REC Networks / REC ネットワーク Michelle (“Michi”) Bradley J1 Radio/J1 ラジオ 太田道子 11541 Riverton Wharf Rd Founder of REC/Director of J1 Radio Mardela Springs, MD 21837 REC 代表取締役 +1 202 621-2355 J1 ラジオ ディレクター http://www.recnet.com
[email protected] http://www.J1FM.tokyo CHANNEL LOADING SIMULATIONS FOR “WIDE-FM” (76.1~87.9 MHz) AS A LONG- TERM SOLUTION FOR MIGRATING LOCAL AM BROADCAST STATIONS WHILE MAINTAINING A CRITICAL NATIONAL AM INFRASTRUCTURE. March 9, 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Classes of Service 2 Allocation Reference Points 2 Protection of TV Broadcast Stations 2 Low Power TV Stations 2 Foreign TV Stations 2 Protection of FM Facilities 3 Protection Between Wide-FM Facilities 3 Assignment of Channels in the Border Areas 3 Assignment of FM Broadcast Band Channels (92.1~107.9 MHz) 3 Reserved Band 3 Priority of Assignment 4 Listing of AM stations by call letters and their study allocations 5 Table of Allotments – Scenario 1 (Protecting Full-Service Ch. 5 & 6) 83 Metro Dialscapes – Scenario 1 122 Table of Allotments – Scenario 2 (No TV Channel 5 & 6 protections) 159 Metro Dialscapes – Scenario 2 206 TV stations considered in this study 256 Critical Nighttime Infrastructure 258 1 2 INTRODUCTION This study was created as a part of REC Networks’ comments in MB Docket 19-311 which examines a “long term” solution for the survival of local AM radio licensees that are facing continued AM band degradation as a result of evolving technologies and evolving consumer attitudes in respect to AM radio. In this document, we run two different allocation studies, one that takes existing full-service TV channel 5 & 6 stations into consideration and one that does not.