[BC] Translator 'land-grabs'

[Mike Erickson]

Why am I channeling Hedley Lamarr?

There might be legal precedent!  Of course, Landsnatching... land, land,
land... see Snatch.

Ah, Hailey vs. United Sates. Hailey: 7, United States: Nothing. You see, it
can be done!

=Mike Erickson=

On 2/28/07, Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:
>
> WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
>
> > "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
>
> I'm no fan of land-grabs like this either, but there's this to be said
> for the process: it's eminently democratic. You or I could just as
> easily have applied for all those translators, and even if the FCC
> wasn't yet allowing FM translators for AMs (even under what I'll now
> call a "South Carolina STA"), they could easily have been parked as
> translators of something else inoffensive and non-competitive while
> awaiting an eventual rules changed.
>
> That, after all, is what WRHI quietly did, and it certainly paid off for
> them.
>
> Like the sleazy bad-credit/no-credit used car dealer here in town says
> in their ads, "We can't help everyone, but we can't help ANYONE if they
> don't apply."
>
> s
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=Mike Erickson=
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