Newburyport Gets New FM?

[DCBurns]

Looks like 106.1 formaley of Sanford Maine, may be coming to WNBP in Newburyport, MA. Port Broadcasting is the buyer and Dennis Jackson, the seller. If it's the same Port Broadcasting as the Strube/Falconi machine.

 

[Don Juannn]

Looks like 106.1 formaley of Sanford Maine, may be coming to WNBP in Newburyport, MA. Port Broadcasting is the buyer and Dennis Jackson, the seller. If it's the same Port Broadcasting as the Strube/Falconi machine.

Considering what a tough (but well done) effort it is to run WNBP in the black, I am surprised anyone would want to move it to Newburyport.

Also, has Dennis Jackson had much success with his operations?

 

[Deleted User]

I'd like to know how they are not going to interfere with first adjacent WFNQ out of Nashua, and/or WCOD 106.1 down on the Cape that has a 50KW signal that is borderline into that area


If they are able to squeeze it in there, which is fine with me, maybe the FCC will finally act upon the 106.1 pirate in Boston. It seems they never act unless someone who is paying for a license complains.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I often wonder if the "rules" are tossed out with translators. Before WNNW's 92.1 translator went on-the-air, both 92.1s in northern New England could be heard in parts of the Merrimack Valley. And there's a 99.9 on Silver Hill in Haverhill, while 99.9s are on-the-air in Athol, MA, Barnstable, MA and Auburn, ME.

 

[necrat123]

I'd like to know how they are not going to interfere with first adjacent WFNQ out of Nashua, and/or WCOD 106.1 down on the Cape that has a 50KW signal that is borderline into that area

WCOD won't be a concern. It's well clear of WCOD. WFNQ will be one , WROR could be one.

If they are able to squeeze it in there, which is fine with me, maybe the FCC will finally act upon the 106.1 pirate in Boston. It seems they never act unless someone who is paying for a license complains.

The FCC never acted on the 105.5 in Worcester that's interfering with the 105.3 translator from Fitchburg.

I often wonder if the "rules" are tossed out with translators. Before WNNW's 92.1 translator went on-the-air, both 92.1s in northern New England could be heard in parts of the Merrimack Valley. And there's a 99.9 on Silver Hill in Haverhill, while 99.9s are on-the-air in Athol, MA, Barnstable, MA and Auburn, ME.

All legal Laurence. The 92.1 translator is operating legally spaced from WFEX and WPHX. Same with 99.9 in Haverhill, which is fully spaced to everyone.
There is no "tossing of the rules" for these translators.

 

[raccoonradio]

http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html

>>There's a new FM translator en route to the North Shore of MASSACHUSETTS, or so it would seem from the $80,000 sale of what's now W291CC (106.1 Sanford, Maine) from Dennis Jackson to Port Broadcasting, LLC

(12/6 edition) He goes on to say it may take awhile to shift the license down to the North Shore
and that the WNBP folks are behind it

 

[JIBGUY]

It's possible that they may place it in or at the edge of the legal AM signal to increase coverage in some places where WNBP cannot be heard at night, which are places just 12-or-so miles from the station; perhaps up the coast a bit in NH. Placing it in Newburyport is rather redundant since the older audience is quite familiar and friendly with AM radio.

 

[Early Byrd]

I'd like to know how they are not going to interfere with first adjacent WFNQ out of Nashua, and/or WCOD 106.1 down on the Cape that has a 50KW signal that is borderline into that area


Strict directional FM signal, maybe? Sometimes we forget that there are "directional" FM stations.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>they may place it in or at the edge of the legal AM signal to increase coverage in some places where WNBP cannot be heard at night, which are places just 12-or-so miles from the station;

kind of like what happened it places like Concord NH and Keene NH
CONCORD: WKXL 1450 also on W280EC (103.9)
KEENE: WKBK 1290 also on W281AU 104.1

I suppose if Keating Willcox had gotten that 103.7 W279BQ licensed to Gloucester (but the stick
is in Salem) rather than the WSMA owners, he could have simulcast WNSH 1570 on that freq
since the signal barely gets out of Beverly at night...same general idea

 

[robotique]

formaley

!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[DG02816]

"formaley" should be, formerly. Sounds like the Internet needs grammar police.....

 

[Laurence Glavin]

I often wonder if the "rules" are tossed out with translators. Before WNNW's 92.1 translator went on-the-air, both 92.1s in northern New England could be heard in parts of the Merrimack Valley. And there's a 99.9 on Silver Hill in Haverhill, while 99.9s are on-the-air in Athol, MA, Barnstable, MA and Auburn, ME.

W244CF just south of Plymouth broadcasts on 96.7 where one would expect some protection for WTKKK (3 Ks because no person of color is allowed to host a talk show there any more).