Re: Fun with rimshotters

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 11:53 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Scott Fybush wrote:
>At 08:35 PM 2/18/2003 -0800, Martin Waters wrote:
>>Should WXKS-FM, Medford, be in your group of stations?
>
>Didn't think of that one!
>
>Kiss is one of only two true "Boston" signals (i.e. transmitting from the 
>Pru or Needham/Newton) not licensed to Boston that nevertheless has 
>studios in its COL. (WBOS's studios are in Dorchester, as are WROR's, and 
>then there's WJMN Boston with studios in Waltham, but I digress...)

Is the other one WHRB?  They have studios in their COL (Cambridge) but 
their transmitter is on top of 1 Financial Square in Boston.   Their backup 
is in Harvard Square, of course...but as any true resident of the People's 
Republic will tell you, Cambridge is NOT part of Boston!!!!!   ;-)


>And now I have to wonder...do the Waltham phone number of WJMN and the 
>Woburn phone number of WWZN (or the Quincy phone number of WROL) qualify 
>as "toll-free" from Boston for the FCC's purposes? My recollection from my 
>own Waltham days is that those were zoned, timed calls unless one had 
>"Metro" phone service. The same would then have been true of the Cambridge 
>phone numbers for WRCA, Waltham and WLYN, Lynn.

I personally would say the answer is a resounding "no" because there is no 
such thing as a "local" call for anyone calling from a business.  All calls 
from non-residential lines are toll calls charged per-minute, unless 
they're to a toll-free number.   So in that sense, all radio stations 
should be required to have toll-free numbers.



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