WEIM changes

[Sid Schweiger]

>>There was a time, not that long ago, when you had to have your studio
in the community of license.  95.7, you will recall, is the old
WMMW-FM and was originally a Meriden station.  Presumably, at some
point they wanted to move the studios to Hartford, but the Commission
was being ornery at the time and wouldn't let them discontinue
"service" to Meriden.  (Or maybe they had studios in both cities.)
The hyphenated community provided some flexibility.<<

Having more than one community listed in the legal ID became more common after the institution (in the mid-1970s, I believe) of the so-called Arizona waiver, which permitted ID'ing more than one COL when stations, particularly rimshots, started building "auxiliary" studios in nearby larger cities.  Sometime in the following decade or so the FCC finally recognized that the convoluted fictions necessary to obtaining an Arizona waiver were not justified, and dropped the legal ID requirement to just the COL, with the licensee adding anything they wanted to afterward.

Sid Schweiger
IT Manager, Entercom New England
20 Guest St / 3d Floor
Brighton MA  02135-2040