Huge Opening Day For FM Translator Filing Window.
Inside Radio
Buyers and sellers wasted no time taking advantage of the FCC’s
first-come, first-served FM translator window for AM station owners on
Friday, filing applications for 50 translator deals. That’s more than
all the translator sales applications filed during the entire month of
December and nearly the amount filed in November and December combined.
The filing window that opened Friday allows Class C and D AM stations to
relocate FM translators up to 250 miles as part of the Commission’s AM
Revitalization Report & Order.
January has been a red hot month for translator deals with 176 sales
filed from companies big and small. A large number involve relocations
to other cities.
Among large operators, Salem Media Group and Radio One have been the
most aggressive so far. Kansas City is one of the most impacted markets
with no fewer than five translators planned for relocation to the
market. Catholic Radio Network alone plans to move three translators to
Kansas City – at 93.5, 101.1 and 97.1 Alpine Broadcasting has filed to
move a translator at 102.7 from Monroe City, MO into Kansas City to give
talk/adult standards KCXL (1140) a second FM signal. And Union
Broadcasting has filed to buy and move a Vandalia, MO-licensed
translator at 106.3 to Kansas City to give 10,000-watt daytime-only “Hot
Talk 1510” KCTE a 24-hour FM signal.
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*================================================ Duane Whittingham -
N9SSN (ARES/RACES, EmComm, Skywarn & Red Cross)
http://www.radiodude.info ================================================*
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