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    COMMUNICATIONS HORIZONS

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes
    BY ROB DE SANTOS, K8RKD

    Several subjects of recent columns have seen some developments and it’s time to see what’s new in these areas.

    Frankly, the FCC Doesn’t Give a D***

    For “Franken-FMs” (“Communications Horizons,” April 2020 , p. 5) the road is almost at an end. The FCC recently rejected the most recent appeals by the stations still occupying the spectrum at 87.75 MHz (and marketed as on 87.7 MHz). These are nominally analog TV stations but which in the digital TV era have their audience largely in the adjacent FM spectrum. While the “big-boy” TV stations have turned

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