[WXBH-Discuss] A spreadsheet of the competition

[John Hicks]

Here's a little more analysis of our status in the competition to get a
full power license. I've put some basic data on the eight other
applicants into a spreadsheet:

http://brickhouse.cc/pages/MXesTake1.html - web page table
http://brickhouse.cc/pages/MXesTake1.ods - open Office Calc format
http://brickhouse.cc/pages/MXesTake1.xls - M$ Exsell format

Notice the ones that are not established local organizations (at least
two years old and within 25 miles of their station). And notice how many
other stations they already have and how many applications they have filed.

It's too soon to say how exactly how we stand, but I don't see a truly
community-based organization other than ourselves among them! Let's
start rallying support behind this project!!

-- John

John Hicks wrote:
> The race to get a full power non-commercial radio station for Metro 
> Louisville and Southern Indiana is heating up. It looks like there are 
> several other applications whose coverage area would overlap ours. 
> (These are refered to as MX, or mutually exclusive, applications.)
> 
> Yesterday and today the FCC and recnet.com have made the full power 
> applications and much related data available online. We have to hustle 
> to study it and ascertain how we stand with regard to our competition 
> and whether we should proceed with our application. We must make a 
> command decision by Monday afternoon in time to place a $500 legal 
> notice in the Courier Journal. (And, along the way, we must raise that 
> $500 and another $1500 in short order for three more legal ads in the 
> days to come.)
> 
> Here are the links to the relevant data:
> 
> Our application is for Marysville, Indiana. (That's the closest we could 
> get to Louisville and is about 24 miles north of here.)
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/nce07.php?party=BRYCC%20HOUSE%20INC.
> 
> A list of nearby applicants for the same or adjacent frequencies. The 
> ones we need to be most concerned about are the eight in a different color:
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/nce07overlap.php?appid=1213876
> 
> The eight other applications in our (apparent) MX (mutually exclusive) 
> group:
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=171572
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=171723
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=171723
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=171941
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=172661
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=173629
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=176834
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=176986
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=174031
> 
> A master list of all the Indiana applications with links to the actual 
> applications and cross links show all the applications filed by a given 
> applicant:
> http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/nce07.php?state=IN
> 
> Your mission, should you decide to accept it:
> 
> Investigate each applicant. Is it:
> - a genuine local grassroots media organization
> - an out of town organization with a (possibly religious) ideology 
> and/or agenda.
> - a local front for the latter
> 
> Do any of the applicants currently operate another full-power station? 
> (Applicants with the fewest or no other stations have an advantage over 
> others. Low power doesn't count, thank goodness.)
> 
> Are any of the applicants located more than 25 miles from the community 
> of license? (Local applicants [under 25 miles] trump out-of-town ones.)
> 
> Dig into their actual applications (accessible from that last link 
> above) to see what the population of their coverage area is projected to 
> be. (Higher population counts trump lower ones.)
> 
> (Yes, I will be trying to do this myself, but I'm on my way to the 
> studio right now to do several other things, so since time is of the 
> essence, I figure it's best for some of you to get to work on it right 
> away.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Hicks
> 
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