City of license Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The suburban station=== In [[FM radio]] broadcasting, small local stations were sometimes built to serve [[suburb]]an or outlying areas in an era where [[AM radio]] stations held the largest audiences and much of the FM spectrum lay vacant. In the era of [[vacuum tube]]s, the five-tube AM radio with no FM tuning capability and limited audio quality was common; later advances in receiver design were to make good-quality FM commonplace (even though most AM/FM stereo receivers still have severely limited AM frequency response and no [[AM stereo]] decoders). Eventually FM spectrum became a very scarce commodity in many markets as AM stations moved to the FM dial, relegating AM largely to [[talk radio]]. As cities expanded, former small-town FM stations found themselves not only in what were now becoming rapidly expanding suburbs but also on what was becoming some of the most valuable spectrum in broadcast radio. The once-tiny FM stations would often then be sold, increased (where possible) to much-higher power and used to serve a huge mainstream audience in the larger metropolitan area. {|class="wikitable" |- !Broadcaster !City !Community of license !Comments |- ||[[CFNY-FM]] 102.1 ||[[Toronto]] ||[[Brampton|Brampton, Ontario]] ||Originally a secondary signal for a tiny local station, [[CIAO (AM)|CHIC]] AM Brampton, the station originally operated with a mere 857 watts, first rebroadcasting existing AM programming, then adopting an alternative-rock format in which entire albums were broadcast nonstop with just a break for the AM operator to flip the LP over. The station has since changed hands various times in the 1980s and now broadcasts from Toronto's [[CN Tower]] with a [[modern rock]] format. Effectively now a Toronto station, the city of license still indicates Brampton. |- ||[[KROQ-FM]] 106.7 ||[[Burbank, California|Burbank]] - [[Los Angeles]] ||[[Pasadena, California]] ||Originally owned by the Pasadena [[Presbyterian Church]] and, until 1969, broadcast from a studio in the basement of the church. Multiple changes of ownership, location, format and callsign (the station went bankrupt more than once) ended with Infinity Broadcasting (now [[Audacy]]) buying the station in 1986 and moving the studios to Burbank the following year and it is currently located in Los Angeles' Miracle Mile district. The city of license still indicates Pasadena. |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page