Re: FCC Lenient on station ID?

[ehenness@natick-amed02.army.mil]

Dan Strassberg says:

>At 04:51 AM 4/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>Are you sure? WKLB is really WKLB-FM because an AM (in KY?) has the WKLB
>calls without a suffix. But is there a AM with the WROR calls? If not, the
>calls _could_ legally be WROR. 

I've been listening on and off to WROR, and they used to have the jocks do 
a live ID as WROR-FM, Framingham-Boston, and then play the jingle they now 
use (which did not have the whispered "Framingham" in it at the time).

Around the time WROR became WNFT, the jingle became the only ID, and the 
whispered "Framingham" was added.  I suspect that the call change on 105.7 
went to the FCC when the 1150 call change did.  I have not yet checked the 
FCC database, but I'd say based on that, they are now WROR, not WROR-FM. 

Ed Hennessy

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