[BC] 1620Khz Blackfoot, ID License Cancelled

[DANA PUOPOLO]

How about UMass Dartmouth (WUSM) who originally applied to change frequency
and improve facilities. Their application was granted and now somehow they've
managed to con the FCC to allow them to sell their OLD frequency to a god
squad outfit for $700K!!!

How is/was this allowed? Is the FCC truly THAT for sale??

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:59:30 PM PST
From: "Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] 1620Khz Blackfoot, ID License Cancelled


> As far as I know, there is no exception to the five year "sunset"
provision
> for the daytimers in large communities who were given top priority for
expanded
> band facilities by Congress.  They must cease operating on one of the
> frequencies five years after the grant date of the initial expanded
band license.
> This won't occur for WJDM/WWRU, however, until April 9, 2007, five
years aftetr
> the grant of the initial liciense for WWRU.
>


> The "loophone" Barry referred to was a bit of a headache for the FCC,
but it
> is my understanding that one of the two stations must still cease
operation by
> the fifth anniversary of the grant of a license for the expanded band
> station.  I believe it was this situation and the inability of the FCC
to block the
> separation of the ownership of the expanded band station from its
paired main
> band station that inspired them to issue a single license document
(and
> conformed call signs) for an analog TV station and its paired DTV
station in an
> effort to prevent problems in shutting down analog facilities which
may have been
> separated from their paired DTV facility at the end of the DTV
transition.
>
> Roy Stype


It is my understanding that there is an application from a Long
Island 1440 to relocate here and assume use of the 1530 allocation.
I am not taking the time to try and find this, right now (always a
risk, I suppose)  however it seems that if _any_ operator on 1530
has to shut down (to keep 1660 on the air) then the frequency
itself should be foreclosed to anyone, and not just the current
operator, or else the whole rationale for the x-band is suspect.

What am I missing here? Or did I miss something more recent?

- Bob



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