[BC] Markets that had no daytimers

[Dan Strassberg]

Dave Hultsman commented that Jackson MS was unusual in having no daytimers
licensed to it. All the daytimers in the market were licensed to suburbs.

In market #1, only two daytimers WNYC and WLIB, were licensed to New
York City (and officially, both were limited-time stations and not
true daytimers, as they were licensed to stay on the air with their
regular daytime facilities until sunset at the Class I station to
the west). In effect, though, only one station signed off at
anybody's sunset--WLIB, which signed off at Fort Wayne sunset to
protect WOWO. The FCC version of Fort Wayne sunset is 45 minutes
later than New York sunset in every month. WNYC (because of its
unique position as New York's municipally owned station) operated
under STA for years and years and years, staying on the air until
9:00 PM CST at WCCO (10:00 PM EST in the winter and 11:00 PM EDT in
the summer). WNYC actually built a two-tower DA to protect WCCO
during the hours between Minneapolis sunset and WNYC's extended
sign-off time. There is really more to the WNYC story than that. The
long version appears in the book "The Airwaves of New York." WNYC
once shared time with WMCA and feuded with it over the time-share
agreement. (New York Mayor Jimmy Walker once refused to allow  WNYC
to sign off to make way for WMCA and both WNYC and WMCA were on the
air simultaneously.) Rather ironically though, since the late 80s,
WNYC has been  diplexed with WMCA. What goes around comes around--or
something like that.


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