Re: FCC Lenient on station ID?

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Dan Strassberg 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. 
 
They could, but at the time, 1150 was WROR, so that 105.7 had to be
WROR-FM.  It wasn't until after 105.7 started the WROR format that 1150
became WNFT.  The people who usually pick up on these call-letter changes
and report them have not so far reported a change from WROR-FM to WROR on
105.7, and the Boston Radio Archives still lists it as WROR-FM.

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