to be a
> donation noted on the check from the church or pastor of the church to the
> LPFM station & the LPFM station to document it. This helps pay the expenses
> on maitaing the little station. It is legal for a church to own a LPFM, but
> the church must maintain a studio in the COL, at least that's the way I
> understand it.
>
> I have found that LPFM's are misused and not used for their original
> purpose. It's not just religious broadcasters, but secular little non-profit
> groups, and people trying to use them as a commercial station, etc. Too many
> loop holes in our crapie legal system.
>
> --
> Scott Bailey
> President/General Manager
> WMRO-AM, Magic 1560
> Gallatin, TN
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com>
> >
> > We're dealing with an LPFM here.
> >
> > The station was licensed sometime in 2005 to one town. Just before CP
> > expiration,  It came on the air  from it's licensed  (according to the
> > co-ordinate son the license) transmitter site.
> >
> > Problem is, that transmitter site is some 20 miles away from the city of
> > license and this LPFM, in no way covers the COL.
> >
> > What rules out here, with regards to transmitter site and coverage? The
> > requirement to be in/near your COL and cover it... or be where the
> > transmitter site co-ordinates are, regardless of the fact they cause you
> to
> > not cover your COL and are too far away?
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> > Paul B. Walker, Jr.
> > www.onairdj.com
> >
> >
>