Call letter designation question

[Larry Weil]

At 08:51 PM 1/10/2004, Scott Fybush wrote:

>There are a few gray areas these days where suffixes are concerned - the 
>"-DT" formation that most DTV stations use to ID themselves is not, as 
>best I can tell, recognized by the FCC's CDBS database, which lists DTV 
>operations under the parent analog station's callsign and facility ID 
>number, albeit with a different "service" designation. So while I'd refer 
>to "WHDH-DT (Channel 42)" or "WGBX-DT (Channel 43)," a search of the FCC 
>database would turn those licenses up under the callsigns "WHDHTV" and 
>"WGBXTV," respectively.
>
>The FCC rules are thus far silent on proper legal identification on-air 
>for DTV facilities, and the truth of the matter is, with the coming of 
>DTV, all the needed data to uniquely identify a station is present in the 
>PSIP code anyway, so the need for an aural or visual legal ID doesn't 
>really exist.

Here at Channel 7 (42), our station ID and our logs show WHDH-TV and WHDH-DT.


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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH