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FCC now allowing AM Stations to use FM Translators

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bishoppri

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I read somewhere online that the FCC will tighten and monitor all stations to see if they are benefitting the community especially in regards to local community programming the report said the FCC did'nt think most stations were serving the community through local original programming and if they were it was most likely AM stations so to broaden or encourage this, the FCC will in the future allow AM stations to acquire FM translators. Has anyone heard of have knowledge of this?
 
Haven't heard about it. I don't see it having much of an effect though. There just isn't enough room on the FM band to add translators.
 
bishoppri said:
I read somewhere online that the FCC will tighten and monitor all stations to see if they are benefitting the community especially in regards to local community programming the report said the FCC did'nt think most stations were serving the community through local original programming and if they were it was most likely AM stations so to broaden or encourage this, the FCC will in the future allow AM stations to acquire FM translators. Has anyone heard of have knowledge of this?
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Formally, these are two separate proceedings.

The FCC has been fairly routinely waiving the regulations to allow FM translators to relay AM stations. There are three such operations here in the Nashville area and quite a few elsewhere in the country. A proceeding is open to amend the rules to permit this, so that waivers will no longer be required. It is possible this proceeding will fail (that the rules will not be amended) but I'd be very surprised.

There is also a proceeding open that would reimpose public-service and staffing requirements on broadcasters. This was part of a proceeding to relax broadcast/newspaper cross-ownership regulations. Broadcasters are rather unhappy (to say the least) with the public-service side of this and I think it stands no chance of adoption.

I can't rule out the possibility that the FM translators proceeding and the public-service proceeding are linked, but I doubt it. My gut feeling is the FM translators thing is a bone to small AM operators who are suffering interference from IBOC.
 
I believe WRHI (the SC radio station of the year) has been running one in the Fort Mill area for several months now. 94.3, maybe?
 
yugoidar said:
I believe WRHI (the SC radio station of the year) has been running one in the Fort Mill area for several months now. 94.3, maybe?
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Yes, WRHI/1340 has also been broadcasting on translator 94.3 in Rock Hill for some time. 94.3 formerly relayed thier sister station on 107.1.
 
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