[BC] WOAI

[PeterH5322]

>Don't forget the eternal 770 battle between WABC, New York and KOB, 
>Albuquerque. WABC was left as the only network flagship that wasn't 
>really clear.

The alternative was for WABC to install a DA, and become a Class I-B, as 
the FCC had ruled.

Instead, ABC did nothing, became a skofflaw, took the case to the SCOTUS, 
and The Supremes decided that as New Mexico already had a "station of the 
Class I type", namely KSWS, then 50/10 kW DA-2, and that the "white 
areas" of that region were, by then, adequately covered by FM, that NM 
was NOT deserving of a Class I-A, AT ALL!

Therefore, it returned the problem to the Commish, which fixed that 
problem by amemding the Class II-A List to include NM, with 770 assigned 
as a Class II-A to NM, only.

Any number of U.S. Class I-A Clears hadn't been really clear, from as 
early as 1955, IF NOT EARLIER.

830, 1030, 760 and possibly others are examples.

Now, there are NO true clears ... ANYWHERE!