Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/26/2016 12:34 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> Here's my response:
>
> Iâm all for the changesâ And Iâm a DXer and broadcaster!!
>
> Who cares about WGY in Boston or Pittsburgh? Who cares about KDKA in
> Cincinatti or NYC?

That's not the real issue. The issue is who cares about WGY in Albany or 
about KDKA in Pittsburgh. These 50 kW stations are the *only* AMs at 
this point that reach even a significant majority of their markets after 
dark or during critical hours. Reduce the protection they now enjoy from 
incoming interference (or worse yet, reduce their power) and now those 
stations, too, fall beneath the noise floor for listeners *within* their 
own markets. You can't magically add new RF to clean AM channels 
somewhere *outside* a market without causing new interference *within* 
that market. Every attempt to cram new signals into the MW spectrum over 
the last 70 years has been testament to that truth.

As it stands, there are already entire markets - DC, for instance, 
Houston, Miami, among others - in which there is not even one AM station 
that can be clearly heard across the entire market. Eliminating more 
protection would only make that situation worse. It's a recipe for 
killing off the last remaining big-market AMs that actually draw 
listeners and make money.

I wrote about this at great length in my original comments on the FCC 
rulemaking from which this current proposal derives:

http://www.fybush.com/nerw-extra-our-am-improvement-filing/

s
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