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WPLY (Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania)

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only one of its four antennas at greatly reduced power (250 watts) without receiving authorization, and had been doing so since Nassau purchased the station in 2000. FCC regulations require that stations unable to operate at full power must apply for a temporary authorization to operate at reduced power, which WPLY did only after the 2010 inspection, claiming that the station's antenna array was "severely deteriorated" and in need of extensive repairs.
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issued a notice of apparent liability and proposed a $ 17,000 fine against Nassau Broadcasting II, stating WPLY "willfully and repeatedly violated" FCC regulations. It stemmed from a random inspection at WPLY's facilities in March 2010, when it was discovered the station had been transmitting from
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The station originally signed on in April 1981 as WPCN. The locally-owned community station was notably innovative at the time for installing serial #1 of the Continental Model 314R1 PWM transmitter, which ushered in an era of enhanced audio fidelity and efficient, power-saving operation. (It has
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WPLY left the air June 27, 2011 to determine if its antenna system needed to be repaired or replaced. It never resumed broadcasting, and on March 6, 2014 its license was canceled for failure to broadcast for a year.
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since been replaced with a Harris Gates One.) The four towers, employing elevated feeds, were guyed with non-conductive Phillystran cable, also innovative at the time.
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The towers were dismantled and removed in early 2019, and the site, at the intersection of Interstates 380 and 80, has remained vacant.
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Article about Nassau Broadcasting's plan to "park" the call letters WPLY
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The notice also stated that WPLY did not maintain an FCC-required
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Mount Pocono
Pennsylvania
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Frequency
kHz
Format
News/Talk
Nassau Broadcasting Partners
Facility ID
Class
Power
watts
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night
41°4′41″N 75°23′33″W / 41.07806°N 75.39250°W / 41.07806; -75.39250
AM
radio station
licensed
Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania
Nassau Broadcasting Partners
news
talk radio
WVPO
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
call letters
Federal Communications Commission
2005
Federal Communications Commission
public file

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