Re: FCC Lenient on station ID?

[ehenness@natick-amed02.army.mil]

A. Joseph Ross posted:
>> Also, WROR's top of the hour calls are: "1-0-5-point-7
>> W-R-O-R <Framingham> Boston!", with the "Framingham" barely whispered 
before
>> "Boston" - this is clearly to the letter, not spirit, of the law.
>
>Unless they've changed the station's calls without any of us picking up on
>it, this does NOT follow the letter of the law, since the station's calls
>are WROR-FM, not WROR.

True.  And I do think the FCC *used* to enforce this point.  In the '80s, 
WSNE Taunton-Providence used to do a similar thing, IDing with a jungle of 
"93.3, WSNE <Taunton> Providence!"  The word "Taunton" was spoken quietly 
and quickly between the sung calls and the sung word "Providence."  They'd 
been using it for a long time, then suddenly went to the jocks doing live 
IDs (with no other programming/liner/etc. changes).  I was never able to 
verify it, but the consensus was that they got dinged for it.

>I'm not sure about the television rules, but isn't it sufficient if the
>station shows its call letters and COL on the screen somewhere?

Yes, or they can have a purely aural ID.  One or the other is legal, and 
the requirement is for calls and COL, with channel number optional between 
the two.

Ed Hennessy

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