87.7 Stunting?

[Torgo Johnson]

Listened a little bit more, it seems like the newer stuff they play is more AAA-ish (never have heard "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson on an alternative rock station), but the older stuff (especially the 90's) are all over the place (Nirvana, The Cranberries, Green Day, Eagle-Eye Cherry). They seriously need to play a little bit more newer stuff. If they are willing to play harder-edged, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Green Day from the 90's, I dont see why they can play Rise Against, at least.

 

[Jim B.]

So...yeah, just found this forum. Don't know the term 'stunting', but since I don't hear about anybody actually going to the FCC's web site to find this out, I'll say that probably the main reason for the delay in startup was due to legal challenges from the bastards at NPR. They are trying to get a number of these type stations shut down for something along the lines of 'not meeting the purpose of the service' or whatever. IOW, they don't think a low-power TV station should be airing music 'aimed' at FM broadcast listeners, instead of concentrating on TV. Of course, NPR just doesn't want the 'competition.'

 

[DrC]

So...yeah, just found this forum. Don't know the term 'stunting', but since I don't hear about anybody actually going to the FCC's web site to find this out, I'll say that probably the main reason for the delay in startup was due to legal challenges from the bastards at NPR. They are trying to get a number of these type stations shut down for something along the lines of 'not meeting the purpose of the service' or whatever. IOW, they don't think a low-power TV station should be airing music 'aimed' at FM broadcast listeners, instead of concentrating on TV. Of course, NPR just doesn't want the 'competition.'

Do you have a source for this? I read this board daily, and AllAccess and FMQB pretty frequently, and haven't heard anything remotely close to this. This sounds like anti-NPR conspiracy theory of the highest order, but for the heck of it, I googled "NPR channel 6" and this is the one (1) article I found, from 2009. Which basically described NPR stations wanting to increase power to their 88-92 mHz stations in areas where channel 6s exist (or are viewable) now that, presumably, modern television tuners have better selectivity than when the protections for TV channel 6 reception were enacted in 1985. Nothing about wanting to shut down channel 6s, and nothing about channel 6 being used as a makeshift FM frequency. I don't think big bad NPR is all that worried about makeshift FM stations that will be gone in three years.

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/channel-6-protection

 

[Jim B.]

Well, the complaint was filed with the FCC, and someone posted a link to it on another list I'm on somewhere. It's been a month or so now, so finding it would take hours...btw, it's not just Cleveland they are complaining about. The outfit that started all this is out of Chicago.

 

[johnbasalla]

Back in the 1970s I was in college. I went to some Intercollegiate Broadcast System conventions. They had a whole seminars about what CPB and NPR were doing to get college radio stations, particularly the small ones, off the air.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

NPR has long expressed its displeasure over the commercial "Franken FMs" sitting right next to the non-comm band, but I'm not aware of any specific action that would have contributed to 87.7's delay locally.

The sign-on delay appears to have been caused due to local factors (engineering glitches and wait for personnel, etc.)