[BC] Translator 'land-grabs'

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In a message dated 02/28/2007 2:05:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, djkelley at frontier.net writes:

> 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 (although most of
>  them could have been displaced by someone dropping in a class A
>  allotment)...but also with the hope that someday the rules might
>  loosen to allow the signal-challenged AMs in the cluster to 
>  simulcast on FM.

"Land-grab"... that sure sounds like what a certain station is doing/has done around here... peppering multiple places on the FM dial with copies of itself. Multiple x-lators, all within its primary coverage. The station and it's full-power x-lator/station overlap coverages, so the area resembles a peanut. Several of it's x-lators fall within that overlap zone. They also have an app for a 100 watt x-lator only about a mile away from an existing 18 watt x-lator.

Yeah, I guess that could be called a "land-grab". >:P

Willie...