Re: Fun with rimshotters

[Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>]

At 02:12 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, Aaron Read wrote:
>At 01:43 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, Scott Fybush wrote:
>>Yes and no. TV's don't automatically have "-TV" as part of the calls, as 
>>witness my own WOKR(TV) here in Rochester. I think - but
>>don't know for sure - that it would be acceptable to have a base call on 
>>WGBH(TV) and a suffixed call on WGBH-FM, though
>>that is not the case here. (It's WGBH-TV; the non-suffixed ones are 
>>WFXT(TV), WUNI(TV), WWDP(TV), WYDN(TV), WMFP(TV),
>>WUTF(TV) and WBPX(TV)...)
>
>What about with DTV?  Is it required to say WHDH-DT for example?

Garrett may have more to say about this, but my current reading of the way 
the FCC database is set up is that licenses for
DTV stations are maintained under the license of the parent TV station. Do 
a lookup in TV Query for WHDH-TV, for instance,
and it will give you listings on both 7 and 42.

The legal ID rules haven't been revised to cover DTV stations; many that 
I've seen do an ID as part of the parent analog station's
ID; a small handful (WROC-DT in Rochester is one) do a separate DTV-only 
ID. Some do none at all.

In theory, the PSIP code on DTV should make a visual or aural ID unneeded; 
whether the FCC will see it that way is another
matter.

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