In article , FAZAMY wrote:
This past weekend I heard a station broadcasting on 87.9 fm in the NYC metro
area. It played reggae music Saturday a.m. I tuned in Sunday and it was on
the air. Come Monday and Tuesday - no signal.

Anybody know anything about this station?
Exactly, what kinds of stations - commercial, non-commecial, lpfm - are allowed
to broadcast on 87.9?

87.9 FM is called "channel 200." It is sort of in the FM band but it's a
special allocation. A station cannot be licensed for 89.7, but an existing
station can be moved to 89.7 in order to avoid interference if there is no
TV Channel 6 nearby.

Strictly speaking, this is in the guard band of TV channel 6, but it's also
in the FM band.

Almost certainly the station you heard was a pirate and not legally licensed
for that frequency.
--scott


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