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Changes for WSCA Portsmouth....re: Northeast Radio Watch (fybush.com)


A NEW HAMPSHIRE low-power FM station is about to move down on the dial, and up in power. The Seacoast Arts and Cultural Alliance, which operates WSCA-LP (106.1 Portsmouth), applied back in 2007 for a full-power license in Dover on 89.5, where it ended up in a mutually-exclusive group with a Madbury application from the Granite State Educational Fellowship. Last week, the FCC awarded a tentative preference for the channel to the WSCA folks, contingent on the divestiture of the LPFM license.
 
This will be a curious move by SCA. Yes they got a new NCE FM, but it doesn't put 60dbu into downtown Portsmouth like their LPFM does. Frankly I'm not sure if it makes sense, especially when you consider the cost of a directional antenna. It might be easier to apply for a second LPFM in Dover when the next window opens.
 
Yea, this one doesn't make much sense to me either. I thought their purpose was to serve the local Portsmouth community?
 
kc1ih said:
Yea, this one doesn't make much sense to me either. I thought their purpose was to serve the local Portsmouth community?
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The question is what will happen to the LPFM station on 106.1? THey can't keep it.
 
They have to divest themselves of the LPFM once program tests begin for the new NCE-FM, so it's a decision they don't have to make right now. They can either turn the 106.1 license into the FCC or find another worthy local group to take it over. They cannot sell the LPFM license but I suppose they could get some money if they sold some equipment.

PTR
 
It may be the difference between having a Class A license, and a secondary service LPFM which, like a translator, could be bumped by a change by a full-power station.


kc1ih said:
Yea, this one doesn't make much sense to me either. I thought their purpose was to serve the local Portsmouth community?
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promotherobot said:
They have to divest themselves of the LPFM once program tests begin for the new NCE-FM, so it's a decision they don't have to make right now. They can either turn the 106.1 license into the FCC or find another worthy local group to take it over. They cannot sell the LPFM license but I suppose they could get some money if they sold some equipment.

PTR
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NH is a strange place for radio. You have the state run radio network, WSCA, and a new NCE. From a business point of view, I would give the license back to the FCC. Does the new NCE, that has been struggling for years, need another station (the present WSCA) to be taking donations away from the NCE?
 
State run radio network? If you are referring to NHPR, they are a private foundation which receives some government funding, but mostly is funded by listeners and corporate donations, and is certainly not run by the state.
 
kc1ih said:
State run radio network? If you are referring to NHPR, they are a private foundation which receives some government funding, but mostly is funded by listeners and corporate donations, and is certainly not run by the state.
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No I meant state run radio. I worked for NHPTV and helped construct the studios in Concord before they went on the air many years ago. It is all state run. The TV station was in Concord every day kissing butt in their newscasts for funding. In fact, we would interview almost all of the state congressional people when it came to vote for funding. The stuff never got on the air but they all voted to fund the network.
 
NHPTV and NHPR are not the same beast. Their funding sources and the nature of their licensees are quite different.
 
Scott Fybush said:
NHPTV and NHPR are not the same beast. Their funding sources and the nature of their licensees are quite different.
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Perhaps NHPR's funding has changed over the years but when it went on the air it was primarily funded by the state.
 
I can't speak to the early funding structure of NHPR. I do know that currently, it receives no state funding at all. If you believe NHPR's financial report, which is posted on their website for all to see, it gets about 90% of its funding from membership and underwriting. "Grants and misc." make up the rest.

The NHPTV stations are licensed to UNH and operate from state-owned studio and transmitter facilities. NHPR is owned by an independent nonprofit.

This is, it should be noted, a different structure from what you'll find in other New England states with statewide public broadcasting. In Connecticut and Maine, radio and TV are under common ownership with some degree of state involvement (more so in Maine than CT); in Vermont, VPR is entirely independent while VPT has (had?) some state funding. In RI, RIPTV/WSBE is still licensed to a state agency but is funded independently, IIRC; RI Public Radio/WRNI is entirely independent.
 
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