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Counties without radio stations

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ftballfan

I'm not certain that this is the best place for it, but I decided to put it in here.
Do you know of any counties that do not have any full power radio stations licensed to communities in it?
Lake County, MI has never had a full power radio station licensed to it as far as I know. It is basically a "black hole" when it comes to media, as the Ludington stations won't touch it despite putting a listenable signal over most of that county. The same goes for the Big Rapids stations.
Newaygo County, MI is much more populous than Lake County yet it only has one radio station licensed to it (two more licensed to cities outside the county have their transmitters in Newaygo County). Fremont, in Newaygo County, has the dubious distinction of being one of very few cities to lose all of their local services (the AM went silent and the FM moved to Holton). The lone radio station in Newaygo County, WLAW, was made possible by WJZQ moving north and downgrading from a C to a C1.
 
Jones County, North Carolina (in the eastern part of the state), while home to a nearly 2,000-foot tower that hosts three Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville market TV stations (WCTI/New Bern, WYDO/Greenville, and WUNM/Jacksonville) and country station WRNS-FM/Kinston (95.1, 100 kW) as well as WCTI's original 1963 tower, a 1,000-footer that supports classic rock station WSFL/New Bern (106.5, 100 kW), it has never to my knowledge had a full-power AM, FM or TV station licensed to it and doesn't even host any low power services.

Camden County, North Carolina (NE corner of the state due south of Virginia Beach) and Clay County (SW part of the state on the Georgia border) appear to be others
 
There are 254 counties in Texas and I'm fairly sure that almost all of them have stations of some sort. The largest, Brewster, is bigger than the each of the three smallest U.S. states and has an AM/FM combo and a translator in the county seat of Alpine. That's it. Between Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley, Kenedy County is fairly good size but has no stations. Likewise the smallest county in Texas, Rockwall, has none. There is an application to move a translator there, however, and because it's more or less a part of suburban Dallas it's home to a few AM transmitter sites.
 
Now that the forum appears to be stabilized, I would like to add that Keweenaw and Antrim counties in Michigan have no radio stations licensed in them. Alcona County actually has a station licensed to it: 89.7 WJOJ Harrisville
 
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