What happens to 106.9's translators?

[ajhenderson]

With Family Radio moving to AM only on 610, and Infinity/CBS assuming 106.9 programming, what happens to the translators licensed feverishly by recent translator invasions? Are these active right now - and if so, will they stay active? If so, will folks in Roanoke, VA, Scranton, PA, and a lot of other places soon be getting a new talk station, along with Bay Area traffic, news, and weather? What is the translator law?

 

[RickRose]

> With Family Radio moving to AM only on 610, and Infinity/CBS
> assuming 106.9 programming, what happens to the translators
> licensed feverishly by recent translator invasions? Are
> these active right now - and if so, will they stay active?
> If so, will folks in Roanoke, VA, Scranton, PA, and a lot of
> other places soon be getting a new talk station, along with
> Bay Area traffic, news, and weather? What is the translator
> law?
>

The translators now pick up Family Radio's signal from 88.1 KEAR-FM in Sacramento (formerly KEDR-FM). How a 106.9 got permission to translate across the country is beyond me (unless the non-commercial status allows this).

 

[KMRichards]

> The translators now pick up Family Radio's signal from 88.1
> KEAR-FM in Sacramento (formerly KEDR-FM). How a 106.9 got
> permission to translate across the country is beyond me
> (unless the non-commercial status allows this).

You are correct in that thought, sir.

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[CKidd]

> > >
>
> The translators now pick up Family Radio's signal from 88.1
> KEAR-FM in Sacramento (formerly KEDR-FM). How a 106.9 got
> permission to translate across the country is beyond me
> (unless the non-commercial status allows this).
>
Chris Kidd replies;

Yes we did discuss this before.

The non-commerical rules allow you to rebroadcast a station with a satellite feed regardless of its location. The re-broadcast may be anywhere in the country. This is provided that the FM translator is in the reserved band of 88.1 to 91.9 Mhz.

A non-commerical FM translator may operate in the commerical band. However in this case it may only re-broadcast a non-commerical station that it can pick up off the air and not a satellite feed.

CK