WAMU has a pretty good signal in much of metro Baltimore, especially in the car but indoors also.

WAMU in D.C. and WTMD in Towson are cooperating as they move to HD (hybrid digital and multiple channelds).

Last year, WYPR announced the purchase of a 1,000 W Ocean City station a couple of weeks after WAMU announced that it had received a permit to build a 50,000 W transmitter in Ocean City. I don't know what WAMU will do with the transmitter.

Do these observations tell knowledgeable observers anything about the future of "public" radio in our area? Is the information anything more than random noise? Will these three stations be good friends or jealous sisters?

By the way, not all members of the Your Public Radio Corporation BoD have known about WAMU's Ocean City transmitter license. Some of them may read about it here for the first time. I don't know if they were informed by an email that some of them didn't read. I don't know the cause of the ignorance, nor do I know if it means anything.