Re: legal Top-of-the-Hour ID's ... old WBZ

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

On 12 Feb 00,  DonKelley@aol.com wrote:

> The FCC didn't tighten the ID rules (or at least enforce them) until the
> early 70's.  Prior to that you could get away with practically any ID as
> long as it had the calls and COL in the same sentence.  
 
So the WTIC ID that I mentioned probably was legal, since it was in the 
1960s.

When I was in college, back in the 1960s, they just told us that the legal 
ID (which, in those days, had to be on or about the hour =and half hour=) 
had to contain, somewhere, the words "WMUA" and "Amherst."  My favorite 
way to ID was "This is WMUA in Amherst, and remember, No Other Station can 
Make That Claim!"




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