[BC] Station Rules compliance (AOL Webmail)

[Robert Meuser]

WOWO was owned at the time by Inner City the parent of WLIB. They were 
intentionally dropped to 9.8 KW so they were no longer an A. The 
protection was reduced accordingly.  Now let's see that happen in NYC or 
Chicago - I don't think so.

R

Bailey, Scott wrote:

>If you own the daytimer and the Class A on the same channel, why can you
>not operate the daytimer at night if corporate wishes?
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>Look what was legally done with WLIB and WOWO. I do think there is a
>clause that is open to allow WOWO to be reclassified as a Class A in the
>future, or am I wrong about that?
>
>Scott
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Rich Wood
>Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:25 PM
>To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
>Subject: RE: [BC] Station Rules compliance (AOL Webmail)
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>------ At 09:51 AM 2/27/2007, Bailey, Scott wrote: -------
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>>Clear Channel owns a daytimer on 780 in Cookeville, TN.  They sign off
>>at night to protect WBBM, which is owned by CBS. If I was a betting
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>man,
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>>if Clear Channel owned WBBM, you would see the daytimer on 780 in
>>Cookeville, TN stay on 24/7. One of their own engineers told me that.
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>In a time when a company can buy a station and take it silent to 
>favor another market, why couldn't a common owner agree to accept the 
>interference from the daytimer? I don't like the idea but I wonder 
>how many distant listeners have any interest in Chicago news, weather 
>and traffic. Of course, I'm assuming the daytimer has a full time 
>news staff 24/7 and is providing live and local service to a 
>community that, desperately, needs Michael Savage after dark.
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