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Tougaloo College seeks to acquire WUFX

Will they seek to change the allocation to non-com, or will they try to operate a commercial station?
 
It's hard to figure out exactly what is going on here, but I bet part it of has to do with spectrum auctions. That's main reason I can see for Tougaloo to own the station, but not handle the day-to-day operations. They probably get some income now and a payoff several years down the road. AMS probably can take nice tax writeoff since the station is being sold below market value.
 
Pab Sungenis said:
Will they seek to change the allocation to non-com, or will they try to operate a commercial station?
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Couldn't they leave it as a commercial station as far as the FCC is concerned but otherwise run it as a non-comm?
 
"Couldn't they leave it as a commercial station as far as the FCC is concerned but otherwise run it as a non-comm?"

Sure, it's been done. For many years, WNED in Buffalo was on a commercially allocated channel in the record books (the license had been donated by NBC, which had operated its predecessor on Channel 17 from 1955 to 1958). That allocation was later switched to a noncomm reservation so sister station WNEQ ch. 23, which operated on Buffalo's officially reserved educational channel, could be switched to a commercial allocation, sold to LIN Broadcasting and operated commercially as CW affiliate WNLO.

IIRC New York's WNET Ch. 13 is on a channel that is still legally a commercial allocation...although it's owned and operated by an educational non-profit chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, like every other public radio and TV station in the state, and hasn't operated commercially since it first became an educational station 50 years ago.
 
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