Are you sure about that, Bong? The new CFC CP in Sedro-Woolley was delayed over 3 months for co-ordination with the Canadians. Contour protection was an issue that had to be shown. When it turned out that the tower the station was to put its antenna on (still listed in the FCC register) had not, in fact, been built, the company had to re-apply for another location. That application, a minor change, also had to pass muster with the Canadians and took months to get approved.
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Are you sure about that, Bong? The new CFC CP in Sedro-Woolley was delayed over 3 months for co-ordination with the Canadians. Contour protection was an issue that had to be shown. When it turned out that the tower the station was to put its antenna on (still listed in the FCC register) had not, in fact, been built, the company had to re-apply for another location. That application, a minor change, also had to pass muster with the Canadians and took months to get approved.
OK. Maybe I got a little ahead of myself. But it wasn't that long ago when a station in Sedro-Woolley on 105.7 would be unthinkable. As would a station on 93.1 in Vancouver.
OK. Well... people who know more about this than I have told me (and this also goes to Fordrangers comment on the topic) that, aside from the contour protection we have to provide at the border, there is no more requirement for us to keep Canadian stations listenable to American audiences than vice-versa. The "protection" is only to prevent our stations from creating problems across the border.
People here can get all indignant about this, and they frequently do. It's not the broadcaster's job to moralize on the subject, any more than whether translators are needed where someone wants to DX his favorite station in another country or whether we "need" another Spanish this, religious that or milquetoast soft-rock something else. As long as the project complies with the rules, the argument is with the FCC.
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I remember the first time I heard the Russian speaking station blasting up from Oregon one winter afternoon. I thought "wow, what's this? A new local station?"
I'm guessing CKWX is still probably in the clear on the north side of the border, where their target audience is. I don't think Bellingham and Blaine are part of the Vancouver market.
I'm guessing CKWX is still probably in the clear on the north side of the border, where their target audience is. I don't think Bellingham and Blaine are part of the Vancouver market.
Agreed. Sure, us radio nerds can complain, but the people who make up the actual audience are the only ones who matter. Same goes for KQRR's Portland listening audience.
Admittedly, most things we complain about on this board are things that no one else cares about.
Don't know that I'd go quite that far, so long as you're open to viewpoints that don't match up with your own. To some extent, that's improved.
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