Talk:List of North American broadcast station classes

message: Aren't there some stations that go over these power limits? For example, WXXA-TV had an 8600 kW ERP, but it hasn't been shut down by the FCC. We should mention when the power limits were added somewhere in this article. --KelisFan2K5 14:45, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

message: This article suffers greatly from US-centrism. Most of the information relating to regulations is presented as universal, with rag-tag "exceptions" presented below. In fact, much of this information is likely different from country to country, and the page should be organized by Country first. It is almost impossible to learn anything from this page at present, especially if you aren't in the US. I don't have the knowledge to do a rewrite of this page, but appeal to anyone who does to start some major surgery here. cmh 05:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Centric Problems 

message: I was wondering, should low-power digital translators/transmitters have the suffix -LD (or DL), and should standard transmitters have the suffix of -TX if their FCC registry information has it? I know many stations do not have a -TV or -DT/-HD suffix.
As for -LP and -CA stations, should the Class-A digital stations get a -DC (or -CD) suffix, if their FCC registration information has it?
 RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 20:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suffixes 

message: I think there is a problem with the units used on this page: it keeps refering to mV/m2.  I think they meant either mW/m2 or perhaps mV/m  but not mV/m2. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.83.31.2 (talk) 15:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem with the units on this page 

message: The quoted aural power limits for TV stations are not applicable in the U.S..  See FCC Regulation 73.1560(c)(2) which limits the aural power to 22% of visual.   I'm having difficulty finding the aural power limit for LPTV/Class A stations.  (strongly suspect the full-service regulations are incorporated by reference *somewhere*...)
The LPTV and Class A digital power limits are 300 watts VHF, 15kW UHF.  See FCC Regulation 74.735(b).  
Oh, backup transmitters (DS and TS) don't have separate callsigns.  They use the same call sign as the associated main transmitter.
W9wi 06:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More on power limits for TV stations 

message: Some edits on 2010-10-20 changed the reference for the clear channel list from the FCC list to http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/ccs.htm and then added class II-A and II-B stations (which are now class B, the class of most AM stations, not class A) to the list.  At the beginning of October (last time I grabbed the FCC AM database), there were around 7867 AM stations in North America (counting each combination of frequency+class+city+state as a separate station); of those, 4328 (55%) were class B.  If there is a reason for specific class B stations to be in the list, the reason needs to be in the article with references.  (While we're at it: there are some stations notified to/by the United States (at least in the FCC database) as class A even though they're either not on clear channels or didn't used to be considered clear-channel stations.  I'll try and make a list in a while.) --Closeapple (talk) 21:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AM classes and clear channels 

message: FWIW of the Canadian stations listed above, all except CFTE are listed as Class A in the Industry Canada database.
Which doesn't explain why.
KSKY is notified to Canada as Class B.
W9wi (talk) 16:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
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message: In the references, the URL for "FM Station Classes and Contours", http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmclasses.html, is 404; the page it goes to says "The requested page '/redirect-transition/bureaus/mb/audio/fmclasses.html' could not be found." Search results  on the FCC website for "fm classes" produced this description of the most recent version of the equivalent page:
:FM Broadcast Station Classes and Service Contours
:Dec 11, 2015 - page
:The following table lists the various classes of FM stations, the reference facilities for each station class, and the protected and city grade contours for each station class.
:https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-station-classes
The title is longer than it was in the ref, but the introductory text of the page is identical, and the table appears to be. I've made the correction, with the archive information. The archive copy is titled the same as the current copy, "FM Broadcast Station Classes and Service Contours", not just "FM Station Classes and Contours" as was stated in the reference. Maybe the title changed since the ref was first put in, and some more recent editor changed the link but not the listed title. Now they're both up to date. --Thnidu (talk) 19:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  FM Broadcast Station Classes and Service Contours