That's not correct. A full power station can file for non-commercial status in the commercial band. The former WPFB-FM, Middletown, OH and WPAY-FM, Portsmouth, Ohio are both former commercial stations now owned by Northern Kentucky University but maintaining the same facilities they always had.
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Entercom Hands In KDND/Sacramento License
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A set of good examples is found in the New York City market where WNYC-FM, WBAI and WQXR are all in the commercial part of the band but are licensed as non-commerial station. All are Class B, although WQXR is lower powered than the others due to spacing issues.
WQXR at 105.9 operated for decades as a commercial station, but the others were licensed long ago as non-comercial.
Correct. I worked for K-LOVE and Air1 for many years and this has been done on numerous occausions in this area.
KSTN is an example from recent years.
David,
Is it safe to assume 107.9 will come back as a Class B or can/will it be downgraded?
One of the best signals in the area, sad to see it go.
Something that I've been wondering - Entercom surrendered the license only. The facility is what it is. The FCC, now as the license holder, isn't going to continue to pay rent for the transmitter and antenna for a silent station. So it would make some sense for Entercom to remove the site broadcast equipment and let the future license holder build a new facility, presumably at the current tower. I guess the future owner could also move the facility to another tower with an engineering/interference study.
Conversely, would Entercom continue to pay rent and lease tower space, hoping to sell to the future license holder?
Conversely, would Entercom continue to pay rent and lease tower space, hoping to sell to the future license holder?
The FCC doesn't get the transmitter or antenna. Just the license.
Is it even possible for KZAP to get better coverage in this frequency debacle?
You mean move the LPFM from 93.3 to 107.9?
Moving KZHP away from 93.3 to a non-adjacent (1st, 2nd, 3rd adjacent) or a non I.F (53 or 54 channels) will require a waiver from the FCC, which would rule out 107.9
Stolz stirring the Entercom pot again... He won't give up. He has had a serious hard on for them a long time...
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101751194&qnum=5000©num=1&exhcnum=2
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101751194&qnum=5000©num=1&exhcnum=2
Ol' Eddie has been turned down more by the FCC than Pete Rose by the Baseball Hall of Fame! Wonder what action he'll file down in SoCal as his former station appears to be coming back from hibernation?: http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?700409-KWIF-Getting-Ready-To-Launch
If he had challenged the entire cluster originally, this might have made sense. But he didn't, probably because he knew it would have been thrown out.
We would have gladly taken over the facility - but I think it's too late for that. Not sure what the ramifications would have been for that signal to be donated to a non-profit, but unless something has changed in the last few years, the KDND transmitter site is leased from Capital Public Radio. So I can't believe they didn't consider a donation to that organization. Big disclaimer - IANAL - but could it be possible that the liabilities associated with the contest follow the license somehow?
Dave B. (chief engineer at KVMR Nevada City)
The issue was the qualifications of the licensee. So I don't see how. Turning the license into the FCC leaves it to their disposal.
But I wasn't suggesting a donation. A donation also usually comes with a tax deduction. I suspect Entercom doesn't want to be seen as benefiting in any way.
My question was aimed at the Media Action Group, who declared a "victory for the public interest."
Victory? What victory? I hardly qualify displacing an entire air staff, programing and promotions department a victory for anyone but a moonbat organization in El Dorado Hills! A radio station is taken out of competition as a choice for listeners, an employer is downsized sending a number of those from that station who had nothing to do with a careless contest causing loss of life to the unemployment office. This lessens the number of ad dollars in the market. Now we have those few on the unemployment rolls and the few employees left deluding the hours offered to the other employees in the building thus reducing more hours. Can someone explain to me with a straight face where a victory is achieved? The guilty persons are long gone employed elsewhere. Entercom did not, does not, never will condone this kind of promotion. This obnoxious "media watch" organization is nothing more than a shell to make money at the expense of a grieving family and responsibile broadcast group and a few Star 106.5 employees. Takes a real ego to make a bold statement such as "victory". Spare us. They are the only ones who gained here, no one else!
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