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

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

Like Portland ME's (WJB)Q 97-dot-9.

(Which I can get in Derry, if I turn my YB400 in a certain direction, away
from the MIGHTY W250AB in Manchester-Downtown)


Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

- -----Original Message-----
From:	owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of
SteveOrdinetz
Sent:	Saturday, June 27, 1998 4:31 PM
To:	boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject:	Re: Is It 98.5 WITH or WITHOUT a decimal point?

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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