Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] KLIB-1110 off the air

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The FCC hasn't allowed it - yet. Anybody can file a petition with the 
FCC asking for pretty much anything, and at this point this is still in 
the petition stage.

The argument that the petitioners are making is that the FCC has 
effectively (if not efficiently) given up on the X band. Since the 
initial window for X-band migration, which was more than a decade ago, 
there have been no more filing windows for new X-banders, and large 
parts of the country still have no local service on the X-band. Some of 
the stations given the opportunity to move (940 Fresno, for instance) 
decided to stay put on the existing band, and others (1700 Miami) tried 
the X-band but decided they were better off keeping their old facility 
and returning the X-band. So the conclusion they come to is that the 
original purpose of the X-band migration - reducing interference on the 
existing band - was not fulfilled.

Working from that premise, they argue that the public interest is better 
served by allowing the handful of existing band stations that would have 
to go silent to stay on the air instead.

I think the best case they'll have is in places like Madison, where the 
move of WTDY 1480 to 1670 freed up 1480 to become the city's first and 
only Spanish station. Remember, this - like everything at the FCC - is 
all about politics in the end, and it doesn't look good for the FCC to 
be "silencing" the city's only Spanish radio voice.

And even if these stations are silenced, at the next major change window 
someone's bound to apply for similar facilities anyway. (It already 
happened in the 2004 window for the very few frequencies - 1370 Sussex 
WI and 1390 in Des Moines, for instance - that had already been vacated 
during the transition.) So that's another nail in the "interference 
reduction" argument.

s

Patrick Martin wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> Why in the world did the FCC allow such a loop hole? Everything I read
> in the beginning was that when the 5 year period was up, one of the two
> stations would have to sign off forever. Why even adopt of X Band if
> this is the case? I have talked to several X Band CEs and they stated,
> that this was a wonderful thing, the X Band, as we can not just have one
> station, but two. So many had no plans to lose either station from the
> beginning. So what did we end up with, more statios.
>    
> 
> 73,
> 
> Patrick 
> 
> Patrick Martin
> 
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