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Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition



On 2/26/2016 12:34 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
Here's my response:

Iâm all for the changesâ And Iâm a DXer and broadcaster!!

Who cares about WGY in Boston or Pittsburgh? Who cares about KDKA in
Cincinatti or NYC?


That's not the real issue. The issue is who cares about WGY in Albany or about KDKA in Pittsburgh. These 50 kW stations are the *only* AMs at this point that reach even a significant majority of their markets after dark or during critical hours. Reduce the protection they now enjoy from incoming interference (or worse yet, reduce their power) and now those stations, too, fall beneath the noise floor for listeners *within* their own markets. You can't magically add new RF to clean AM channels somewhere *outside* a market without causing new interference *within* that market. Every attempt to cram new signals into the MW spectrum over the last 70 years has been testament to that truth.

As it stands, there are already entire markets - DC, for instance, Houston, Miami, among others - in which there is not even one AM station that can be clearly heard across the entire market. Eliminating more protection would only make that situation worse. It's a recipe for killing off the last remaining big-market AMs that actually draw listeners and make money.

I wrote about this at great length in my original comments on the FCC rulemaking from which this current proposal derives:

http://www.fybush.com/nerw-extra-our-am-improvement-filing/

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