Mike, I think you should complain to WABC. WABC might not care that much
about us Canadians listening to them, but they probably do care about
people in central and upstate New York who listen to them, and if WTOR
is on all night, they'll be interfering with WABC's signal in New York
State as well as in Ontario.
A report to the FCC might get some action too. After all if WTOR is
leaving their carrier on all night, they're breaking the FCC's rules,
and the FCC takes a dim view of that.
Best,
Greg Shoom
Mike Brooker wrote:
For the past several months (perhaps for more than a year now) WTOR-770
has been leaving their carrier on all night after sign-off. Their open
carrier is seriously hammering WABC from my location in mid-town
Toronto. In particular, I like to listen to Imus in the morning before
WTOR signs on, and can't hear the I-Man too well under the WTOR
carrier. I would like to file a complaint, but where or to whom? The
FCC likely will not respond to complaints from outside the U.S.
Industry Canada and the CRTC have no jurisdiction over WTOR even if they
maintain an office in Toronto and virtually all of WTOR's programming is
intended for Canadians. Not much point in reporting the interference to
WABC, as skywave listeners no longer count for anything to I-A clear
channel blowtorches - they're just "radio nerds", beyond the range of
potential advertising revenue. And I doubt WTOR, or their parent
company Birach Broadcasting, would give a rat's hindquarters, if they
even know what an open carrier is.
73
Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON
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