Sounds like Salem is promising to build out Bainbridge for Intelli. Have fun with this! https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101784329&formid=314&fac_num=20355 Light reading for your afternoon.
RFI mitigation comes like a tsunami when you turn on a brand new site and as you know, there is no way of predicting which homes or businesses will be affected.
Anymore with the value of AM stations being so deflated, I don't think it's worth the trouble trying to fight NIMBY's. Especially rich NIMBY's.
As Archie mentioned in their reply, just look at the years of NIMBY battles Andy went through moving and upgrading KRKO. That was dealing with residents less well-off than Bainbridge Island residents, and this all happened many years ago.
Salem goofed with trying to build 1300 near the Port of Tacoma.
Well, driving through Seattle earlier today, I punched in whatever 1300 kHz is now, it's a jockless, female voice song ID tagged, CCM jukebox. I did hear a five minute blizzard of spots, including Macy's. And something called Patriot Mobile.
Yep. The ghostly signal of 1300 is now a placeholder if I ever heard one. No wacky morning zoo announced. No Saturday Night Hot Mixes, No slick website, must-have app, stickers, t-shirts, coffee mugs or keychains. Compared to KRKO, they both sound eerily similar in their canned song-tagged way...Like KRKO's born-again sister.
The signal doesn't matter. The format doesn't matter. Getting back on the air before the STA expired mattered, and they did that. That's about as much thought as this topic deserves right now, because there really isn't any more to it.