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Wisconsin LPFM shut down

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From the Wisconsin Board:
WNRB-LP, Wausau, Wisconsin, has gone silent, as the licensee, Northcentral Technical College (NTC) decided the station and its $75,000 costs were too much. It shut the station down on August 31, and according to a spokesperson, has surrendered the license to the Commission. The station volunteers are hoping to get the school to transfer it to them, but it may be too late. In addition, this station has been operating under program test authority (or under the impression it was) since 2005. It has never filed for a license to cover, and the CP expires in November. This would also complicate matters, in trying to get all this done before the CP expires. There is an article in the Wausau Daily Herald. http://tinyurl.com/s9kfj
 
NTC was pretty rude not to give it to the community, or at least offer it to the volunteers before surrendering the license like that. Just my two cents...

Tom Johnson
CAT-AM 580
 
This is just the kind of evidence the NAB needs to proclaim the LPFM service a failure. Already some in the FCC have remarked that LPFM has not lived up to expectation.

Nevermind that the FCC is partly to blame for the disappointing results.

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WNRB was a joke. The sound quality sounded like it was all coming out of a telephone and they never said anything. It was just back to back music.

LPFM is successful in some areas. A fine example would be WRLR-LP in Round Lake, IL (www.wrlr.fm) which is very active in its community and well known as well.
 
Hi everyone:
Ultanium said:
NTC was pretty rude not to give it to the community, or at least offer it to the volunteers before surrendering the license like that. Just my two cents...
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You're forgetting one thing Tom. The station was run by a college, which is itself run by a bunch of suits who know nothing about how radio works (Nor do they even give a damn!).

All they saw in it was a waste of $$$. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Now if they had gone the true Part 15 route instead of setting up a so-called "more conventional, full-blown" LPFM station, I'd be willing to bet that station would still be on the air today.

Thoughts anyone?

Cheers :D
 
Pat, you said;
Now if they had gone the true Part 15 route instead of setting up a so-called "more conventional, full-blown" LPFM station
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...they would have a great hobby and hardly any coverage. NObody in the place had a clue, from the university brass to the board ops.

Would you rather have a BICYCLE or a CAR? That's the difference between part 15 and THE REAL THING.
 
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