> (In any event, WAVM does have a share-time agreement in the
> works as well; if it can win its bid to get a class A signal
> after all, it will share hours with a simulcast of WUMB.)
Speaking of which, WUMB has a letter writing and petition campaign to the FCC under way against yet another application for another religious station/translator allegedly being proposed for 100 watts at 91.7 in Lexington by an Idaho based organization called "Calvary Satellite Network" (CSN International).
According to WUMB, the granting of the CSN International application in Lexington is dependent on a compromise that was proposed by Living Proof involving a directional antenna pattern between their new Lunenberg application and WAVM's signal which Living Proof claims would allow both their application and WAVM to broadcast. According to the NPR story and also to WUMB's account of the situation, Living Proof proposed this compromise due to increasing local community and political support for WAVM and against their Lunenberg application.
According to WUMB's account, the original proposed non-directional Lunenberg signal from Living Proof would not have allowed CSN an opening for an application in Lexington, but the possibility of the Living Proof/WAVM directional compromise happening and thereby tentatively allowing CSN their Lexington opening has concerned WUMB that CSN's Lexington application, if granted, would severely impact their first adjacent 91.9 main signal transmitting from Quincy in many north and west suburbs of greater Boston in which, though technically outside their "protected contour", WUMB can be heard on any good quality receiver and in which reside a signficant amount of their listenership.
The CSN Lexington 91.7 application I would assume would also severly impact adjacent WMFO 91.5 Tufts University any more than a mile or two west of Tufts. WMFO is already directionally nulled to the west, so I don't think their "protected contour" extends more than a couple of miles in that direction from Medford, but it's another situation where they can be heard on quality receivers in some of those northwest suburbs within Route 128 even in the null.
However, according to the NPR story, WAVM turned down Living Proof's proposed directional antenna compromise offer last week, which I gather may also prohibit CSN from seeking their Lexington application, if that scenario was indeed the case. I don't know if the possibility that WAVM's denying of Living Proof their directional proposal could possibly have been partially based on any knowledge that in doing so, they may have also effectively denied CSN International their alleged Lexington application, which would benefit both WAVM and WUMB (and indirectly WMFO, though I haven't heard about them being involved in any action).
