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Allocations Action at FCC

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In response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the FCC today approved 3 new Class A facilities, 2 in Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, and 1 in Sedro-Woolley (near Mt. Vernon).
Channel 277A, 233A and 289A, respectively. This case was interesting in that all parties thought there was only one channel to work with, channel 289, and thus were mutually exclusive thinking that they had to fight it out. The Commission came back and said there were "alternate channels available", and so awarded 3 new channels to all three parties. An objection was heard in regards to a Canadian station, but the FCC held that Canadian Station CBU-FM, even though short-spaced, was "specially-negotiated", which means both goverments didn't care if there was any interference caused to station CBU.

Click here: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1762A1.pdf
 
It is too late to move low power rim shot stations like these into the Seattle metro. So the chance of that happening is pretty small. So now Whidbey Island, already blanketed with signals from Seattle, Bellingham, Victoria and Vancouver will have three new local outlets. Should make for some challenging local radio.
 
"Local" radio...Bible Radio Network...hmmm, I wonder how "local" will they be?

Sounds like a lot of NCE stuff off the bird...Just what these communities need, more absentee programmer/owners.
 
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