{"id":13351,"date":"2015-08-22T04:26:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T08:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2015-08-22T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T08:28:07","slug":"translator-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13351","title":{"rendered":"Translator Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"

FM translators have become really big business – because the rules are relaxed for non-commercial licensees, it is fairly easy for them to relocate a translator as long as it doesn’t interfere with an existing station. In a major market, a translator originally intended to emit a weak signal to play Christian music can be repurposed as a commercial signal booming out rap music. This is particularly true if a major owner like Clear Channel wants to exceed the rules about how many signals they have in a city. FM translators do not count against ownership limits, even if they are carrying an HD2\/3 signal not heard anywhere other than the translator. This is a huge hole in the rules that the FCC recently confirmed is intentional.<\/p>\n

So renting out Jesus Music translators is a big revenue stream. EMF (the operator of K-Love and Air1 Christian music networks) has 63 translators that are rebroadcasting non-religious programming – here is an example<\/p>\n

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I stopped fixing the relationships of what primary station a translator carries several years ago because of technical issues that I just resolved. Most ordinary people don’t care about translators and radio owners are glad you don’t know or care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FM translators have become really big business – because the rules are relaxed for non-commercial licensees, it is fairly easy for them to relocate a translator as long as it doesn’t interfere with an existing station. In a major market, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13357,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}