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How common is a translator running programming from a station in a far away state?

radiofan2023

radiofan2023

There's a translator in Kansas City, 104.7 K284CH, that radio-locator says runs programming from KMXD in Monroe, Utah. How common is this? I thought translators had to relay other stations that were located in the same market.
 
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radiofan2023 said:
There's a translator in Kansas City, 104.7 K284CH, that runs programming from KMXD in Monroe, Utah. How common is this? I thought translators had to relay other stations that were located in the same market.
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K284CH is a translator for KCXL 1140 in the market, at least as far as what's reported to the FCC.

Translators below 92 MHz can be fed from anywhere in the country by any means (satellite, internet, etc) as long as they are commonly owned with the parent station.

Translators in the commercial band are either "fill-in" or "non-fill-in." If they're fill-in, they can be fed by any means (usually from an AM or HD2/3/4 these days) but have to have their contour contained within the primary station's contour. There are some extensions to that rule specifically for translators of AM stations.

Non-fill-in translators can extend beyond the primary station's contour but can't be owned by the primary station, and they have to be fed over the air, which limits how far they can be from the primary.

Translators can daisy-chain, so you can have a non-commercial band translator receiving a signal by satellite (like the 88.1 in Buffalo that relays WXHL from Delaware) and then a commercial-band translator that picks up the 88.1 and relays it to extend the reach, in this case a 106.9 on Grand Island near Niagara Falls.
 
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