Digital AM Petition Reflects Interference Reality for AM, Oxenford Says
The FCC should let any AM station go all digital, Bryan Broadcasting petitioned for rulemaking, posted Tuesday in docket 13-249. The petition recognizes the reality of AM’s interference problem, blogged Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford, who represents Bryan. “For…
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those AM stations that did not get a translator, or for those whose AM signal reaches farther than a translator can, other solutions are needed,” Oxenford said Wednesday. The FCC previously has considered allowing a digital shift for AM but never pulled the trigger on allowing it, Oxenford said. It’s likely to be a while before the Bryan petition would lead to a rule change, Oxenford said, though additional stations could ask for experimental authority to shift.