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Any available frequencies left on the FM Dial in Providence?

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Skynet74

If someone had the cash and wanted to build a new station in Providence, are there any available frequencies left on the FM Dial? Between Providence, Boston, Worcester and Cape Cod I think every available frequency is already taken. Am I right?
 
You sure are. The closest open channel at this point is out on the Cape, with no hope of being moved west.
 
Scott:

Any possibility that either 98.1 WCTK or 97.3 WJFD might be able to move a little closer to Providence....say....for example....sharing the WLWC-TV tower in Freetown?
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
Scott:

Any possibility that either 98.1 WCTK or 97.3 WJFD might be able to move a little closer to Providence....say....for example....sharing the WLWC-TV tower in Freetown?
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Pretty much every station in southern New England is short-spaced at this point. Is it possible to move those big class Bs? Yes, probably (and for a suitable consulting fee I'd be delighted to explore the question in detail ;) ... but in a short-spaced world, those moves almost always come with tradeoffs. Would it be worth, for instance, downgrading WJFD from a full B to a B1 in exchange for a city-grade signal over Providence? That's a judgment call. If I'm Ed Dinis programming in Portuguese, probably not...but if I'm someone else buying the station to program something in English, it might be worth pursuing.
 
MarcB said:
They have that so you know what frequency you can use for your XM or Sirius Satellite radio.
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I use 102.9 for my Sirius radio. I used to listen to 102.9 out of Cape Cod. But getting Stern is much preferred over a weak signal from the Cape. Now my Sirius radio kills any chance of me getting that station anymore.
 
WCTK cannot move at all towards Providence. Ironically one of the stations in the way is co-owned WILI-FM. WJFD is also short spaced by a number of other FM's such that it cannot move either. Pretty much most stations in the northeast are heavily blocked and short spaced.
 
Using the program RFInvestigator and the most recent FCC database, none of the 3 "Best" frequencies are even close to working in Providence. Radio-Locator is not a reliable source for such information.
 
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