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Re: [IRCA] WAMG - 890
Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
It doesnt matter where the towers are, as long as the studio is 25 miles or
less from the city of license.. and that is usually measured from the edge
of one city to the edge of the other, not city center to city center.. as
far as I know.
Plus, if the City the radio station is in is served by a major, full power
tv station, the studio can be up to 65 miles away.
Please don't guess at the rules if you don't know what they are, Paul,
especially when it takes all of five seconds of Google searching to turn
up an authoritative source (http://www.fcc.gov/mb/policy/main.html). The
actual rules are pretty simple:
The legal main studio must be within 25 miles of the city of license
(measured from the studio location to the reference coordinates of the
COL), or within the principal community contour of any station licensed
to the same community.
There's nothing in the rules about "major, full power TV stations" or
"65 miles away." In fact, the distance can be far greater - any station
licensed to New York City can have its main studio as far afield as New
London, Connecticut, for instance, since the principal community
contours of New York-licensed WFAN 660 and WCBS 880 encompass New London.
WAMG's transmitter site, day and night, is in Ashland, by the way - it's
WBIX 1060 that's a split-site operation, daytime at the now-former WKOX
1200 site in Framingham, nighttime at WAMG's Ashland site.
s
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