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Tecate FM signs on

sdwulfdawg said:
What I was asking was that I thought it was a requirement for a station to have an engineer always available, always doing checking and doing transmitter readings, etc.
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As Jon says, the requirement for readings went away long ago.

Today, the station licensee is responsible for compliance with the technical regulations. If they think they can accomplish that without an engineer, that's legal. (until the transmitter & the FCC inspector's instruments prove they're wrong!)

I'm not in SD, but I STRONGLY suspect the major radio groups - Cox, Clear Channel, etc. - have an engineer or two on staff handling their clusters. Smaller stations usually contract with freelance engineers.
 
Clear Channel has a great staff of engineers over there. Bill Thompson there has forgot more about transmitters and readings than most will ever know.

CBS has a pair of Engineers for 2 radio stations.

LF has 2 engineers for their 3 stations.

KFMB has 2 engineers for their pair of stations.
 
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