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96.7 WTSX Port Jervis to Change COL to Lehman, PA & Move Transmitter

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For the past year or so 96.7 WCTZ Stamford, CT has a CP to change the COL to Port Chester, NY (which is completed) and to move the transmitter to Long Island.......With this move WTSX Port Jervis, NY has a CP to alter their signal (become directional) to allow WCTZ to make the move.....However, that is all might be changing.....Cox now has applied to move the WCTZ transmitter farther west to Yonkers, NY instead of Long Island.....With this move WTSX has applied to leave Port Jervis and is moving southwest into Lehman, PA....Lehman, PA is located along the Delaware between Milford & Stroudsburg.......So if this all gets approved, it appears WTSX will become a fringe signal to the Stroudsburg area probably similar to 106.3 WHCY.
 
Can you tell me what burg Lehman is near? I can't find it on any map. Is it near Dingman's Ferry or some other such metropolis?
 
Is it going to actually cover any humans? Or just deer & trees?

BTW, I mapquested Lehman and came up with a village near Scranton/WB--which would make more sense in terms of creating greater value for the licensee. What's in this for WTSX? Did Cox write them a huge check?
 
jackandcoke said:
Is it going to actually cover any humans? Or just deer & trees?

BTW, I mapquested Lehman and came up with a village near Scranton/WB--which would make more sense in terms of creating greater value for the licensee. What's in this for WTSX? Did Cox write them a huge check?
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Probably!
 
You've got the right location, outside Scr/WB, but the wrong name. Lake-Lehman is a school district; the actual name is Lehman Township, just beyond Dallas. L-L stands for Lake Twp and Lehman Twp.
 
It appears that the FCC has approved the WTSX & WCTZ moves.....No word on when these moves will take place though.
 
Much of the prime coverage area was pretty much abandoned by the ill fated Tocks Island project in the 70's. No people, no business. Boy, talk about a tough sell!
 
So I'm scratching my head wondering when FCC changed the rules from a COL to AOL - as in Community Of License to Area Of License. When was it permissible to license to an area, like a township? Leaves things pretty wide open as where the city-grade contour covers, ya know? As long as the city-grade covers any portion of the township can they put the transmitter on top of Totts Gap or Camelback for that matter, since city-grade could possibly cover Lehman. OR... does the city-grade have to cover the entire township to be legal?

Any one know how this will be handled? If a station could get the COL changed to an AOL that could make it a whole lot easier to do a move-in to a larger market…

Oh, the predicted coverage has it covering the Stroudsburg Area fairly well.
 
The COL can be a township....this rule has existed since the forties; see WWDG, 105.1, Town of Deruyter, NY (originally part of the Rural Radio Network from the 50's) and WREQ, 96.9, Ridgebury Township, PA (is considered the Township from the original FCC order creating the station). To provide City grade service the FCC's policy (not listed in the rulebook but a rule nonetheless) a station must provide 70 dBu service to either 80% of the area OR population of a community.

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