WKLB announcements

[Dan Strassberg]

Set one pushbutton on you car radio for 99.5 and another for 102.5. Then,
shortly before noon, get settled in the car, which should be parked in a
place where you get good reception of both signals, and start switching
between the two at brief intervals (30 sec?). Bring a casette recorder with
microphone with you and tape the whole confusing mess ;>)

With two more radios in your office or house, each with a
microphone-equipped casette recorder, you can also create separate tapes of
99.5 and 102.5. My guess is that you won't have to buy any radios for this
exercise; you probably have enough. But you might have to buy one or more
casette recorders--ones that can operate from AC power. Garden variety
battery-operated casette recorders without external power jacks are not
convenient to set up for remote starting. And you may also have to buy a
couple of clock-timers to start the radios and casette recorders in your
house or office at an appropriate time.

I leave it to you to decide whether you want the tapes badly enough to go
through this convoluted exercise. However, radio geeks have been known to do
more work than this for a smaller payoff.

--

Dan Strassberg
dan.strassberg@att.net
Fax: 1-707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com>
To: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: WKLB announcements


> On 20 Nov 2006 at 15:26, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>
> > I was under the impression that the ownership of both stations as well
> > as that of WJJZ Burlington NJ (Philadelphia), which is also involved,
> > had already changed at least a week ago--but I could be wrong. As for
> > the call signs, I don't think FCC rules require the Commission to
> > announce them when appoved; I think the Commission, at its discretion,
> > is allowed to withhold public notification of call-sign changes until
> > they actually occur. The FCC adopted this rule decades ago when
> > stations complained that early public announcement of call-sign
> > changes could provide competitors with advanced notice of format
> > changes, enabling them to "steal" formats. So if the ownership changes
> > have taken place, as I believe they have, the new call signs should be
> > part of legal IDs beginning at noon on December 1. We'll see.
>
> Sounds reasonable.  And if the ownership changes have already taken
> place, there must be some agreement for a short-term LMA or
> something, so that WCRB can keep operating on 102.5 and WKLB on 99.5
> until 1 December.
>
> So now the big question is, which changeover do I want to listen to,
> the one on 99.5 or the one on 102.5?
>
> --
> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                           617.367.0468
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>
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