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Translator doesn't have to share AM tower

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vchimpanzee

Today for the first time I found out why I've been hearing music when I pass the tower for what was the local Rush Limbaugh station.

I heard a station ID, and it's the oldies station. The former Rush affiliate has used the tower for a quarter of a century or however long, but the interference I was getting on a weak station playing Christmas music was the oldies station.

The AM tower for the oldies station is in a different part of town, since the stations were not co-owned until it was possible to have two AMs owned by the same company in the same market.

Now I don't know where the translator that aired Rush has its tower. Could be the same tower as its AM, I guess, but I didn't hear its programming interfering with my Christmas music.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Today for the first time I found out why I've been hearing music when I pass the tower for what was the local Rush Limbaugh station.

I heard a station ID, and it's the oldies station. The former Rush affiliate has used the tower for a quarter of a century or however long, but the interference I was getting on a weak station playing Christmas music was the oldies station.

The AM tower for the oldies station is in a different part of town, since the stations were not co-owned until it was possible to have two AMs owned by the same company in the same market.

Now I don't know where the translator that aired Rush has its tower. Could be the same tower as its AM, I guess, but I didn't hear its programming interfering with my Christmas music.
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No translators dont have to share the am tower of the originating station, never did and to do so in some cases would be stupid.

You need to proved location and call letter frequency details for this to make much sense
 
We have a couple in my area - AM towers with an FM sister station's antenna mounted at the top. They are very much a compromise - neither the AM nor the FM signal is particularly good, but the savings in not having to rent two sites may well make it worth the slightly lower signal for the broadcaster.
 
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