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City of License Question

You are indirectly making my point. The number of signals with a Miami Beach COL may be disproportionate, but so is the number of signals in some cross-roads that only has 100 people -- it is disproportionate even if it is one powerful station. Look at WKLG, Rock Harbor -- it is really a Homestead area station, but Homestead has a couple of stations already, but what is "Rock Harbor"?

The COL as a means of allocating signals makes no sense and hasn't in a while. My house is in Davie, but is that my identity? Would I even care if some station constantly talked about Davie, its town council, mayor, and schools? If anything I would find it annoying and small-minded -- I consider myself to be in the South Florida (Miami-FLL-WPB) region more than anything else. This is probably true of most people in metro areas. The station that tells me what is going on throughout my world is of interest, not the one that happens to mention my town more often. That is why stations with anything other than very low power should be licensed to regions. Some form of commercial low-power radio would be a good add-on for town-level granularity, but don't waste Class B and C FM'ers on that!
 
You're all right and I think the simplest and most accurate answer is the serving of the COL is a thing of the past. In 2010, it's simply a legal "paperwork" way of identifying a facility to listeners without numbers. Same goes for a visual ID on TV stations. I think if the FCC were to drop on air legal IDs and the like, most people wouldn't notice. For example, if a station or facility is operating illegally, the FCC is gonna eventually know and doesn't need me to report that WSJT in Holmes Beach is the offending station. Simply reporting it's 98.7 in Tampa Bay is gonna narrow it down to who I'm talking about.
 
@samb15: Rock Harbor is a small town 2 miles south of Key Largo, around Mile Marker 98 of US 1. There is a sign there, but no idea how long you drive before you are out of it!

WKLG keeps me from a chance at Mix 102 in Freeport, Bahamas, if it's still there (Mix used to have a website, but somebody pulled it). Curious to know who listens to WKLG....they only have 2 to 4 minutes of ads an hour, and the music is all over the board, and nothing much after the mid 90s, except I heard "Landslide" the other day.

cd
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there an LPFM on 102.1 or 102.3 in downtown Miami a few years back, quite a few years back?
 
Most definitely! Calls were WAEM with 25 watts I think....basically a TIS, using 5 languages to help tourists through Miami. Twas 102.3.

cd
 
WAEN sounds a lot better than one of those W272xx callsigns.
Arthur E Nucker? ;)
 
It was WAEM....but WAEN would be named after the image of MAD Magazine.

cd
 
BTW before they were WAEM, they had one of those 6-digit calls with the year in it, something like 930513AN or something.

cd
 
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