[BC] Daylight Savings Time changes?

[Neal Newman]

Interesting.
In the winter when I Powerdown to 1kw say at 4:15pm
 Radio Disney in Mich Slams me   for an hour  sometimes longer before 
they dissapear. It drives managment here nuts.
 Hence My cell phone is Ringing off the hook  I run DST

Scott Fybush wrote:

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