CA was in NJ SHOT_ON_SIGHT writes:

Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:

I just want to know if Radio Unica plans on returning the AM 1530
licence to the FCC any time soon....I think it's been longer than the
requisite five years for doing the "choose one" thing, right?

Or has the FCC forgotten about that?

Somebody must have come up with a good all-purpose exemption by now, no?

No - but it doesn't apply to 1530/1660 Elizabeth, which was created under
a separate set of rules from most of the X-banders out there. The "Elizabeth
rule" automatically granted an X-band allocation to any AM daytimer that
was the sole local service for a community of more than 100,000 people.
It was originally meant to apply to WJDM and only WJDM (and was a tribute
to John Quinn's pull with his representatives in Washington), but was
eventually applied to 1190/1640 Vallejo CA as well.

Stations created under the "Elizabeth rule" don't have a five-year sunset.

Oh, and Sven - 1660 was never "WAHS." It used the WJDM calls in its Radio
Aahs days before becoming WBAH and then WWRU.

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