[BC] High School Football Games --- STA

[Mike McCarthy]

At one of my client stations, we had the same thing.  Co-channel station 
every Friday night stayed on at day power/pattern and their skywave blasted 
us right out of the water over most of our home area.  Our sports people 
were fuming.

It took a cease and desist letter from the station's lawyer to the other 
station's owner with the threat of suing them in federal court over lost 
revenues for them to power down reliably. The threat of big time lawyers 
and ongoing ligation in an area they don't have influence and which they 
have no way of prevailing as the only way to get their attention. It seems 
the FCC had visited them once before and they simply forgot about the 
previous citation for the same violation.

MM

At 09:36 AM 6/14/2006 -0500, Golchert, Michael A. wrote
>         I wonder how many stations stay on at a higher power for HS
>Football/Basketball claiming "Sports Temporary Authority"?  I've run
>across a couple of these "claims" while doing APIB inspections several
>years ago.  One station even boasted that they had written approval from
>the FCC.  When asked for the FCC letter, they suddenly forgot where they
>filed it...yea right.
>
>
>Michael A. Golchert
>AM Field Engineer
>Clear Channel