WILD on 97.7, gospel on 1090

[Doug Drown]

The confusion over call letters brings up a question.  Many TV stations that
I know of have dropped the "-TV" suffix since the stations' parent companies
sold off their sister radio stations.  Hence, what used to be WCSH-TV in
Portland is now referred to simply as WCSH, WMUR-TV in Manchester as WMUR,
and so forth.  This is a fairly recent trend.  Have the suffixes actually
been legally eliminated in most cases, or are the stations not using them in
their IDs just for convenience's sake?

Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@gmail.com>; "Brian Vita"
<brian_vita@cssinc.com>; <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>;
"Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: WILD on 97.7, gospel on 1090


> On 21 Oct 2005 at 14:12, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>
> > Considering that the call sign was just moved from AM, I think they
> > will keep the hyphen for the forseeable future, but that's just my
> > opinion.
>
> Well, we don't really know yet whether it was "moved" from AM, since we
don't know yet
> whether the AM will keep the calls.
>
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