[BC] Local studio rules

[Scott Fybush]

Mark Humphrey wrote:

> So, if the public doesn't know about the "legal" main studio (usually the
> case when the "defacto" main studio is somewhere else) what useful purpose
> does it serve??  (Especially when there's no requirement to originate any
> programming from that location.)

Ah...but remember, there's also the requirement that a local or 
toll-free number be listed in the local phone directory.

Knowing the situation that Mark's thinking of (an FM station serving a 
market about 40 miles distant and operated from a cluster studio in that 
market, but establishing a "legal" main studio at an AM station near its 
city of license, with nothing but a public file and a Gentner that can 
dial into the transmitter site to put audio on the air in an emergency), 
I checked the phone book for that area. Sure enough, the station's 
listed in the phone book for the city of license, so anyone looking for 
the public file would, in that case, be able to find it.

What *useful* purpose does it serve? Keeps the lawyers employed, I 
guess, and I'm sure the owner of the AM station doesn't mind the extra 
income...

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