New FM allotments added back in Texas

[011nerve]

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The FCC has added seventeen vacant allotments back into the FM Table of Allotments after previous licenses or CPs were cancelled.
The allocations being re-added to be made available in a future auction are:
■ 93.5 (C2) – Junction TX
■ 105.9 (A) – Junction TX
■ 102.3 (C3) – Sonora TX"

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[011nerve]

How was the Junction 93.5 put back when a station exists there? https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=ky...=&lmspl=&party_type=LICEN&latd=&lond=&lang=en

 

[Ryan Williams]

That's a lot of allotments for what is a very small town with few ears.

 

[b-turner]

What Junction has is 2,376 within it's incorporated confines with 4,209 in the county. Already there are two FMs and 1 AM with a translator. Adding two additional frequencies is surely overkill. If the AM & one of the FMs wasn't owned by a company out of Kerrville with stations there and control the Junction and Sonora stations, I doubt they could survive.

Sonora has 2,395 people and 3,211 in the whole county. There had been an AM and FM here but a few years back the Kerrville group turned in the license to the AM. Before the purchase by the group out of Kerrville, the original owners only kept the station, the AM/FM simulcast (during daytime hours) until 7pm at one point due to financial reasons. Automation was the station's saving grace. A new FM here? Both might struggle.

 

[011nerve]

Also there's a new 103.3 FM in Junction, won at auction in 2021.
Same group that is also putting on 98.7 in Lufkin/Nacogdoches. https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=762286

 

[boiseengineer]

93.5 is probably a mistake.
"Cut/Copy Past" oops.