Grand Portage allocations

[bobdavcav]

How the heck is a 102.7 in Grand Portage going to target Thunder Bay with a college station on the same frequency? The more I look at this, 92.7 seems to be the best frequency. It looks like the 102.7 signal would have to be at least slightly directional away from Canada, so a community-oriented station intensly focused on northern Minisota looks likely if that station gets on the air.

 

[ftballfan]

There are more than enough places for said college station to move as Thunder Bay has a very empty radio dial.

 

[bobdavcav]

I guess you're right, but I thought that kind of move usually only happened with LP fm stations? Did anyone get those allocations? I do know that 96.9 was awarded to an operator, but what about 102.7 or 92.7? I guess it does go both ways, why the heck are they allocating a clas A right on top of a full C in this area? In this case, the radio dial isn't empty at all. That station could easily move if they need to, but CBU-FM has nowhere to go, and there is no room for any more new stations.

 

[bobdavcav]

Thanks EJM, I saw that a few hours ago.

 

[bobdavcav]

Wow, this board must be really dead if this thread is still on the first page and was started before this site's migration to new forum software. I was thinking about these stations the other day, and was wondering what became of them. Admittedly I didn't look that hard, but didn't find anything about their existance when I looked yesterday. I had asked the name of the operator that was awarded 92.7 and 102.7 which was moved to 98.1 after the auction, but that post appears to have been deleted, and I can't seem to find the auction results online. If I remember right though, it sounded like it would be an ethnic operator. I remember the name of the entity that got 96.9 as Rezenants Media Group, though not sure I spelled that correctly. Can anyone help me find that information as well as the status of these stations?