Finding Room On The Infinite (FM) Dial

Written Jun. 24, 2009 by Sean Ross in with 1 Comment

Part of any dialogue about the ongoing viability of the AM dial must hinge on how many broadcasters could truly be relocated on FM. In recent years, broadcasters have become increasingly enterprising about using FM translators to accommodate simulcasts of both AM stations and now the programming from their FM channels. And in the headlines in recent days: even the Detroit/Windsor market has room for another FM, it now seems.

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1  buzz on June 25, 2009 7:37 AM

Fine, let them be relocated if they can compete fair and square in an auction for FM frequencies. But AM incumbents have no automatic entitlement to another band.

And no phooey about "serving their communities." Toys for Tots and walkathons do not entitle anyone to a broadcast license.

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