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In the United States, radio stations are assigned callsigns that either start with K (for those located west of the Mississippi River), or W (for those located east of the Mississippi River). AM radio stations by call sign (starting with KA–KF)
FM protected or primary service contour Distance to protected or primary service contour Distance to 70 dBu city-grade or principal community coverage contour Class A 6 kW 100 m (328 ft) 60 dBu (1.0mV/m) 28.3 km (17.6 mi) 16.2 km (10.1 mi) Class B1 25 kW 100 m (328 ft) 57 dBu (0.7mV/m) 44.7 km (27.8 mi) 23.2 km (14.4 mi) Class B 50 kW
WUFO remains a daytime-only station to the present day, albeit with a 24/7 FM translator introduced in mid-2017. As of 2013, daytimers exist only in the United States and Mexico. The last Canadian daytime station, CKOT, signed off on February 17 of that year after converting to the FM band. There were 61 daytimers in Mexico in 2015. [2]
The following is a list of radio stations owned by Audacy, Inc. As of June 2023, Audacy (then known as Entercom) operates 227 radio stations in 45 media markets across the United States . On February 2, 2017, Entercom announced that it had agreed to acquire CBS Radio .
A coverage map may be produced to indicate the area in which a certain signal strength is delivered. [1] Even if it is 100% accurate (which it never is), a major factor on whether a signal is receivable depends very much on whether the receiving apparatus is sensitive enough to use a signal of that level.
The FCC gave FM two boosts in the early 1960s: first by setting a technical standard for stereo broadcasts, and second by adopting the FM Non-Duplication Rule in 1964, prohibiting broadcasters with an AM and FM license in cities of more than 100,000 from transmitting more than 50% of the same programming on both stations.
Technologies are available that allow for switching to a different signal carrying the same radio program when leaving the broadcast range of a station. Radio Data System allows for switching to a different FM or station with the same identifier, or even to (but not necessarily from) an AM station. Satellite radio also is designed to switch ...
The following is a list of full-power non-commercial educational radio stations in the United States broadcasting programming from National Public Radio (NPR), which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, band, city of license and state. HD Radio subchannels and low-power translators are not included.