RE:FMand AM legal IDs(was: WJPZ-FM Syracuse)

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Remember that, when AM/FM simulcasts were in vogue, the 
Cookie Company really went nuts over "illegal" legals. I 
remember that KABL (licensed to Oakland) was fined for 
IDing as "KABL Oakland-San Francisco." In fact, I think 
there even were problems with "KABL, Oakland SERVING San 
Francisco." So I suspect that stations that were 
simulcasting must have gotten the FCC's blassing to use 
IDs in the form "Wxxx AM and FM, City" or "Wxxx and Wxxx-
FM, City."

However, when the two stations were licensed to 
different communities in the same market, I suspect that 
some stations bent the rules, as in "Wxxx AM and FM, <AM 
City>-<FM City>." In those cases, I think only the long 
form was legal, as in "These are Columbia's Bay-area 
stations, KCBS San Jose and KCBS-FM San Francisco" (a 
real ID from the summer of 1951, just days before KCBS's 
50 kW site in the north Bay went on the air and a COL 
change to San Francico took effect). 
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> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> > I've always wondered about the once-common practice of giving the ID as "Wxxx- 
> AM & 
> > FM."  Doesn't sound to me like it's legally correct, unless the rules have 
> changed since the 
> > days when a co-owned FM station was usually just a repeater for the AM ( back 
> when I was 
> > Adam's age).
> 
> I remember stations like WPAT/Paterson and WQXR/New York doing it like 
> this
> 
> WPAT: The flagship station of Park Communications, WPAT AM and FM, 
> Paterson
> 
> WQXR: These are the radio stations of the New York Times, WQXR and 
> WQXR-FM, New York.
> 
> 
> 
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