They also scrapped clear channels to promote minority ownership which in
essence meant that if a daytime station was minority owned, it had a much
better chance of obtaining full time status then if not.  Any engineer can
tell you that the more stations on a frequency the poorer the quality of the
signal. Sometimes during local disasters, the only source of information
people have is a 50-thousand watt clear station.  For example, if Mobile
Alabama were to be hit by a hurricane, often times WWL in New Orleans is all
they have to get information from.  Yes, Mobile is well within the 750 mile
coverage area, and true that people in Illinois are not interested in
hurricanes in the South, but this hurt emergency coverage when the FCC
tampered with the 1-A. clear channel stations.
Harvey