Baton Rouge WPYR 1380 proposes dropping power/towers

[RFLA]

Courtesy of: FCC Report 6/14: Pair Of Texas FMs Face Cancellation Over Unpaid Regulatory Fees


Catholic Community Radio’s 1380 WPYR Baton Rouge LA proposes to eliminate two of its three towers switching from directional to non-directional status as it drops from 5kW day/62w night to 1.35kW day/65w night.

This was the old WYNK AM which has been sold numerous times and has been catholic talk since roughly 2010 with a translator on 105.1 in Baton Rouge.

 

[kevtronics]

How can they actually increase their nighttime power by a few watts by going from directional to non-directional?

 

[secondchoice]

With AM stations downgrading or going dark almost daily, there is a good chance whoever was in the directional null has downgraded their night signal or just gone away completely. There used to a page on the FCC site that listed every station on a frequency their power and class. Then there are the D stations which I often miss.

Since the commission "upgraded" the site it's not worth dealing with unless you are actually filling with the commission. I believe 1380 was one of the old regional channels. The nighttime protections were not as good as one of the old chear channels.