[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Scott Fybush]

>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.

This doesn't make sense (and being married to a Hoosier, I know a lot about 
time zones that don't make sense!) --

If I have an AM station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where DST is not observed 
(though I know this changes next year), and you have an AM station in Van 
Wert, Indiana, 30 miles away, where DST is observed, we both go to day 
power/pattern at the SAME TIME, since that schedule goes by standard time 
year-round. Yes, my clock says 6:30 and yours says 7:30 when we flip the 
switch, but it's not like I get to go to day power at 6:30 your time while 
you have to wait an extra hour.

PSRA may be another matter - I know it starts at 6 AM local time, but is 
that local STANDARD time or local DST? If it's the latter, then the 
stations on the DST side of the border get the advantage.

In practice, this turns out not to be much of an issue. Fort Wayne is the 
largest border market on the Indiana/Ohio line, and Indiana gets DST next 
year anyway. And there's very little of any economic consequence on the 
AZ/NM border to be an issue.

s