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O.T.A. radio very much alive

J

johnbasalla

With all of the new stations that have been allowed to sign on over the past few years, can we now finally and officially bury the B.S. that "radio is dying"? Boy, people and corporations sure want to start up and own new O.T.A. radio stations, particularly on the FM band.
 
If you mean translators, then there have been a lot of "new" stations.
 
Both translators and regular stations. Wow. What a growth spurt. Both cost money to get up and running.
The regular stations include the 91.9 facility in Brunswick (25,000 watts) which came on, what was it, last year?
 
Not to mention the Denny/Marge Hazen Faith Ministry stations on 90.1 East Sparta/Bolivar/Canton and 90.9 Carrollton..Bible Broadcasting Network just upgraded their 88.1 translator-Now WYFY in Cambridge, Ohio and WHVY on 89.5 just came on in the last year from Coshocton..
 
Its a much different picture here in Virginia, but with the dial so full anyway, I guess new stations aren't going to come on very much anymore. They just keep flipping formats and adding low-power translators on every empty adjacent. Lots of duplication of signals is really all its resulted in here.
 
The thing I don't like is when the FCC, in their zest to license new facilities, puts a new station on the same frequency (or immediate adjacant) to an already existing station and causes the established station to experience interference because there's not enough distance between the two facilities and/or they allow the new station to have too much power.
 
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