RE: AM 740 not doing Legal ID

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

WKXL-AM Concord/WKXL-FM Hillsboro-Concord-Manchester would NOT be legal
then, correct? (They say -AM)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> Strassberg
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:53 PM
> To: Joseph Pappalardo; Peter Murray; bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: AM 740 not doing Legal ID
>
>
> * The frequency is permitted and is optional (as in WXXX 1710, Anytown).
> * The widely used (at least during the days of AM/FM simulcasts)
> WXXX AM and
> FM Anytown is NOT legal.
> * AM as a suffix to the calls or as part of the frequency is NOT legal.
> * Hence the references to WBUR AM W Yarmouth in the WBUR-FM legal does not
> constitute a legal ID for the AM. (But Dave Faneuf has explained that that
> ID is not heard as the legal on WBUR (AM)).
> * FM is legal only if it is a suffix on the legal call sign.
> * Hence WROR-FM 105.7 Framingham-BOSTON is legal.
> * WMJX FM 106.7 Boston would not be legal because the calls are WMJX (FM)
> and the letters in parenthesis are NOT part of the legal call sign. Hence
> they are not supposed to be spoken as part of the legal ID.
> * I'll bet that there is at most one person in the entire FCC who
> understands these rules and not even one who gives a damn.
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> 617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joseph Pappalardo <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
> To: Peter Murray <pete@partnercomm.com>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:54 PM
> Subject: Re: AM 740 not doing Legal ID
>
>
> > I think about a year ago we discussed this topic (ad
> naseum)......but, if
> I
> > recall, the <frequency> is not optional...
> >
>
>