[BC] Religious radio/localism/generations?

[Tom Bosscher]

Paul Smith W4KNX wrote:

>Ask how many commercial Rimshots pay any attention to their city of license
>except to bury it in the legal ID.
>
>	What about the requirement in the rules for mailing out a copy of the "Public and Broadcasting", that is required to any station whose studio and PIF is not in the city of license? I'm surprised that the "Free Radio" radicals haven't caught on to this one:
>  
>
    From 73.3526 :

(2) The applicant, permittee, or licensee who maintains its main studio 
and public file outside its community of license shall:

(i) Make available to persons within its geographic service area, by 
mail upon telephone request, photocopies of documents in the file
(see ?  73.3526(c)(1)), excluding the political file (see ?  
73.3526(e)(6)), and the station shall pay postage;

 (ii) Mail the most recent version of "The Public and Broadcasting" to 
any member of the public that requests a copy;  and

 (iii) Be prepared to assist members of the public in identifying the 
documents they may ask to be sent to them by mail, for example,
by describing to the caller, if asked, the period covered by a 
particular report and the number of pages included in the report.

 Note to Paragraph (c)(2):  For purposes of this section, geographic 
service area includes the area within the Grade B contour for TV,
1 mV/m contour for all FM station classes except .7 mV/m for Class B1 
stations and .5 mV/m for Class B stations, and .5 mV/m contour for AM 
stations.

    Notice that they have to mail it out to ANY member of the public who 
is in the defined stations contours. That's a lot of mailings...

    tom bosscher