WEIM changes

Scott Fybush scott@fybush.com
Fri Apr 10 10:17:57 EDT 2009


A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2009 at 11:42, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but once the ID is completed, the station can say anything they
>> want -- it's just considered part of the regular programming, not part
>> of the ID.
>  
> It may be apocryphal, but there was supposedly a station in San 
> Francisco which wanted to identify itself as "WKRP in San Francisco." 
> Of course, there's no way a station in San Francisco was going to get 
> a W-call.  So they changed their call letters to KRPN.  Their legal 
> ID went "This is W  KRPN San Francisco."

I think you're about 800 miles off. The station was in Roy, Utah, a 
suburb of Salt Lake City...but the ID was indeed as you describe, "W 
KRPN Roy Salt Lake City."

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