Re: Fun with rimshotters

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:12:04 -0500, Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net> said:

> What about with DTV?  Is it required to say WHDH-DT for example?

Near as I can tell, the FCC doesn't believe in any `-DT' suffix
(except in the few occasions where it does).  Digital TV is not
licensed separately from analog TV, so from an administrative point of
view it is not possible to assign a separate callsign because the two
transmitters are part of the same station.  (Similarly to how
shortwave broadcasters like WWCR operate multiple transmitters under a
single callsign.  For internal use, a station might refer to each
transmitter separately as WWCR-1, WWCR-2, etc., but there is no
regulatory basis for this.)

-GAWollman