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Informal Objection Filed To WMVP Tower Move Application

The objection assumes a plethora of applications seeking to occupy the space. Seems to me, the FCC has been eliminating secondary protection of clear channels for the past 40 years.
 
boiseengineer said:
Who is Albert David and why does he care so much about so many FCC filings?
He's even filed against LPFMs.
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Sounds like young people in the 1960s and 1970s, young and idealistic. I can sympathize on the basis of nostalgia and as a radio aficionado and scientific DXer, but everybody similar to that description also has a deep disturbing underlying feeling that not just AM radio, but FM radio, is in big trouble, and may soon be gone.
 
TheBigA said:
The objection assumes a plethora of applications seeking to occupy the space. Seems to me, the FCC has been eliminating secondary protection of clear channels for the past 40 years.
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Here's the peg that I believe the staff will use to reject the objection, italicized:

While other clear-channel stations do serve these areas, the justification for maintaining
the privilege afforded WMVP to have its secondary coverage protected from interference
would be greatly diminished by the proposed change to its nighttime pattern. As the
aforementioned situation demonstrates, the need to have clear-channel AM stations does remain
today, but the proposed changes to WMVP's facilities causes its nighttime skywave coverage in
the United States to be comparable, and even inferior, to Class B AM stations of comparable
power, some of which (KKOB, KTNN, and KBOI being just a few examples) provide skywave
coverage to areas that are more underserved by local broadcasters or have terrain that makes
reception of local stations difficult.
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In other words, there's no withdrawal of service issue, so bringing up KKOB, etc. is irrelevant. The proposed facility still covers the city of license quite adequately; it will be shared, thus reducing environmental impact; and it avoids an even bigger potential downgrade. At least the first two of those factors are known regulatory priorities.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Sounds like young people in the 1960s and 1970s, young and idealistic. I can sympathize on the basis of nostalgia and as a radio aficionado and scientific DXer, but everybody similar to that description also has a deep disturbing underlying feeling that not just AM radio, but FM radio, is in big trouble, and may soon be gone.
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They won't be gone, but they will be diminished, and the type and nature of operations will change away from an advertising-supported model to other models. We're in the middle of such a shift now but it will take some time to play out.

Greeting cards haven't gone away yet, either.
 
In the DX forum, here's a post about a Kentucky daytimer that was established on 1000 in 1980 and which lasted about a decade and a half. (It was located SSE of Chicago.) I wouldn't see that anyone would try to do this today, even with nighttime flea power available. In any event, from a regulatory point of view, the WMVP objector's argument about diversity and underserved areas is shaky at best; from a practical point of view, it's downright specious.

Link: https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/am-frequency-of-the-week-1000.768269/post-6671024
 
Mark Roberts said:
In the DX forum, here's a post about a Kentucky daytimer that was established on 1000 in 1980 and which lasted about a decade and a half. (It was located SSE of Chicago.) I wouldn't see that anyone would try to do this today, even with nighttime flea power available. In any event, from a regulatory point of view, the WMVP objector's argument about diversity and underserved areas is shaky at best; from a practical point of view, it's downright specious.

Link: https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/am-frequency-of-the-week-1000.768269/post-6671024
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WKVG 1000 in Jenkins, KY lasted until earlier this year.. though in the last several years, i think iot spent alot of time offf air
 
exdjted said:
Think of him as the Ed Stolz of objection filers. He's got an amateur license and WAY too much time on his hands...
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In Albert's defense, I did my share of FCC comments and filings when I was younger. Some worked well, some were basically ignored. I stopped when many good ideas got shot down by market competitors' filings, with obscure case citings, by competitors, not initially the FCC. And everything else was scrutinized by market competitors to look for a reason to dismiss, but were approved. Many prevailed. I just had to work much harder than others to convince them.
 
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