[BC] AM on translator becomes new FM station...

[Mike McCarthy]

On 12/26/2011 7:45 AM, Gary Peterson wrote:
>The station that I described has an existing, licensed 950 STL to its AM transmitter.  That has
>been turned off, in favor of retransmitting the translator.  The utility power at the translator
>site is not all that reliable.  Now, if the translator goes off, the AM is also dead 

That's the type of myopia which get's a station in trouble....quickly.

Turning off a licensed reliable STL in favor of a less reliable path will quickly come back to haunt them.  The real question is whether they will learn from one of those power failures or blindly carry on never knowing their AM is still the principal signal.

MM