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WFME sale = a very happy day for WPST?

J

JerseyShor

Once WFME is sold it will likely be moved into NYC, much farther away from WPST (currently just 52 miles away).

Does this mean that PST can open up its directional pattern? Or is a reduction of interference the best PST can hope for?

Either way, it looks like PST can begin targeting Middlesex/Somerset/Union in the near future. (They already trend around a 1.5 in M/S/U now)
 
WFME cannot be easily moved to the east due to being shortspaced to various stations around the region, including WMAS in Enfield CT. And PST still has to contend with co-channel WDAC and adjacent channel WJLK if they want to attempt to go non-d. Scott Fybush can explain better than I can - in face, I believe he has over on the NYC page why WFME is boxed in pretty tight.

The best is that they can hope for is some reduced interference in M/S/U, and thats if WFME somehow gets shoehorned in off of 4 Times Square or Empire.

Here's what Scott Fybush said re: WFME moving -

"I dig pretty deeply into the allocations issues in this morning's NERW column over at fybush.com...Freebird is right on track with his comments, and I'd add a few more points:

-WIGX and WRKI are non-factors; under pre-1964 grandfathering, there's no protection to second-adjacent stations, which is how 93.5 and 96.7 moved into the Bronx.

-Moving to any NYC site (4TS, ESB, Freedom Tower) would decrease the interference between WFME and WPST. It is not clear to me, from a quick read of 73.213, whether a buyer of WFME could use that interference reduction to help offset an increase in interference to WMAS.

-There is a provision in 73.213 that allows a station to make a "public interest" showing to outweigh increased interference, especially if they can demonstrate that areas receiving new interference have at least five other full-time broadcast services. I don't recall this provision being successfully invoked any time recently.

-There is no aperture available at Empire (to the best of my knowledge) for a new directional FM antenna. The rent for a standalone FM antenna there could well be prohibitive. There's a reason everyone else on Empire combines into one of two master antennas.

The scenario is definitely different depending on whether Citadel or anyone else gets 94.7. Citadel has lots of options for downgrading WMAS to make a NYC 94.7 work; conversely, it can use WMAS as a convenient blocker to thwart anyone else's attempts to upgrade WFME."
 
That was actually an older comment of mine; subsequently, as a review of the threads on the NYC board will show, the consensus seems to be that WIGX on Long Island is actually very much in the way, and there's essentially no easy path for WFME to move into Manhattan.

WPST is where it is. It's not going to become a Middlesex/Somerset/Union signal.
 
Scott Fybush said:
That was actually an older comment of mine; subsequently, as a review of the threads on the NYC board will show, the consensus seems to be that WIGX on Long Island is actually very much in the way, and there's essentially no easy path for WFME to move into Manhattan.

WPST is where it is. It's not going to become a Middlesex/Somerset/Union signal.
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My apologies - I just spent the last hour or so reading the thread, and that was the 1st comment I saw from you on the topic.

94.5 was always a dog of a signal in Monmouth & Northern Ocean due to WJLK, and in M/S/U because of WFME. It essentially is a Trenton/Mercer County/Hunterdon station on the Jersey side. I remember growing up in Monmouth County having issues getting then WNJO because of interference from JLK, and it drove me nuts. In the car, the signal is OK, but on a tabletop or portable that isn't a XDR-F1HD or Insignia HD? Forget it.
 
If 94.7 had HD, WPST wouldn't be listenable north of South Brunswick. It's doubtful the new owners of 94.7 will downgrade it to HD knowing that it will have zero return on investment.

Besides, WPST has a lot more to worry about than interference in M/S/U: Nassau's about to go bankrupt
 
Nick said:
If 94.7 had HD, WPST wouldn't be listenable north of South Brunswick. It's doubtful the new owners of 94.7 will downgrade it to HD knowing that it will have zero return on investment.

Besides, WPST has a lot more to worry about than interference in M/S/U: Nassau's about to go bankrupt
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PST is up for auction, and i'm sure PST is more interested in opening up the signal to more of Philadelphia, WDAC beats up PST pretty harshly even 20 miles from it's stick.

Plus, there is also a WDSD (94.7 Dover) that remains. They'd be able to move north more, they consider themselves a Wilmington station like PST considers them a Philadelphia station.
 
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