Re: AM 740 not doing Legal ID

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:00:43 -0400 "David W. Harris" <dwh@totalnetnh.net>
writes:
> Mr. Wollman, working from memory, believes the legal ID on the 
> half-hour
> requirement bit the dust around 1972.  Mr. Ross, working from 
> memory,
> suspects that didn't happen until at least the 1980s.  I, working 
> from
> memory, was able to find the little booklet I studied before taking 
> my
> test at the Custom House tower in 1975.  It's called "Third Class
> Broadcast Operator Permit Study Guide," with the FCC logo on the 
> cover
> and G.P.O Bookstore price sticker (55 cents) still affixed.  The
> publication date is 1974 and ID's are required at the beginning and 
> end
> of each period of operation and "hourly, as close to the hour as
> feasible, at a natural break in program offerings."

Mr. Faneuf, working from memory, is old enough to remember when an id was
required every 15 minutes...