"Brenda Ann" wrotf:


"BoobleStubble" wrote in message
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http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/status/silent.html

LMFAO!

Most of those FM's are locals that went dark, and the translators they took
with them. Some are stations that moved frequency and the original frequency
went dark at the same time the new one went online. The only one I know for
sure why it went dark was 104.5 in The Dalles, OR. It went out of business
recently after about 30 years on the air. It originally started as a small
local run by a paraplegic and gradually grew into a 100KW full service
station that could be heard pretty well on the east end of Portland (about
70 miles away).

The remainder were LPFM's, mostly run by churches, that probably either went
dark because of IBOC sideband interference or just figured it wasn't worth
their trouble to keep the station up and running (it's a lot more difficult
to maintain a radio station than all those churches thought when they
snarfed up all those LPFM frequencies!)

You'd think they might have remembered learning that same lesson about AMs
in the '20s.

Norm