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WILD HASN'T BEEN ON THE AIR!

For the last three or four months that Salem ran extreme-right-wing talk on 1150 AM, they ran with the daytime pattern all the time. After the switch to Spanish-language "religion", they adhered to FCC rules apparently all the time. You could almost set your watch by their pattern changes (if anyone even wears watches any more; most people nowadays get their time from cell phones.)
 
WLYNgm said:
At one point a certain competitor was NOT powering down at night, as required. They were then claiming they had much better coverage than we did. NOT!
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But if I'm thinking of the correct competitor, one of their stations probably does have better night coverage than one of your stations. Their station is a Class C AM that runs several hundred watts at night; yours is a Class D that runs less than 100W at night. Now, their Class C is on a noisy graveyard channel and your Class D is on a regional channel, but I suspect that the two stations have pretty comparable NIFs. If so, the station that runs the higher power probably has somewhat better night coverage.
 
MarcB said:
Bob,

Their license is up for renewal in 2014. Sounds like a reason to deny a license renewal to me. Anyway last summer I contacted Rene Tetero at 990 in Philly (telling him that maybe another station on 990 could complain about WXCT) when WXCT wasn't powering down and a couple days after I contacted him WXCT started powering down again. Maybe I should send another email to him and he can go to the FCC.
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If the FCC denies their renewal (they won't) then what? I doubt if people will be lining up to put a new AM station on the air or if the FCC would even allow it.
 
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