Re: Is It 98.5 WITH or WITHOUT a decimal point?

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 11:01 AM 6/26/98 -0400, Keith Barry wrote:

>
>Does anyone else think that it might have something to do with the internet
>web-page address problem of not being able to include decimal points in a
>domain name? If a listener, new to the internet, typed in
>"http://www.mix98.5.com", he or she would not get the WBMX web page. It does
>seem like a rather foolish provision, but then again, remember the ratings
>confusion between WCLB and WCVB? Need I say more? Or, has the moniker
>changed to make the announcements more smooth? It's a lot easier to say "Mix
>98-five" than add that "point" in there!
>

The ones that I think sound really lame are the stations that say
"ninety-eight-dot-five" trying to sound internet savvy.  

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