Path: utzoo!utgpu!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 07:41:48 EST Reply-To: Steve Lamont <@BBN.COM,@duck:spl@mcnc.org.uucp> Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Steve Lamont <@BBN.COM,@duck:spl@mcnc.org.uucp> Subject: Re: VOTE on rec.radio.noncomm X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb28.135953est.58120@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <10498@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes: >> I believe that rec.radio.noncomm would deal with the _programming_ of >> noncommercial _broadcast_ stations (88-92 mHz FM. primarily). > > Uh, noncommercial stations are not restricted to 88-92MHz. >You'll find plenty of them between 92-108Mhz and the AM Standard >Broadcast band (aka Medium Wave). True. However the original poster didn't say that noncommercials were *restricted* to 88-92 MHz. Once upon a time, that part of the band was reserved for noncommercial stations -- educational broadcasters, primarily. In other words, you could be noncommercial anywhere on the band but you were specifically restricted by the terms of the license to be noncommercial if you were in the 88-92 MHz part of the band. These were generally low power operations and (I think) may have had some fairly low ceiling on their ERP. In these days of deregulation I don't know whether this is true any longer. Does anyone know that the current FCC Rules and Regulations say? Is the FCC now granting commerical broadcasters licenses in the old "Educational" part of the FM band? spl (the p stands for public broadcasting is in my blood...) -- Steve Lamont, sciViGuy (919) 248-1120 EMail: spl@ncsc.org NCSC, Box 12732, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 "I love you for your beauty; love me although I am ugly." Cervantes, _Don_Quixote_