Mark Bohach’s opinions about FM translators are well respected. His comments were cited in the FCC report and order that led to filing windows for AM stations to apply for cross-service translators. And Bohach was invited to speak at the 2023 Midwest Broadcast & Multimedia Technology Conference this fall in Columbus, Ohio.
Radio World followed up with him to seek his tips on getting the most out of this type of FM facility.
Translators, which rebroadcast the signal of a primary station on a different FM frequency, have become an important part of radio’s spectrum strategy toolkit.
Many commercial and noncommercial operators are using translators in ways previously unimagined, not only supplementing local coverage of an FM primary station, but leveraging them to gain a more lucrative footprint on the dial for content that originally airs on AMs or on FM HD Radio…
