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WROL 950 withdraws its application for 5 kW-N

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DanStrassberg

Today's FCC actions report that WROL's application, originally filed in 2004, has been withdrawn at the applicant's request. Had the facility been built, WROL would have changed its CoL from Boston to Revere and would have added two towers at its transmitter facility in Saugus. The 37+ mV/m NIF contour would have added no official coverage of the City of Boston, although, in fact, nighttime coverage of most of Boston, with the exception of Allston and Brighton, which are a good way inland and much more west than south of the Saugus Tx, would have been quite good. Sometimes an applicant requests that an application be withdrawn when it is about to request a CP for a technically superior proposal. Perhaps that is the case with this application.

If not, it would be very interesting to know what the problem was with the now-withdrawn application. Maybe the Saugus site has been classified as a wetland, in which case, no tower construction would be permitted there.
 
WETLAND!!!! ha ha ha ha

There used to be 3 towers there back in the WHDH days, and one of the tower bases is half way in the water where the river has eaten away at the "LAND" which is nothing more than a peat bog IMHO.

One good storm and that place will be under water. I kid you not when I tell you the elevetion above MSL is about 2 feet.

This is the second application Salem/WROL has recinded in recent memory. They filed an app to build up in back of Kappys on Rt. 1 on the Revere/Saugus line but pulled that to file the one they just pulled.

Too bad they couldn't build on the capped landfill just north of thier current location at the RESCO plant. It is only a few hundred yards up the road, great path to salt water, 3 towers would be a breeze, and they could rent space to MRBI's WLYN-AM to get them of that decrepit stick they are on in Caps junk yard.

There are just not a lot of places left you can build radio towers, and when you do find a peice of real estate you can afford and build on the NIMBY crowd shows up.

Everyone wants to listen to the radio, nobody wants it in thier back yard... kinda like airports.
 
At least 25 years ago, they applied to build a tranmitter-tower operation INSIDE the City Limits of Boston, which would have made WROL the only AM station licensed to Boston (or one of its nearby suburbs) to maintain a stick in Boston. (During the winter, I wonder if the shadows of the WMKK array in North Quincy fall over Boston territory.)
 
Well, technically Logan Airport's TIS station is licensed on 1650AM and is part of Boston proper in Eastie...isn't it? ;)
 
Laurence Glavin said:
At least 25 years ago, they applied to build a tranmitter-tower operation INSIDE the City Limits of Boston, which would have made WROL the only AM station licensed to Boston (or one of its nearby suburbs) to maintain a stick in Boston. (During the winter, I wonder if the shadows of the WMKK array in North Quincy fall over Boston territory.)
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That's the WMKI array in Quincy. WMKK is 93.7 "Mike FM" licensed to Lawrence. As for licensed AM sticks inside the city of Boston, don't forget the WBZ 1030 backup tower on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton. It's still a licensed operational backup as far as I know.
 
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