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WTDA, Riverlea

dawg4life said:
Riverlea annexation headed toward Worthington council vote.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/24/copy/riverlea-annexation-headed-toward-vote.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Will this hinder any chance of WTDA moving their city of license to Riverlea?
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I'm no expert on this, but it would seem that if Riverlea ceased to exist that would kill the proposed move.  And I'm guessing the annexation will happen if only because WTDA can never seem to catch a break as far as upgrades.  Besides, if it really seemed a stretch when CC and its ace lawyers were able to justify 93.3's move to tiny Ashville -- population approx 4000  -- how was WTDA going to justify true independent-municipality status for a village of 545?

For that matter, I wonder why neither WTDA, nor anyone else, has ever made any attempt to move to Worthington, the burb that surrounds Riverlea?  Seems like just about every other suburb of any size (and numerous smaller ones) now has a station.  At the moment the only other exceptions I can think of are Reynoldsburg, Grandview and Bexley (isn't WCRX-LP actually licensed to Columbus?).  I'm sure it has to do with spacing, and choosing the optimal opportunity to cover Columbus, but it still seems strange.
 
dawg4life said:
Will this hinder any chance of WTDA moving their city of license to Riverlea?
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If Worthington annexes Riverlea, this pending WTDA appears to be null and void.

Nu_Roo_2 said:
For that matter, I wonder why neither WTDA, nor anyone else, has ever made any attempt to move to Worthington, the burb that surrounds Riverlea? Seems like just about every other suburb of any size (and numerous smaller ones) now has a station. At the moment the only other exceptions I can think of are Reynoldsburg, Grandview and Bexley (isn't WCRX-LP actually licensed to Columbus?). I'm sure it has to do with spacing, and choosing the optimal opportunity to cover Columbus, but it still seems strange.
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Maybe because WRFD already has a licensed a dual city ID, WRFD, COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON?
 
Re: WTDA, Westerville

Looks like WTDA has revised its application and plans to stay part of Westerville, but they still are applying to move to the site west of downtown with protection toward Dayton's WXEG

From FCC Application
By operating with an effective radiated power of 6.0 kilowatts at 87.3 meters
HAAT, WTDA(FM) will not overlap protected or interfering contours with WPAY-FM. A
directional antenna pattern will be utilized to protect WXEG(FM) from contour overlap.
 
Nu_Roo_2 said:
gabigley1 said:
Their new proposed coverage map is on page two here:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101427130&qnum=5260&copynum=1&exhcnum=2
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Thanks for the link. Wonder if the relocation would allow them to join the elite group of Class A's that are able to avoid the dreaded "Dispatch Tower Curse" downtown and in nearby areas?
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No, likely not.

WCVO puts 6kw into Columbus and still has issues downtown near the Dispatch Towers. 103.9 will likely still have the same issue from it's west side stick. (maybe a little less but will likely still suffer some)

Looks like the only thing they did was amend their request to move tower sites to not include a COL change.. same tower site that they had wanted to move to on the west side.
 
Assuming they are still pursuing this move, WTDA should be happy to see that the proposed annexation of Riverlea to Worthington was defeated by voters last night.

Even if it's possible to have an unincorporated-area city-of-license (as per SonoSational18's post), I would imagine Nabco has a stronger case if it's a real municipality.
 
Its been about 14 months since NABCO applied for this COL and tower site change. The FCC has yet to approve it. You would think the FCC would have approved or dismissed this application by now.
 
gabigley1 said:
Its been about 14 months since NABCO applied for this COL and tower site change. The FCC has yet to approve it. You would think the FCC would have approved or dismissed this application by now.
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Look at the great translator invasion of 2003... The FCC doesn't always quickly handle things = )
 
SonoSational18 said:
"Can you have a city of license for a town/city that is not incorporated?"
Yes. Happens quite frequently.
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There is a full power commercial FM that is licensed to an Air Force Base, obviously proving that there is no limit to the goofy things the FCC will do.
 
IIRC, the COL standard is a "Census designated place".

If it shows up in the Census reports, it can be a COL. That'd probably explain the Air Force Base.
 
Re: WTDA, Westerville

WTDA amended the application back in May to keep the COL Westerville, but still move the Transmitter to the new location. After the town of Riverlea, filed to block the move because they didn't want to be associated with the Radio Station.

Also sloweing down the application is Franklin Communications (Saga) who is trying everthing they can to keep the move from happening. Maybe bacause they still want to move 104.3 and maybe to protect 103.5
 
Just looked more closely at the WTDA FCC application. They added that amendment on June 15 to keep the the COL in Westerville.
Thanks to Allfirdup for updating us on this as this change as it wasn't readily apparent at first glance that Nabco wanted to keep Westerville
as their COL:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1431742

Here are all the objections filed by by Franklin Communications (Saga) and the town of Riverlea.

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...cation_id=1431742&File_number=BPH-20101004ACN

This is slowing down the WTDA app. process. I didn't realized they had all these objections filed against their proposed tower move.

So, WTDA applied to move it's COL from Westerville to Riverlea, then to Worthington and now they want keep it in Westerville. My head is spinning.
Why on earth would Riverlea care if WTDA moved it's COL to there? Sounds silly to me.
Franklin Communications (Saga) may be trying to protect any future plans for moving 104.3 closer to Columbus and the proposed WTDA tower
move would prevent 104.3 from moving it's tower closer to Columbus. Just a guess but as I thought Saga gave up on moving 104.3 closer
to Columbus when the 104.9 tower site move blew up their(Saga) original Columbus move in application.
 
From what I read WCVO was to move into Deleware County in Walnut township but residents in the area voted against them building the tower there so they ended up getting put on a cellphone tower on Hamilton Rd north of Morse next to a Home Depot. Due to that move falling through Saga's move of WNNP 104.3 was rejected.
 
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