[BC] Re: Another "Strange"...(MORE)

[Robert Meuser]

Mark

Where are you digging up this info? I can not find any info on the 
application on the FCC website.  Am I looking in the wrong place?

R


Mark Humphrey wrote:

> On 2/28/07, Dan Kelley <djkelley at frontier.net> wrote:
>
>> Years ago...while working in another market...I did apply
>> for fill-in translators for our FMs, got them and put them on
>> the air although in reality they weren't really needed.
>> Right or wrong, part of it was a land-grab..
>
>
> Others have done the same thing -- in fact, I know of one fill-in
> translator near Syracuse granted to transmit from the very same tower
> as the station it "rebroadcasts".  This is clearly a land-grab, but
> apparently legal.
>
> Regarding WRHI's situation, it conveniently worked out that their AM
> site is north of Rock Hill, while the city limits have expanded to the
> south, probably through annexation.  I haven't found the STA
> application, but from the letter, it appears the licensee argued that
> the station could no longer serve the entire "Community of License"
> without adding coverage from the FM translator.
>
> If another AM broadcaster were in a similar situation, but the
> population growth happened to be in a different municipality (but
> within the same urbanized area), would the FCC still allow such a
> waiver?
>
> The legal definition of COL is increasingly irrelevant to the public,
> yet the Commission continues to consider it of overwhelming importance
> in matters like this.  However, when minimum bids are set in FM
> auctions, they'll base them on total market popultion, not just the
> COL.  I find some FCC policies very contradictory.
>
> Mark
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