"John Byrns" wrote in message
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The term "local stations" as used above has also been used recently in
several other threads. I am curious what the readers of this forum would
consider to be a "local station"?

I have no idea what they use to describe them now... but I remember that
AM's used to be basically classed as either Local (frequencies such as
1230.. 1 KW or less daytime power), Regional (frequencies such as 620... 5
KW-50KW daytime power) and Clear channel (frequencies such as 1160.. 50 KW
daytime and nighttime power). Locals were generally required to go off the
air at dusk unless they had specific nighttime authorization, which
generally required drastic power reduction and/or directional antenna system
(most with nighttime authorization would run at 250 watts, but I know of
some that run as little as 10 watts nighttime... as in why bother??)