Soxless Boss

[Scott Fybush]

John Francini wrote:

> You mean WEEI-FM on 107.3, right?  Wonder what sort of calls 103.7 would 
> get, unless it was one of those multi-transmitter simulcasts. (I 
> remember such a thing in the San Francisco Bay Area--IIRC, there was a 
> single station, with a single set of calls, on 98.9 and 99.1 -- 98.9 was 
> in San Jose, 99.1 in San Francisco.  But I could be wrong!)

'Twas two separate licenses, with two separate calls. It was KDBK 98.9 
San Francisco/KDBQ 99.1 Santa Cruz, during the "Double 99" period. I 
think Viacom owned them then. Today, the stations are still 
simulcasting, under Univision Radio, as "Estereo Sol" KSOL 98.9/KSQL 99.1.

The only way to have multiple transmitters with the "same" call is if 
you have a main transmitter and boosters on the same channel, and even 
then the boosters actually have separate calls, though they're not 
announced on the air. (KSOL, for instance, has on-channel boosters 
KSOL-FM2 in Sausalito and KSOL-FM3 in Pleasanton. Dunno what happened to 
KSOL-FM1.)

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