The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council backed a broadcaster request...
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council backed a broadcaster request for the FCC to let an AM station use an FM translator it’s buying farther from the AM’s main transmitter to rebroadcast the buyer’s programming within a market (CD Nov…
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20 p6). Hancock Communications’s request for a waiver to use an FM translator in Central City, Ky., for WTCJ(AM) Tell City, Ind., comes as WTCJ “and many other AM stations” fell “victim” to a rule “that restricts FM translator moves based on a minimal miles radius calculation,” MMTC said in a filing Tuesday. “AM revitalization can benefit the communities the stations serve.” As WTCJ contends, “there are enough FM translators, both licensed and applied-for, that removing these regulatory barriers would be a win for AM revitalization” and listeners, the council said.