On 29 Mar 2004 16:16:22 GMT, "R J Carpenter"
wrote:

Steve, the WWVA proposal is to serve Cleveland, but licensed to Stow. It
would be 16 miles SW of the Terminal Tower, but 26 miles WNW of Stow. Stow
obviously needs a "first local service", while Wheeling has a number of AM
and FM stations (irony OFF).

And if you're trying to handicap the "first local service" thing, Stow
would have great odds. It's grown like the proverbial weeds over the
past 20 years. The population figure cited here (27,000) is probably
more like 40,000 by now. Stow's eastern edge, near Kent, is dotted
with a whole bunch of new housing developments, and a new giant
Stow-Munroe Falls High School in that same area of town.

And among other "usual suspects" for the first local service petition,
Stow has its own weekly newspaper, and they could probably make an
argument that it has enough employment separate from Akron or
Cleveland.

I'm just not sure why a Cleveland area community - within the proper
signal range of the site in Lorain County near Strongsville, which
would still provide a market signal over Cleveland - wouldn't work
here...and why they had to reach clear to Stow to find a COL for the
new 1170 app.

Mike