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Unbuiilt AM Won't Move From VT To East Greenbush

The unbuilt AM station that wanted to move from Vermont to Albany won't get to make that move after all. Alfredo Alonso and Charles Hecht applied back in 2008 to move WVVT (670) from Essex Junction, Vermont to East Greenbush, where they proposed a four-tower array cranking out 15 kW by day and 260 watts at night. But that move drew a protest from adjacent-channel WFAN (660) in New York, which complained that Hecht and Alonso had deliberately taken their ground-conductivity measurements on WFAN at the worst possible time of the year. WFAN submitted its own set of measurements, taken in January, that showed overlap between WFAN and the proposed WVVT. Last week, the FCC sided with WFAN and dismissed WVVT's application for East Greenbush. Hecht and Alonso still have until April 26, 2011 to build out WVVT's original Vermont construction permit, or to come up with a new modification application. (NorthEast Radio Watch)