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Time For A Rule Change
- Thread starter Flying Dutchman
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Your proposal is not just to go silent, but to shut the AM down and sell the tower land. No upside for the FCC there.
No regulatory fees will be paid at all if the AM's go away.
How do they keep paying fees if they shut down their AM?
Why not make them pay the same as before to keep the FM?
The FCC is not strictly in the fee collection business. They need AMs to stay on the air.
But the translators have moved all the listeners and money to FM.
The FCC is a regulatory agency. They're not going to authorize the shut-down of a federal resource by themselves.
It's also tough to explain this to taxpayers that they'd be doing this while at the same time forcing car makers to keep AM.
Not much of a public resource if there's no money, no listeners, and nobody left to do it.
My car has AM. It's been a long time since I went there.
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Is there anything I've said that's not true? The NAB is spending member money convincing congress how great AM is.
And at the same time, you want an agency that operates under congressional oversight to shut AM down.
AM was great when I was young. That was a long time ago.
There are a lot of people who feel the same way about FM. That's not going to help your case.
Another way might be to allow the FM translators to stay on as long as the station holds a valid AM license.
The FCC allowed an AM here in Indiana to use a long wire and keep getting STA's for two decades.
The FCC allowed an AM here in Indiana to use a long wire and keep getting STA's for two decades.
FM will outlive AM by ten years. It's just a band aid.
Keep in mind it's different for the big corporations. They have HD2 and HD3. They put the AM on HD2. The HD2 drives the translator. They can now dismantle the AM and sell the tower site while originating programing on the HD2.
The small town AM's can't afford to do that.
The small town AM's can't afford to do that.
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from the looks of the pictures I wonder if the AM was working before the tower was stolen. That might be why the FCC not willing to give a waiver / STA. There really should have been am "alarm or the annoying robot phone call from what ever system they were using to control the transmitter" when the AM went off so they could turn off the FM to stay legal. I am sure it took more than an hour to take down the tower and load it and the transmitter and associated equipment into a trailer or U-Haul. Someone should have driven out the site to "fix" or reset the transmitter. I think there is more going on than what we are being told.
In another thread, there's a post from a local reporter that said the AM has been off the air for a while. The tower fell down a couple years ago, and the tower and transmitter shack have been prey to vandals. The photos document that report.
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The understatement of the week.
My daughter worked at a thrift shop a few years ago. She said you wouldn't believe how many radios they took in every week.