Re: WBZ-TV News on WSBK Moving to 10 PM

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:29:46 -0500 (EST), Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com> said:

> Cuz I thought only the FCC was allowed to "make up" call signs (assign 
> them, in other words).  Isn't that the same as me going on the air with a 
> Part 15 AM station and using a non-assigned call sign, say like WEAF?

Sure -- and there's nothing to stop you from doing that.  If you're
not a broadcast station, you can call yourself whatever you want -- if
that happens to be four letters beginning with W, that's no different
in the eyes of the law from any other sequence of four letters.

-GAWollman

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