Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Among a HUGE batch of major-change and new-station applications recently
released by the FCC is the application of WWVA-1170 (Wheeling, WV) to
move to Stow, Ohio.

Grant of said application would require that something happen to
WCUE-1150 in Cuyahoga Falls. Power reductions and/or pattern changes
wouldn't cut it, as Stow and Cuyahoga Falls *border on each other* - you
couldn't obtain a pattern tight enough to provide city-grade throughout
Stow without leaking enough into Cuyahoga Falls to interfere. And
vice-versa.

I see no applications from WCUE in the database. In any case, I thought
the FCC summarily dismissed contingent applications? (applications
whose grant is contingent on the grant of some other application) I.e.,
WWVA's application would *have* to be dismissed unless WCUE is first
granted a frequency change or move to a new city-of-license.

Perhaps it's not Stow, but Steubenville. Wheeling is across the river from
Steubenville, pretty much, but is nowhere near Stow, and I not only can't
see the FCC allowing 1170 and 1150 to be lit up in the same market, I can't
see the FCC allowing Clear Channel to remove an operational station from
one market to put it into another.

On the other hand, I'm sure the engineering study for WWVA wasn't cheap
- and Clear Channel isn't known for wasting money filing impossible
technical changes. Obviously they've found *some* way they expect to
get this change through.

I want to know what the point is. What are they going to put there? Someone
else owns the news-talker in Akron, they own ESPN 1350; Akron's a small market.
How many AMs do they expect the area to be able to support? There are a few
minor ones like WCUE in addition to 1350 and 1590 already.

It's my personal opinion that someone at Clear Channel needs to remove the
crack pipe from their anal cavity.

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