Any details, or has everyone been playing it close to the vest?
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Franken FM End Date: 7/13/21
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Here's an article from when this first came up last year:
“We have a solution and [are] moving forward,” Paul Koplin, CEO of Venture Technologies Group, told me.'
In the City of Fallen Angels, they have a low-power channel 6 "FM" broadcasting Spanish religious content. In the past the video was just a static station ident card with its logo, though it appears recently they've been adding live full-motion video to the programme, effectively making it a legit TV station. shango066 often uses it as a beacon for testing the tuner modules in old TV sets, usually also commenting for Youtube that LA still has an functioning analogue TV station in the 2010s/2020s.
So what will shango end up doing after this July? I guess he'd have to stick an antenna onto the RF output of his ATSC receiver and use it as a substitute, transmitting on channel 3 or 4 instead of 6.
So what will shango end up doing after this July? I guess he'd have to stick an antenna onto the RF output of his ATSC receiver and use it as a substitute, transmitting on channel 3 or 4 instead of 6.
For those not in the Los Angeles market who are curious, oldradiotapes is referring to KZNO-LP, which despite its COL being Big Bear Lake (which is in San Bernardino County), transmits from Mt. Harvard (a peak adjacent to Mt. Wilson) in Los Angeles County. The Spanish religious content is Guadalupe Radio. The main channel of KHTV-CD on RF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 6.1) serves as a digital simulcast, labeled GR-TV.
But any listeners to this Franken FM need not worry about Guadalupe Radio going away entirely come July 13. The station has a free app in the Apple and Google Play stores to stream it.
That "low power" facility is 1 kw at 2800 feet, with a 60 dbu contour that covers about 80% of the LA Metro Survey Area population.
Well, I'm just going by what Shango says about it. Obviously LA radio isn't really something I'm terribly knowledgeable of.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't help somebody using the physical transmission on channel 6 (82-88 MHz) for testing analogue television equipment, which was what my post was about.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't help somebody using the physical transmission on channel 6 (82-88 MHz) for testing analogue television equipment, which was what my post was about.
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Testing analog television equipment?? Considering DTV has been in place since 2009, I fail to see why that would be important.
They still work! I have three receivers I still use and several others which might work if one goes bad.
In fact, two have gone bad and after resting for a few months worked again.
Sure, my neighbor has a horse and buggy he uses for hay rides in the fall. Doesn't mean roads should be reserved for horses and buggies.
OK.
The FCC has issued an STA for Franken FMs:
www.radioworld.com
Venture Technologies owns several of these stations, including WRME Chicago.
www.insideradio.com
FCC Throws Lifeline to an FM6 Station - Radio World
FCC throws lifeline to an FM6 station, KBKF; the temporary extension suggests commission’s mind isn’t made up yet on Franken FMs
www.radioworld.com
Venture Technologies owns several of these stations, including WRME Chicago.
‘Franken FM’ In San Jose Gets Six Month Lease On Life; Other LPTVs Could Follow.
With a nickname of Franken FMs, it is no surprise that the low-power television stations targeting radio listeners may not die next month after all. LPTV owner Venture Technologies Group
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Surprise, surprise? Not. Money talks, and optics matter. The FCC has nothing to gain by shutting down profitable broadcasting-related businesses or by depriving listeners of programming unique to their markets, especially minority-interest or religious. Looks to me that the FCC has no further appetite for this fight and will tweak and twist its regulatory language to allow KBKF, WRME and the others to carry on uninterrupted.The FCC has issued an STA for Franken FMs:
FCC Throws Lifeline to an FM6 Station - Radio World
FCC throws lifeline to an FM6 station, KBKF; the temporary extension suggests commission’s mind isn’t made up yet on Franken FMs
Venture Technologies owns several of these stations, including WRME Chicago.
If you go back a year to page 1 of this thread, Venture was pretty confident it had an idea that the FCC would accept:
Franken FMs Embrace Plan B To Remain On The Radio Dial.
Every day is a step closer to July 13, 2021 – the date that so-called Franken FMs must go off the air. But the companies that own low-power television stations
It seems with the recent FrankenFM developments that they might become a permanent fixture. I wouldn't have thought it possible a couple of months ago.
If the FrankenFMs survive beyond the final digital LPTV conversion, I think there's a small chance we may see a few groups campaigning to open up 87.5, 87.7 and 87.9 for FM. Probably too little and too late...
If the FrankenFMs survive beyond the final digital LPTV conversion, I think there's a small chance we may see a few groups campaigning to open up 87.5, 87.7 and 87.9 for FM. Probably too little and too late...
That's the point NPR is making. And they want those frequencies for NCE.
Hey, 3 more frequencies for American Family Radio, 3 Angels and EMF.
The specific station given this STA is leased to EMF for Air1.
But if the FCC says yes to a Christian music station on 87.7 in one market, it would have to allow the soft oldies station on 87.7 in another market to continue, right? It couldn't just conjure up a NCE-only clause and thereby ruin WRME, could it?
The issue at play right now is a technical one. There is no NCE clause because those frequencies weren't part of the original rule.
Jackson, Mississippi has a Franken FM: WJMF-LP (channel 6; 87.7 FM).
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