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is the 106.3 translator testing?
- Thread starter Jeffrey
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It so happens that there is a brief article about the NYC translator situation in today's Radio Insight.
It states that 106.3 "Remains in limbo". But its operator, Apple Community Broadcasting has applied to move W268AN, its LI translator on 101.5 FM, west of its current location in Plainview. They want it to operate from a site near the Nassau County/Queens border, running a modest 10 watts. It would continue to rebroadcast WLIR 107.1 from eastern Long Island, which has had a Christian format for several months, and is available on several other translators.
But checking the F.C.C. database, it appears that the application has already been dismissed, if I read it correctly.
Map Submitted With Application: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101448306&qnum=5110©num=1&exhcnum=3
It states that 106.3 "Remains in limbo". But its operator, Apple Community Broadcasting has applied to move W268AN, its LI translator on 101.5 FM, west of its current location in Plainview. They want it to operate from a site near the Nassau County/Queens border, running a modest 10 watts. It would continue to rebroadcast WLIR 107.1 from eastern Long Island, which has had a Christian format for several months, and is available on several other translators.
But checking the F.C.C. database, it appears that the application has already been dismissed, if I read it correctly.
Map Submitted With Application: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101448306&qnum=5110©num=1&exhcnum=3
The translator in Detroit that Martz Communications had tried to keep on the air despite interference complaints from WIOT FM was ordered to power down today by the F.C.C. It was rebroadcasting smooth jazz from an HD2.
Martz had tried to negotiate individually with the people that complained the translator was interfering with their reception of the Clear Channel rock station from nearby Ohio. Some were even given smartphones so they could listen to WIOT on IHeartRadio. Martz also reduced the signal broadcast by the translator in the direction of WIOT.
The F.C.C. basically said that interference is interference, and that negotiating with individual listeners is not an acceptable or even practical remedy.
Although this is naturally not a story based in the New York area, I believe the significance is that the outcome of this dispute makes it even harder to legally operate a translator in very crowded radio spectrum, such as what exists in the New York area.
Article in AllAccess: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...-orders-detroit-s-104-7-the-oasis-off-the-air
Martz had tried to negotiate individually with the people that complained the translator was interfering with their reception of the Clear Channel rock station from nearby Ohio. Some were even given smartphones so they could listen to WIOT on IHeartRadio. Martz also reduced the signal broadcast by the translator in the direction of WIOT.
The F.C.C. basically said that interference is interference, and that negotiating with individual listeners is not an acceptable or even practical remedy.
Although this is naturally not a story based in the New York area, I believe the significance is that the outcome of this dispute makes it even harder to legally operate a translator in very crowded radio spectrum, such as what exists in the New York area.
Article in AllAccess: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...-orders-detroit-s-104-7-the-oasis-off-the-air
Barry said:
Sounds to me like there must have been a very small group of people that reported the interference which is why the station was trying to negotiate with them. Offering smartphones is certainly not a practical option - I doubt the station was planning to pay for the monthly data plans for those smartphones!
I should start complaining about interference from "New Jersey 101.5" while listening to "101.9 FM News" - that way, I can try and talk Merlin into giving me a smartphone on which to listen to their station... they seem to be burning money in New York City these days... :
(Of course, I'd better make sure my approach is one that they'll buy, or they'll start throwing "FM News" air fresheners at me and throw me out. :-X )
(Of course, I'd better make sure my approach is one that they'll buy, or they'll start throwing "FM News" air fresheners at me and throw me out. :-X )
ansky212 said:
The FCC document says they were paying for the data plans.
However, the Commission wasn't convinced they'd continue to do so.
The question I'd ask...
The smartphones may address the interference situation for *current* WIOT listeners, but... How many people who aren't listening to WIOT right now, but might find they like the station in the future, will never learn of its existence due to interference from the translator? The translator's solution won't address that.
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