[BC] 1620Khz Blackfoot, ID License Cancelled

[Scott Fybush]

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> was the loophole where they could sell the license prior to five years 
> plugged?  Wasn't that what happened in New Jersey?

If you're referring to WJDM 1530/1660, that was a different sort of a 
loophole. That X-bander (along with what's now KFOX 1650 in LA and KDIA 
1640 in Vallejo CA) was created under a separate Congressional 
authorization that provided an automatic preference for an X-band slot, 
with no five-year sunset date, to any daytimer that was the only local 
broadcast service in a community of 100,000 or more people. (It was, 
unsurprisingly, crafted by and passed specifically for John Quinn, whose 
WJDM in Elizabeth NJ happened to be a daytimer that was the only local 
broadcast service in a community of just over 100,000 people.)

Nothing in that provision explicitly barred the X-banders so created 
from being sold, or from being moved to other unserved communities, so 
1660 ended up in "Jersey City" (diplexed with NYC's WKDM 1380 in 
Carlstadt NJ) and 1650 ended up moving from Costa Mesa to Torrance 
(diplexed, IIRC, with KWKW 1330 LA.)

More recently, under the "normal" X-band rules that contain the sunset 
provision, WHWH 1350 in Princeton NJ spawned WTTM 1680, the X-bander 
Neal Newman just moved down to the Philly market ("Lindenwold NJ"). Both 
WHWH and WTTM have filed for license renewals. It'll be interesting to 
see what the FCC does with this one - WHWH can't claim that it's the 
only broadcast service remaining in Princeton, since WPRB(FM) is 
licensed there as well.

s