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This One Puzzles Me

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R.D.P.

This one puzzles me. I can't seem to figure it out. Who is Southern Cultral Foundation? What's their programming like? I'm just curious because of this info, I found while visiting REC Networks Web Site:

http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq_legacy.php?facid=176371

Although the station is licensed to Moulton, the map shows the tower located a few miles West of Selma Alabama. Moody is fixing to sign on at 89.5 and this new app calls for this station to be located at 89.7. These two stations will be awfully close to each other, from the way I see it.

I don't think the 89.7 app will see the light of day but I may wrong.

Someone with more knowledge, please tell me what's going on. I'm just not getting it.

R.D.P. <><
 
RDP, I wouldn't worry about it. Since the Selma station already has a construction permit, the other station will be rejected because it waaaay to close to be a first adjacent.

I don't know anything about Southern Cultural Foundation, but they transferred a license to a Starkvills, MS religious station to American Family Association back in the late 90's. I'm not sure they actually run any stations now.
 
R.D.P. said:
Although the station is licensed to Moulton, the map shows the tower located a few miles West of Selma Alabama. Moody is fixing to sign on at 89.5 and this new app calls for this station to be located at 89.7. These two stations will be awfully close to each other, from the way I see it.

I don't think the 89.7 app will see the light of day but I may wrong.
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There are quite a few patently defective applications in the original FCC data on which the recnet site is based. Two Class A stations applied for 3,000kW (I'm betting they meant 3,000 Watts); a 70kW Class B station near Milwaukee (the power limit for Class B is 50kW), a 1-watt Class D station on 91.9 in NYC, (no new Class D operations are being authorized outside Alaska) applicants misspelling their city-of-license, (where the heck is "Honnolulu"?) stuff like that.

I'd imagine this is one of them.
 
I saw this app, on the FCC's web site too.  The COL is for Moulton but the station's coverage map is for Dallas County and Selma.

Last time I checked, there is no Moulton here in Dallas County. The only one I know of is located, in Northwest Alabama, near Decatur.

This app smells fishy to me, since Moody is fixing to sign on at years end.

R.D.P. <><
 
Hi Dan,

I also took a look at this.

The Moody station holds a construction permit, and according to an article I read recently, will likely be signing on in December. This CP was granted way before any windows opened this year.

There's just no way the FCC will approve a first adjacent station this close, since this is only an application for a CP that was filed on 10/22/07. I don't believe this new outfit will be able to get a CP.

Every "i" must be dotted and every "t" crossed with these apps. A CP here for a station on 880 AM was deleted earlier this year due to defects in the application. Now nobody's getting 880. Period.

I believe you'll get your Moody station shortly, based on what I've looked at this evening.
 
Thanks for all your help, Mr. Alan and everyone else that did respond.  Just contacted the station manager of WRNF radio (Rob Moore) and he's going to "Check into It".  Even sent him some contact info, for this outfit.

Hope you're right, Mr. Alan.  I'm looking forward to hearing this station, once it does hit the airwaves.

I may not like everything Moody stands for but I'm glad they're coming back to my hometown, since we needed them.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. Since we're on the subject, I wonder how many of these "New App's", will be rejected due to interference issues? Just curious, since so many was filed in the last window.
 
R.D.P. said:
P.S. Since we're on the subject, I wonder how many of these "New App's", will be rejected due to interference issues? Just curious, since so many was filed in the last window.
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Someone much smarter than me can give a real answer, but in my limited experience the vast majority of applications are rejected. Most of those seem to come from mutually exclusive apps, where you have more than one application for the same channel.

As for technical mistakes, it does happen but not very much. Methinkst it very expensive to get to the point of submitting an application, therefore one wants all their i's crossed and their t's dotted, as Alan (almost) said. ;D
 
Greetings from St. Paul, MN... FWIW, this Southern Cultural Foundation also has an app in Crawford, Nebraska (which I noticed while reading a list of apps on an upper-Midwest-specific radio site). Not sure what rural Nebraska has in common with the South, aside from conservative-leaning politics and a high number of religious adherents... which certainly squares with Zach's info about the SCF previously transferring a license to Wildmon & Co.
 
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