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

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

As I recall, no FM was involved in this flap. I believe that KABL (then
owned by the famed Gordon McLendon) even got in trouble for "KABL Oakland,
in the air everywhere in San Francisco." The idea then (remember this was in
the 60s; the rules are much different now; reading today's rules illuminates
_nothing_ about what happened then) was that the legal ID was not in any way
supposed to mention the name of a community in the market whose population
was greater than that of the COL, because listeners might construe that
mention as indicating that the station was licensed to the larger city..

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367

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


> The CFR says that a simulcasting FM and AM owned by the same licensee and
> having the same COL may ID the stations jointly, however it used to state
> specifically that the FM station needed to be identified as an FM station,
> even if the call letters of the station did not identify it as such.
>
> Looking at the examples you gave, I'm thinking that the problem was
probably
> related to this. I see nothing wrong with "KABL-AM and FM, Oakland, San
> Francisco" (assuming they both had a COL of Oakland) -- you can add any
> additional communities to the ID that you want -- but "KABL, Oakland, San
> Francisco" does not appear to be a legal identification for the FM station
> following the above rule.
>
> -J.
>
> Jason Roberts
> WCTB - WHQO - WSKW
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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."
>