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ENFORCEMENT: COLLEGE STATION GIVES UP LICENSE FOR NET ONLY
OPERATION
Yet another college radio station has gone QRT. Amateur
Radio Newsline's Stephen Kinford, N8WB, reports:
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Paul Smiths College in Adirondack Park, New York, has
relinquished its Class D FM broadcast license for its campus
radio station WPSA FM. The school had been facing problems
keeping it on the air that came from a series of FCC
Monetary Forfeiture Orders over the late renewal of the
station license in 2006 as well as lack of interest from the
student body in the stations operation.
WPSA reportedly operated at around 10 watts with a service
radius of two miles that covered little more than the
campus. Its problems began when its license was cancelled
by the FCC and the call sign deleted. Two years later, the
college filed a Petition for Reconsideration and had it
reinstated. Following the late renewal in 2006, the FCC
issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the
amount of $7,000 fine for unauthorized operation of a radio
station after the license had expired.
Adding to the situation was a seeming loss of interest by
its potential audience. According to the schools
coordinator for student activities, students were part of
the decision to give up the broadcast license. She said
that no one wanted to participate in it and that it had very
few listeners.
The spokesperson added that it appears the trend these days
is that the students are on-line rather than listening on
the airways.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB,
reporting.
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WPSA will live on but without a transmitter or antenna.
Current plans are to bring it back to life, but as a
strictly online entity. (RW)
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