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Big signal move?

Right and their CP would have their COL being Boston

>>I don’t know if that means it is testing its new Hancock Tower stick in Boston, or just a combination of enhanced groundwave/tropo
 
Eli Polonsky said:
HHH said:
A shame you can't hear Boston's classical music station clearly at Symphony Hall!
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You can on 89.7 HD2.
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You'd be much better off catching their live internet stream. How many people actually have an HD radio? Why do stations even bother with it?
 
Here's a question for the engineering types:

With regard to the whole 103.7 translator situation......Does Entercom have any grounds to object to this on the basis of possible interference to its Westerly RI property on 103.7?
 
Not really, and they didn't. It doesn't look like they're too terribly concerned.

If it does become an issue, they can easily get the translator shut down with some listener complaints.
 
Do translators normally stick to their authorized power, or do the owners turn up the juice figuring the FCC won't catch them? Based on those near me, they seem to have exceptionally large service areas for such low power outputs.
 
Does Entercom have any grounds to object to this on the basis of possible interference to its Westerly RI property on 103.7?
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It's LICENSED to Westerly but WVEI-FM 103.7 is located on top of one of the tallest hills in RI (which ain't saying much) and the 60dBu covers pretty much the entire state; only tiny slivers in the NW and NE corners are not within the protected contour.

However, with translators the protected contour is irrelevant. Any complaints from existing listeners to 103.7 in RI can derail the translator in Boston. They don't even need to be "with standing" (living within the 60dBu contour). Entercom has EVERY reason to challenge this translator, since supposedly 103.7 is a major part of their "south of Boston" listening community. And their main signal, 93.7, is north of Boston and thus has trouble south of the city. Besides, why should they accept any competition in any form?

I would opine that it's a safe bet that Entercom will find some listeners to write in complaints to the FCC within a week of the 103.7 translator firing up. And the translator will have no choice but to shut down and/or change frequency (which it can't really do, AFAIK, b/c there's nowhere to go).
 
Unless Entercom buys it, and makes it a simulcast of WRKO... Then they wouldn't care about interference to VEI-FM. 93.7 does just fine south of Boston, especially in areas that the 103.7 translator would cover.
 
aaronread said:
Does Entercom have any grounds to object to this on the basis of possible interference to its Westerly RI property on 103.7?
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It's LICENSED to Westerly but WVEI-FM 103.7 is located on top of one of the tallest hills in RI (which ain't saying much) and the 60dBu covers pretty much the entire state; only tiny slivers in the NW and NE corners are not within the protected contour.

However, with translators the protected contour is irrelevant. Any complaints from existing listeners to 103.7 in RI can derail the translator in Boston. They don't even need to be "with standing" (living within the 60dBu contour). Entercom has EVERY reason to challenge this translator, since supposedly 103.7 is a major part of their "south of Boston" listening community. And their main signal, 93.7, is north of Boston and thus has trouble south of the city. Besides, why should they accept any competition in any form?

I would opine that it's a safe bet that Entercom will find some listeners to write in complaints to the FCC within a week of the 103.7 translator firing up. And the translator will have no choice but to shut down and/or change frequency (which it can't really do, AFAIK, b/c there's nowhere to go).
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Is it kosher for broadcasting corporations to actively solicit complaints to the FCC about a potential competitor? I know Clear Channel had spots on 97.9 here in Connecticut urging listeners with spotty reception to the west of the city to complain to the FCC about a pesky translator, and apparently it worked. So does the FCC assume that all the complaints it gets are legitimate? I mean, for all we know, Clear Channel (or Entercom) employees living in the affected areas could ask their neighbors to help an old buddy out and write to the FCC. And if only one or two complaints can doom a translator, and the FCC naively accepts all complaints are legit, isn't it possible that this could be going on right now?
 
Eh, it doesn't happen too much. These complaints are actively investigated by the translator licensee. Fakes are usually found out. If Entercom were REALLY concerned, wouldn't they have filed an opposition to the translator? They didn't, and now it's got a CP. I seriously doubt a flea-powered pea shooter in the middle of an incredibly hostile RF environment is going to cause much trouble (or be audible on the outskirts of the city, for that matter.)
 
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