Re: [IRCA] loggings: WKDV-1460 & WRXB-1590

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

chris and anne wrote:
> WFLF  540  50KW day & 46 kw night is licensed to Pine Hills, Fl.  Pine Hills 
> is not a city, just a section of Orlando on the West side.....there is a 
> Pine Hills branch of te U.S. Post Office though.      Chris   K4NHL    S.C.

Their previous "COL" wasn't an incorporated city, either - it was 
Cypress Gardens, which is an amusement park!

There is not, and has never been, any requirement that a station's 
community of license be an incorporated community, and there have been 
plenty of "Pine Hills"-like cases over the years.

The FCC looks for a number of factors in deciding whether or not a 
community qualifies as a COL, including the existence of a post office, 
the presence of local businesses with the community's name in them, the 
existence of local services like a fire company and a school district, 
and so on. It's amusing sometimes (especially in FM allotment 
proceedings) to read the rationalizations from some of the proponents of 
tiny little "communities" seeking allocations...usually so the resulting 
station can rimshot some much bigger community elsewhere.

Like...say...Pine Hills or St. Pete Beach :-)

s
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