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Public Interest

Any station in the market who voice tracks more than 50% of their broadcast day isn't serving the public. If a major crisis happened the average listener wouldn't know it by tuning in.
 
The term "public interest" has never been defined, and to the best of my knowledge, has never been cited by the FCC as the sole reason for revoking a station license. Over 20 years ago, I personally was part of a group that challenged the license of a totally automated radio station and the FCC didn't even consider our petition. The station's license was renewed automatically.

If a major crisis happens, local emergency officials are supposed to enact the EAS system, which is designed to automatically pre-empt regular programming.
 
TheBigA said:
If a major crisis happens...the EAS system...is designed to automatically pre-empt regular programming.
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Too automatically in the case of WKCP with their automated weather alerts.
 
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