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What Happens When A Little Station Is Forced To Give Up Its Frequency
This isn't local, but it's an interesting example of what happens when a low power station is obligated by the rules to give up its frequency because a bigger station wants to take it over. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the law is similar in Canada, where a bigger outlet can demand a small player abandon its longtime dial position once authorities determine the request is valid.
Not sure how many times it's happened here, but I believe it has. In this case, it took place in Michigan.
Radio station had same dial spot for decades until bigger station took frequency
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It's happened a number of times in Canada, involving class LP and VLP stations... there are a couple of examples in my neck of the woods.
In Arnprior, My Broadcasting Corp/myFM had a low-power rebroadcaster of its flagship Renfrew station (CHMY-FM 96.1) transmitting at 104.7 from the Arnprior water tower. It was forced off of that frequency when Gatineau's CJRC moved to that frequency from 1150 AM, so MBC moved CHMY-FM-1 to 107.7. In Ottawa, the Algonquin College campus station, CKDJ-FM had been operating on low power at 96.9 from the roof of one of the buildings on the Woodroffe Campus, but when a new station launched on the Quebec side at 97.1, CKDJ had to move elsewhere on the dial, and ended up at its present frequency, 107.9 with a class A1 signal, including protection from co-channel or adjacent-channel signals.
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RadioActive wrote:
This isn't local, but it's an interesting example of what happens when a low power station is obligated by the rules to give up its frequency because a bigger station wants to take it over. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the law is similar in Canada, where a bigger outlet can demand a small player abandon its longtime dial position once authorities determine the request is valid.
Not sure how many times it's happened here, but I believe it has. In this case, it took place in Michigan.
Radio station had same dial spot for decades until bigger station took frequency
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It was free when I posted it. Try this link.
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