91-658: Osage Beach is a city in Camden and Miller counties in the U.S. state of Missouri , near the Lake of the Ozarks . Most of the city is in Camden County, while a small eastern sliver is in Miller County. The population was 4,637 at the 2020 census. Osage Beach was founded in 1886 as Zebra before being renamed as Osage Beach in 1935. Osage Beach was incorporated in 1959. When the Lake of
182-539: A cholera epidemic struck Erie, leaving only 7 survivors. As a result, the county seat was changed to Linn Creek in 1855. Camden County saw some fighting during the American Civil War . [REDACTED] 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment [REDACTED] 13th Illinois Cavalry Regiment On October 13, 1861, the Battle of Monday's Hollow took place. Colonel John Wyman led the 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment from
273-405: A city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast law, the concept of community of license dates to the early days of AM radio broadcasting. The requirement that a broadcasting station operate a main studio within a prescribed distance of
364-495: A catch—at least there's supposed to be. The Commission is required by Section 307(b) of the Communications Act "to provide a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of radio service" to "the several States and communities." The FCC cannot simply permit radio stations to relocate from rural areas to well-served urban markets without violating that mandate. That's when the game gets interesting. Under our FM allotment rules,
455-748: A compromise location to serve both Knoxville and the Tri-Cities of Tennessee and Virginia on VHF channel 2. It met the minimum distance requirements to two other channel 2 stations in the region, WKRN in Nashville and WSB-TV in Atlanta . This became less important after full-power UHF satellite WKOP-TV signed on in Knoxville, and irrelevant once the 2003-09 DTV transition and 2016-21 repack moved WETP's main signal to physical channel UHF 24. Nonetheless, broadcasters and regulatory authorities are more likely to retain
546-661: A county caucus, which selected a delegation favoring Santorum. Incumbent President Barack Obama easily won the Missouri Democratic Primary and renomination. He defeated Romney in the general election. In 2008, the Missouri Republican Presidential Primary was closely contested, with Senator John McCain (R- Arizona ) prevailing and eventually winning the nomination. Then- Senator Hillary Clinton (D- New York ) received more votes than any candidate from either party in Camden County during
637-763: A de facto preference by regulators to encourage the assignment of broadcast licenses to smaller cities which otherwise would have no local voice, instead of allowing all broadcast activity to be concentrated in large metropolitan areas already served by many existing broadcasters. When dealing with multiple competing US radio station applications, current FM allotment priorities are: (1) first full-time aural service; (2) second full-time aural service; (3) first local aural transmission service; and (4) Other public interest matters. Similar criteria were extended to competing applicants for non-commercial stations by US legislation passed in 2000. Any policy favoring applicants for communities not already served by an existing station has had
728-438: A field strength of 1 mV/m over 50% of the community's population. This electric field contour is called the "principal community contour". The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) makes other requirements on stations relative to their communities of license; these requirements have varied over time. One example is the requirement for stations to identify themselves, by call sign and community, at sign-on, sign-off, and at
819-524: A full-service station maintain local presence in its community of license has been used by proponents of localism and community broadcasting as a means to oppose the construction and use of local stations as mere rebroadcasters or satellite-fed translators of distant stations. Without specific requirements for service to the local community of license, stations could be constructed in large number by out-of-region broadcasters who feed transmitters via satellite and offer no local content. There also has been
910-519: A household in the county was $ 35,840, and the median income for a family was $ 40,695. Males had a median income of $ 28,020 versus $ 20,825 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 20,197. About 8.00% of families and 11.40% of the population were below the poverty line , including 17.00% of those under age 18 and 7.70% of those age 65 or over. According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report (2010), Camden County
1001-400: A huge mainstream audience in the larger metropolitan area. To avoid co-channel interference , a minimum distance is maintained between stations operating on the same frequency in different markets. On VHF , full-power stations are typically 175 miles or more apart before the same channel is used again. An otherwise-desirable channel may therefore be unavailable to a community unless either it
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#17328445379041092-439: A main studio within a station's primary coverage area or within a maximum distance of the community of license originated in an era in which stations were legally required to generate local content and the majority of a station's local, non-network programming was expected to originate in one central studio location. In this context, the view of broadcast regulators held that an expedient way to ensure that content broadcast reflected
1183-433: A market. Additional stations would be possible by transmitting the extra signals from a station technically in an adjacent market. In some cases, stations were constructed or acquired with the express purpose of driving a regional or province-wide chain of full-power repeaters. Which of these "satellite stations" would be designated as the main signal could be an arbitrary choice, as the programming carried on all stations in
1274-466: A median income of $ 30,444 versus $ 21,440 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 22,685. About 4.5% of families and 6.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 5.3% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those age 65 or over. Osage Beach has a public library , the Osage Beach Library. Osage Beach is split between two television markets. While Camden County is part of
1365-483: A move out-of-state. A new network or station group will often enter a market after all of the most valuable available frequencies (such as the analogue VHF TV assignments in major cities) are already taken. This often results in building a network by constructing outlying stations, UHF stations, underpowered stations or some mix of all three. That can leave transmitters licensed to some very strange or tiny places. This happened to some degree with networks which signed on in
1456-537: A prospective broadcaster, could locate transmitters midway between Pittston, Pennsylvania (the city of license), and a larger audience in Wilkes-Barre . A related problem was that of 'move-in'. Outlying communities would find their small-town local stations sold to outsiders, who would then attempt to change the community of license to a suburb of the nearest major city, move transmitter locations or remove existing local content from broadcasts in an attempt to move into
1547-451: A public inspection file) are still applied, removal of the requirement that stations originate local content greatly weakens the significance of maintaining a local main studio. A facility capable of originating programming and feeding it to a transmitter must still exist, but under normal conditions there most often is no requirement that these local studio actually be in active use to originate any specific local programming. In many cases,
1638-421: A second licence (and taking all the obligations which go with it) for each subchannel, returning just the spectrum (and keeping the licence) can be used as a means to recycle licences from abandoned, defunct outlying stations for use elsewhere in the network. Occasionally, a station owner would reach a legal limit on concentration of media ownership , already having the maximum number of commonly owned stations in
1729-554: A short time while resolving a license conflict and ownership transaction in 1989, the current day KCAL-TV in Los Angeles was licensed to the little-known southeast suburb of Norwalk, California , with the station's identifications at the time only vocally mentioning the temporary city of license in a rushed form, with Norwalk barely receiving any visual mention on the station; at no time were any station assets actually based in Norwalk, nor
1820-441: A small margin. The 2012 Missouri Republican Presidential Primary's results were nonbinding on the state's national convention delegates. Voters in Camden County supported former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R- Pennsylvania ), who finished first in the state at large, but eventually lost the nomination to former Governor Mitt Romney (R- Massachusetts ). Delegates to the congressional district and state conventions were chosen at
1911-429: A strong signal over nearly all of its "principal community" (5 mV/m or stronger at night for AM stations, 70 dbuV for FM, 35 dbu for DTV channels 2–6, 43 dbu for channels 7-13 and 48 dbu for channels 14+), even if it primarily serves another city. For example, American television station WTTV primarily serves Indianapolis ; however, the transmitter is located farther south than the other stations in that city because it
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#17328445379042002-521: A trauma center and has a total of 116 beds. The TV series Ozark is set in Osage Beach. In November 2017, it was reported that the series helped increase tourism and notoriety of the Lake of the Ozarks , but did not have a significant economic impact. In February 2018, a restaurant called "Marty Byrde's" was opened in Lake Ozark, Missouri , that is inspired by the series, and includes menu items based on
2093-491: 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
2184-535: Is "sharing" space on WGBX , a full-power non-commercial station in the heart of the Boston market. The same transmitter can, by using two different licences in a "channel sharing" arrangement, have two different communities of licence - which may allow more flexibility for its location. It is also possible to mix commercial and non-commercial licences. In Canada, where CRTC regulations prevent carrying any additional, unique programming on digital subchannels without obtaining
2275-624: Is a list of radio stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to Osage Beach, Missouri. There are two general aviation airports in the Osage Beach area: Grand Glaize-Osage Beach Airport , which is within the city limits, and Lee C. Fine Memorial Airport , which is located about 7 miles (11 km) away in Kaiser . The nearest primary commercial airports are Columbia Regional Airport (about 65 miles [105 km] away) and Springfield–Branson National Airport (about 93 miles [150 km] away). The smaller Waynesville-St. Robert Regional Airport
2366-529: Is about 53 miles (85 km) away. US Route 54 runs through Osage Beach. US Route 54 runs north to Jefferson City . US Route 54 runs south to Camdenton . As Osage Beach is predominantly a resort town, as such it boasts several tourist attractions and amenities, including an outlet mall with major national brands. Osage Beach is home to Lake Regional Hospital . Part of the Lake Regional Health system, this general medical and surgical hospital houses
2457-592: Is land and 53 square miles (140 km ) (7.4%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 37,051 people, 15,779 households, and 11,297 families residing in the county. The population density was 57 people per square mile (22 people/km ). There were 33,470 housing units at an average density of 51 units per square mile (20/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 97.68% White , 0.26% Black or African American , 0.49% Native American , 0.29% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 0.22% from other races , and 1.03% from two or more races. Approximately 0.93% of
2548-599: Is licensed to Bloomington , 50 miles south of Indianapolis (it maintains a satellite station, WTTK, licensed to Kokomo, Indiana , but in the digital age, WTTK is for all intents and purposes the station's main signal, transmitting from the traditional Indianapolis transmitter site). In some cases, such as Jeannette, Pennsylvania -licensed WPKD-TV 19, the FCC has waived this requirement; the station claimed that retaining an existing transmitter site 25.6 miles southeast of its new community of license of Jeannette would be in compliance with
2639-416: Is no longer a requirement to carry programs relevant to the particular community, or even necessarily to operate or transmit from that community. Accordingly, stations licensed to smaller communities in major metropolitan markets often target programming toward the entire market rather than the official home community, and often move their studio facilities to the larger urban centre as well. For instance,
2730-405: Is operated at greatly reduced-height and power, forced onto a strongly directional antenna pattern to protect the distant co-channel station or relocated to some other, more distant location in the region to maintain proper spacing. The choice of another community as home for a station can be one possible means to avoid short-spacing, effectively shifting the entire station's coverage area to maintain
2821-468: Is part of the Bible Belt , with evangelical Protestantism being the most predominant religion. The most predominant denominations among residents in Camden County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists (33.09%), nondenominational evangelical groups (13.92%), and Roman Catholics (11.44%). The Republican Party predominantly controls politics at the local level in Camden County. Camden County
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2912-664: Is split between two legislative districts that elect members of the Missouri House of Representatives , both of which are represented by Republicans. All of Camden County is a part of Missouri's 16th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Justin Brown (R- Rolla ). Most of Camden County is included in Missouri's 3rd Congressional District and is currently represented by Blaine Luetkemeyer (R- St. Elizabeth ) in
3003-470: Is true for WJSU, which served East Alabama with local news until the station was merged into a triplex to form ABC 33/40 which focuses its coverage on the central part of the state. A 1988 precedent case (Faye and Richard Tuck, 3 FCC Rcd 5374, 1988) created the "Tuck Analysis" as a standard which attempts to address the Suburban Community Problem on a case-by-case basis by examining: Despite
3094-542: The 2020 census there were 4,792 people. At the 2010 census there were 4,351 people, 2,038 households, and 1,166 families living in the city. The population density was 446.3 inhabitants per square mile (172.3/km). There were 5,261 housing units at an average density of 539.6 per square mile (208.3/km). The racial makeup of the city was 93.6% White, 1.1% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 2.4% from other races, and 1.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.8%. Of
3185-522: The Fox River southwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin , stations in the Green Bay–Appleton area identify as "Green Bay/ Fox Cities " (e.g. " WBAY-TV , Green Bay/Fox Cities"); Green Bay-licensed stations thus still carry an official identification, while providing the ability for stations licensed to other places in the region to officially prefix their name before the mention of "Green Bay/Fox Cities". There
3276-555: The Springfield television market, Miller County is part of the Columbia / Jefferson City market. Charter Communications ' cable system carries stations from both cities. DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers in the city receive Springfield stations, mainly because the bulk of the city is in Camden County. The following is a list of television stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to Osage Beach, Missouri. The following
3367-437: The U.S. House of Representatives . Luetkemeyer was elected to a seventh term in 2020 over Democratic challenger Megan Rezabek. Part of Camden County is included in Missouri's 4th Congressional District and is currently represented by Vicky Hartzler (R- Harrisonville ) in the U.S. House of Representatives . Hartzler was elected to a sixth term in 2020 over Democratic challenger Lindsey Simmons. Camden County, along with
3458-479: The "community" functionally no longer exists in order to be released from its local obligations. Often, the city of license does not correspond to the location of the station itself, of the primary audience or of the communities identified in the station's branding and advertising. Some of the more common reasons for a community of license to be listed as a point far from the actual audience include: A broadcaster may wish to serve two different communities, both in
3549-689: The 1960s, such as National Educational Television in the US or the CTV Television Network in Canada. Later entrants fared worse. In the U.S., PAX Network (now Ion Television ) was prone to this, building a network largely from outlying owned-and-operated UHF stations. In Canada, third networks such as Global were often a motley collection of outlying stations in their early years. CKGN-TV , Ontario's original "Global Television Network" repeater chain, signed on in 1974 in an already densely-packed stretch of
3640-424: The 2,038 households 19.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.3% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.8% were non-families. 35.3% of households were one person and 13% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.04 and the average family size was 2.57. The median age
3731-429: The 2008 presidential primary. Despite initial reports that Clinton had won Missouri, Barack Obama (D- Illinois ), also a Senator at the time, narrowly defeated her statewide and later became that year's Democratic nominee, going on to win the presidency. 38°02′N 92°46′W / 38.03°N 92.77°W / 38.03; -92.77 City of License In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting,
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3822-450: The Canadian radio station CFNY-FM is officially licensed to Brampton, Ontario , although its studio and transmitter facilities are located in downtown Toronto . This may, at times, lead to confusion — while media directories normally list broadcast stations by their legal community of license, audiences often disregard (or may even be entirely unaware of) the distinction. For instance, for
3913-539: The Commission will give a preference to any applicant that proposes to serve a community with no current licensees—i.e., not that the community doesn't receive radio service (it could receive service from dozens of stations) but that no station lists that particular community as its "community of license." That's where a good atlas comes in handy. The next step is to scour the maps to find a community near an urban area that doesn't yet have any stations licensed to it. You win
4004-628: The Democratic and Republican parties were held in Missouri on March 10. On the Democratic side, former Vice President Joe Biden (D- Delaware ) both won statewide and carried Camden County by a wide margin. Biden went on to defeat President Donald Trump in the general election. Incumbent President Donald Trump (R- Florida ) faced a primary challenge from former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld , but won both Camden County and statewide by overwhelming margins. The 2016 presidential primaries for both
4095-590: The Missouri State Guard in the direction of Lebanon. Wyman remained in his camp for several days after the Battle of Monday's Hollow. Southern partisans took control of an undefended Linn Creek. On October 14, 1861, the Frémont Battalion descended on the town and drove out the southerners, taking 37 prisioners. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 709 square miles (1,840 km ), of which 656 square miles (1,700 km )
4186-482: The Ozarks was created, it caused the flooding of much of Zebra. Most of the town's merchants chose not to establish new locations. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 10.33 square miles (26.75 km), of which 9.75 square miles (25.25 km) is land and 0.58 square miles (1.50 km) is water. The city is located on the shores of the Lake of the Ozarks . At
4277-467: The Republican and Democratic parties were held in Missouri on March 15. Businessman Donald Trump (R- New York ) narrowly won the state overall, but carried a majority of the vote in Camden County. He went on to win the presidency. On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D- New York ) narrowly won statewide, but Senator Bernie Sanders (I- Vermont ) carried Camden County by
4368-659: The United Kingdom and leader of the British Whig Party . Camden County is also the primary setting of the Netflix show Ozark. There is no preserved record of the area that is now Camden County being inhabited before 1827, when Kentuckian settlers Harrison Davis and Reuben Berry pitched a camp on the Dry Auglaize Creek, eight miles east of what is now Linn Creek . Throughout the next few years, more settlers came into
4459-540: The United States, the Communications Act of 1934 requires that "the Commission shall make such distribution of licenses, frequencies, hours of operation, and of ower among the several States and communities as to provide a fair, efficient, and equitable distribution of radio service to each of the same." The Federal Communications Commission interprets this as requiring that every broadcast station "be licensed to
4550-538: The area, and by 1831, there were thirteen families living near the Dry Auglaize. Records of settling the Wet Auglaize Creek date back to the beginning of 1832. The first school in Camden County was built on a farm in 1833. The town of Oregon was established in 1841 and became the county seat. In 1843, when the name of the county was changed from Kinderhook to Camden, the name of Oregon was changed to Erie. In 1854,
4641-406: The beaten-path Windsor-Quebec corridor in which few desirable channels were available. Cities such as Windsor , London , Toronto , Peterborough , Kingston and Cornwall are notable by their absence from the network's original roster. The five transmitters on-air in 1984 (after a decade of operation as a struggling "third network") were: The majority of these transmitters were not licensed to
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#17328445379044732-426: The best intentions of regulators, the system remains prone to manipulation. This has almost become a parlor game. The goal of the game—whether you're applying for a new station or a station currently licensed to a rural area—is to move as close to a big market as possible. The closer you get to a big market, the more potential listeners you can reach and hence the more advertising dollars you can attract. But there's
4823-527: The city was 97.35% White, 0.76% African American, 0.41% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.16% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.20% of the total population. Of the 1,687 households 19.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.2% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.6% were non-families. 31.6% of households were one person and 10.9% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size
4914-444: The commission's minimum distance separation requirements (avoiding interference to co-channel WOIO 19 Shaker Heights ). Another extreme example of a station's transmitter located far from the city of license is the FM station KPNT , formerly licensed to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri , and transmitting from Hillsboro , but serving the St. Louis and Metro East market to the north. In 2015,
5005-410: The community which the station is licensed to serve appears in U.S. law as early as 1939. Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism , both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers. In
5096-551: The county since Stephen Douglas in 1860 . Underlining how Republican the county is, it rejected native son Harry Truman in 1944 when he was Roosevelt's running mate, and when he headed the ticket himself in 1948. Jimmy Carter is the only Democrat since Roosevelt to manage even 40 percent of the county's vote. Like most rural areas in western Missouri, voters in Camden County generally adhere to socially and culturally conservative principles which tend to influence their Republican leanings. The 2020 presidential primaries for both
5187-505: The east towards Linn Creek, while the 13th Illinois Cavalry Regiment , consisting of Major Clark Wright's Frémont Battalion and Major W.D. Bowen's First Battalion headed southwest towards Lebanon . Bowen's forces collided with a Missouri State Guard cavalry unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel J.M. "Myscal" Johnson. Bowen called for assistance from Wright and Wyman, halting near where Missouri Route 7 now crosses Murphy Creek. The Union forces saw Johnson's cavalry, and Wyman attacked, driving
5278-405: The elimination of requirements (in 1987 for most classes of US broadcast stations) that broadcasters originate any minimum amount of local content. While the main studio concept nominally remains in US broadcast regulations, and certain administrative requirements (such as the local employment of a manager and the equivalent of at least one other full-time staff member, as well as the maintenance of
5369-452: The entire metropolitan area rather than with the particular needs of their specified communities," according to an FCC policy statement of the era. In order "to discourage applicants for smaller communities who would be merely substandard stations for neighboring, larger communities," the FCC established the so-called "Suburban Community presumption" which required applicants for AM stations in such markets to demonstrate that they had ascertained
5460-448: The game if you get the FCC to grant you a preference for providing "first service" to a close-in suburban community while being able to cover the larger market. While becoming less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post a public file somewhere within 25 miles of the city, and to cover the entire city with a local radio signal . In the United States, a station's transmitter must be located so that it can provide
5551-505: The larger city. The small town of Anniston, Alabama , due to its location 90 miles west of Atlanta and 65 miles east of Birmingham , has lost local content from both TV and FM stations which were re-targeted at one of the two larger urban centers or moved outright. ( WHMA-FM Anniston is now licensed as WNNX College Park, Georgia —an Atlanta suburb—after a failed attempt to relicense it to Sandy Springs, Georgia —another Atlanta suburb . Transmitters are now in downtown Atlanta.) The same
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#17328445379045642-407: The largest audiences and much of the FM spectrum lay vacant. In the era of vacuum tubes , 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
5733-494: The mountain peaks. This occasionally left stations with a distant mountaintop (or its nearest small crossroads) as the historical city of license, even though the audience was elsewhere. Often, a license for a new station will not be available in a community, either because a regulatory agency was only willing to accept new applications within specified narrow timeframes or because there are no suitable vacant channels. A prospective broadcaster must therefore buy an existing station as
5824-435: The nearest large city. For example, CBS affiliate WOIO is licensed to Shaker Heights , a suburb of Cleveland , and thus identifies as "WOIO Shaker Heights-Cleveland." Similarly, northern New York 's WWNY-TV (also a CBS affiliate) identifies as "WWNY-TV 7 Carthage - Watertown " as a historical artifact; the original broadcasts originated from Champion Hill in 1954 so the license still reflects this tiny location. If
5915-416: The needs of a local community was to allocate local broadcast stations and studios to each individual city. The nominal main studio requirement has become less relevant with the introduction of videotape recorders in 1956 (which allowed local content to be easily generated off-site and transported to stations), the growing portability of broadcast-quality production equipment due to transistorization , and
6006-600: The number of stations under common ownership. In the early days of television, the majority of stations could be found on the VHF band; in North America, this currently represents just twelve possible channels and in large markets any suitable allocations in this range were mostly full by the early 1950s. Occasionally, a prospective broadcaster could obtain one of these coveted positions by acquiring an existing station or permit in an adjacent community - although in some cases this meant
6097-466: The only way to readily enter the market, in some cases being left with a station in a suburban, outlying or adjacent-market area if that were the only facility available for sale. Occasionally, a community on an international border is served using a station licensed to another country . This may provide access to less restrictive broadcast regulation or represent a means to use local marketing agreements or adjacent-market licenses to circumvent limits on
6188-631: The original city of license, rather than bring unwanted scrutiny for taking away a small community's only station, which may be a mark of civic pride , only to move it to some larger center which already has multiple stations. In the United States , the Federal Communications Commission maintains a Table of Allotments, which assigns individual channel frequencies to individual cities or communities for both TV and FM radio . A corresponding Table of Allotments for digital television
6279-441: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 15,779 households, out of which 23.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.80% were married couples living together, 6.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.40% were non-families. 23.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
6370-449: The primary community served. Many were underpowered, short-spaced or in undesirable locations - often just putting enough signal into key communities to obtain cable must-carry protection. As the only transmitters to be operating on then-valuable VHF channels at anything other than greatly-reduced power were licensed to Paris and Bancroft, both awkward outlying communities, the Paris transmitter
6461-425: The principal community or other political subdivision which it primarily serves." For each broadcast service, the FCC defines a standard for what it means to serve a community; for example, commercial FM radio stations are required to provide a field strength of at least 3.16 millivolts per meter (mV/m) over the entire land area of the community, whereas non-commercial educational FM stations need only provide
6552-403: The required distances between transmitters. In hilly or mountainous regions, a city would often be built in a waterfront or lakeside location (such as Plattsburgh - Burlington , both on Lake Champlain ) - lower ground which in turn would be surrounded by tall mountain peaks. The only reliable means to get the VHF television or radio signals over the mountains was to build a station atop one of
6643-401: The rest of the state of Missouri, is represented in the U.S. Senate by Josh Hawley (R- Columbia ) and Roy Blunt (R- Strafford ). Blunt was elected to a second term in 2016 over then-Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander . Camden County has long been a Republican stronghold. The last Democrat to carry the county was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 , the only time a Democrat has won
6734-498: The same content. The 2016-2020 OTA TV repack opened additional possibilities for using an outlying community's licence as an over-the-air placeholder. Buy a station, return the licensed broadcast spectrum to the government, then claim to be "sharing" a channel with another broadcaster by using the orphan licence to place content on one of their digital subchannels . Suddenly, an outlying commercial low-power station in New Hampshire
6825-430: The same region but far enough from each other that a transmitter in one market would provide poor service to the other. While a transmitter in each community served would be preferable, occasionally a station licensed to a small town between the two larger centres will be used. In FM radio broadcasting, small local stations were sometimes built to serve suburban or outlying areas in an era where AM radio stations held
6916-401: The show, including "Ruth's Smoked Wings". Camden County, Missouri Camden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri . As of the 2020 Census , the population was 42,745. Its county seat is Camdenton . The county was organized on January 29, 1841, as Kinderhook County and renamed Camden County in 1843 after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , Lord Chancellor of
7007-408: The state and its containing county of Fulton . The definition of a "community" also comes into play when a broadcaster wants to take a station away from a tiny hamlet like North Pole, New York , whose population is in decline. In general, regulators are loathe to allow a community's only license to be moved away - especially to a city which already has a station. A broadcaster may make the case that
7098-475: The station is licensed in the primary city served, on occasion the station will list a second city or region next to it. For example, the Tampa Bay region's Fox owned-and-operated station WTVT is licensed to Tampa, Florida , its primary city, but identifies on-air as "WTVT Tampa/ St. Petersburg ", as St. Petersburg is another major city in the market. To encompass Appleton and the smaller cities clustered around
7189-501: The station is unwatchable — but, even if the underlying over-the-air signal was not valuable, the corresponding cable television slots in the various communities it was almost serving were. Any full-service domestic signal above some arbitrary minimum had access to " must carry " protection, could request favourable placement on the dial and (in Canada) could engage in signal substitution to take ad revenue from other stations already carrying
7280-453: The station was allowed by the FCC to move their city of license to Collinsville, Illinois , and have a transmitter in St. Louis proper with a power decrease. FCC regulations also require stations at least once an hour to state the station's call letters, followed by the city of license. However, the FCC has no restrictions on additional names after the city of license, so many stations afterwards add
7371-458: The top of every hour of operation. Other current requirements include providing a local telephone number in the community's calling area (or else a toll-free number). The former requirement to (in most cases) maintain an official main studio within 25 miles of the community's geographic center was discontinued in December 2017 when the regulation was amended. The requirement that a station maintain
7462-472: The unincorporated areas around the city that share a mailing address. This sometimes leads to inconsistencies, such as the licensing of one metro Atlanta station to the unincorporated Cobb County community of Mableton , but the refusal to license another to Sandy Springs , which is one of the largest cities in the state, and was at the time an unincorporated part of Fulton County due to political complications involving its eventual incorporation from both
7553-417: The unintended effect of encouraging applicants to merely list a small suburb of a large city, claiming to be the "first station in the community" even though the larger city is well served by many existing stations. "The Suburban Community Problem" was recognized in FCC policy as early as 1965. "Stations in metropolitan areas often tend to seek out national and regional advertisers and to identify themselves with
7644-474: The unmet programming needs of the specific communities and were prepared to satisfy those needs. By 1969, the same issues had spread to FM licensing; instead of building transmitters in the community to nominally be served, applicants would often seek to locate the tower site at least halfway to the next major city. In one such precedent case (the Berwick Doctrine), the FCC required a hearing before Berwick,
7735-793: The use of centralcasting and broadcast automation has greatly weakened the role and importance of manual control by staff at the nominal local station studio facilities. Exceptions to these rules have been made by regulators, primarily on a case-by-case basis, to deal with "satellite stations": transmitters which are licensed to comply with the technical requirements of full service broadcast facilities and have their own independent call signs and communities of license but are used simply as full-power broadcast translators to rebroadcast another station. These are most often non-commercial educational stations or stations serving thinly populated areas which otherwise would be too small to support an independent local full-service broadcaster. The requirement that
7826-416: Was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.58. The age distribution was 16.0% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 29.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% 65 or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 96.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.9 males. The median household income was $ 38,448 and the median family income was $ 49,554. Males had
7917-401: Was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.68. In the county, the population was spread out, with 20.30% under the age of 18, 6.10% from 18 to 24, 23.30% from 25 to 44, 31.40% from 45 to 64, and 19.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 100.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.50 males. The median income for
8008-534: Was 48.9 years. 15.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.2% were from 25 to 44; 31.3% were from 45 to 64; and 24% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.9% male and 51.1% female. At the 2000 census there were 3,662 people, 1,687 households, and 1,035 families living in the city. The population density was 389.8 inhabitants per square mile (150.5/km). There were 4,055 housing units at an average density of 431.6 per square mile (166.6/km). The racial makeup of
8099-406: Was arbitrarily listed as the main station for the entire network. Sometimes, putting a usable over-the-air signal into the primary community served is anywhere from second-priority to not a priority at all. A station could be barely within the market's boundaries or be underpowered to the point of putting a "B" grade signal into the community at best. On anything less than a huge rooftop antenna,
8190-431: Was created in 1997. To operate a licensed station, a broadcaster must first obtain allocation of the desired frequencies in the FCC's Table of Allotments for the intended city of license. This process is subject to various political and bureaucratic restrictions, based on considerations including the number of existing stations in the area. The term "city" has in some cases been relaxed to mean "community", often including
8281-503: Was public affairs or news programming adjusted to become Norwalk-centric over that of Los Angeles and Southern California . The station returned to its Los Angeles city of license after the transaction was complete. Often, a station will keep a tiny outlying community in its licensing and on-air identity long after the original rationale for choosing that location is no longer truly applicable. Sneedville, Tennessee , as city of license for PBS member station WETP-TV originally made sense as
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