[BC] High School Football Games --- STA

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

Dont hold me to it, but I think the term originated with DXers who know that
Friday nites in the fall usually reveal a treasure trove of stations.  They
always are running HSFB.  Thus the term....

Paul Smith
W4KNX
Sarasota, FL

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of Bailey, Scott
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:11 AM
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Subject: RE: [BC] High School Football Games --- STA


The commission realizes that AM stations (especially small town
station...NOT SMALL MARKET...small town) have a tuff way to go. That's
the reason through the 80's and early 90's the FCC did all they could do
to give AM daytime only stations some relief with PSRA/PSSA and flea
power at night. The inspectors turn their heads on Friday night
football, as long as there are no interference problems, which means no
major complaints. If a complaint is filed, like Mike mentions, then the
AM station causing the interference must turn the power down or turn it
off. It's as simple as that!

There is no such thing, and never has been a grant from the commission
called "Sports Temporary Authority". That sounds like some sports
announcer's logic of making crap like that up and showing me they
haven't a clue what Part 73 of the AM rules are! No Communications
Attorney would as for anything like that.  Some people really burn me up
with their stupidity of the law.

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] High School Football Games --- STA

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


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