[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Ernie Belanger]

A thought.

The Federal Government has the authority to deal with Inter State Commerce 
matters.

Radio signals because of atmospheric conditions cross State lines and are 
thus an Inter State matter VS an Intra State matter.

In light of this can not the Federal Government mandate all states abide by 
the Daylight Savings time laws?

The AM stations in the two states which don't are at a significant advantage 
over the stations in the surrounding states which do.

They can be at high power for their morning shows and can  garnering 
additional revenue  which can include mponey from sponsors in the border 
states where stations must stay a low power.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?


> On 20 Jul 2005 at 22:52, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
>
>> I'm curious about this... does anyone know how this may end up affecting 
>> us
>> Daytimers?
>>
>> http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-daylight20.html
>>
>> We would lose that whole hour of time in the morning, 6:45-7:45am! Unless 
>> the
>> FCC makes a change in the Rules to accomodate this, we won't be 
>> signing-on
>> until 7:45am in November! OUCH!
>>
>> We would also lose our 6-7am slot in March. Again, OUCH!
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Politics and physics don't mix well, and physics always wins.  Sunrise
> will come at the same time it always has, only your clock will be
> different. Therefore, your authorization for daytime will be the same
> as now and you will lose an hour of airtime in the morning during those
> two months.
>
> This is being done to synchronize with the time schedule Europe has
> used for decades. Over there, they call it summer time. By doing this
> the time differential between, for example, London and Chicago or
> Paris and LA will remain constant year around rather than the wild
> gyrations we see now. The idea is facilitating commerce.
>
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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