[BC] Station sign-on time/power

[Bailey, Scott]

Gary,

   I know of one station in the Nashville Market that is suppose to be
on a narrow DA at night with 1 KW, but they are on their day pattern
with 2 KW at night. It's been going on for quite some time now.
   On High School football night, watch out! I know of one station that
is supposed to run 50 watts at night that runs their day power during
H.S. Football. This stuff has been going on for years. Nobody cares
except the people in the broadcast industry who feel compelled to whine
about it. 
   My DX friends like it because they get catches they normally don't
get. I've even DX myself during H.S. Football night, in the press box of
our local high school.

Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Robert Meuser
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:21 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Station sign-on time/power

Gary Glaenzer wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bailey, Scott" <sbailey at nespower.com>
>
> "One day, the commerical AM Band will be come like the CB Band. IMHO,
it's
>headed that way."
>  
>

>sure will
>
>and attitudes such as yours and Robert's are why
>
>  
>
Gary:

I do not add to the problem. I am merely an observer stating what I see 
happening.  I mentioned earlier a daytime station located within 300 air

miles of a class A (former 1-A) omni station. That is about 300 miles 
inside the A protected night contour. I was never aware of the station 
until a friend who owns a station that is legally full time was telling 
about this new competitor and some programming they had at night.  I was

kind of surprised so I checked the FCC database which clearly shows it 
as day only. I did some checking and found not only were they operating 
24/7 but they were doing so with at least twice the licensed power. They

are openly doing business this way and this has been going on for a 
number of years now.  My friend feels it wrong to complain since his 
dispute is purely business and not technical. I casually let the 
offended Class A know and they could care less.  There is a lot of this 
going on. That is just a fact of life. I know another station (also on a

class A channel) that should be running a 6 tower DA with reduced power 
at night.  They have been omni at full day power since the late 80s. 
That one is really strange since when the class A did a rebuild, they 
got a ratchet and had to better protect the offending station. Of course

that particular A is a big IBOC cheerleader and has informed the FCC 
they do not need extended night coverage. I guess they are getting what 
they wish for.  I know of a third station that rather than drop power 
and go more directional at night, went to omni with day power at pattern

change time to cover a city that would otherwise have been in a  night 
null. The drop to omni produced the same field towards a monitor station

as the night array would have. They, too, did this for many years.  
These are just a few cases I am aware of. I hear there are many more. I 
think such practices have already become accepted practice. Now we have 
IBOC almost making such things merely a legal argument. It will take a 
radical change to put the Genie back in the bottle.

R
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