October 31, 2008
Moving a piece on the AM chessboard, WAGE near the nation's capital can
shift its frequency and boost its power, adding 5 million people to its 0.5
mV/m contour.
The station, owned by Potomac Radio, is based in Leesburg, Va., and has won
permission to go from 1200 kHz at 5 kW day/1 kW night, to 1190 kHz at 50 kW
day/3 kW night. It will use a three-tower directional antenna at a new site
for daytime operation, and a four-tower DA at its current site at night.
To make that possible, Potomac had reached a deal with Nations Radio, the
licensee of WBIS(AM) in nearby Annapolis, Md., under which Nations
surrenders that license. The Federal Communications Commission allows such
"interference reduction agreements" to encourage overall improvements in the
AM service.
Potomac and Nations told the FCC that the change will ease interference to
WFYL(AM) in King of Prussia, Pa. The FCC also agreed with their contention
that Annapolis listeners would not be unduly harmed by losing WBIS because
the area has many local stations including four licensed to Annapolis.
Another company with local radio interests, Birach Broadcasting Corp., had
objected to the change. It accused Potomac and its principals, James
Weitzman and Edwin Tornberg, of trying to thwart competition and secretly
being behind a group of tower opponents in another case involving an AM
array in Damascus, Md. Potomac says it has no control over that group and
the FCC denied the objection.
http://www.radioworld.com/pages/s.0100/t.16103.html
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