Today is final day of 980 the beast and tommarow new format starts special thanks go to radioinsight.com for info
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We should be able to hear the flip online as well as on air. The new owners are also clients of Triton Digital (Stream The World) so no change needed there.
So perhaps today is Jim Rome's last day heard in LA for the time being since Desi 980 isn't quite ready yet, and CBS Sports Radio is running 24/7 on 980 until it is (well, nearly 24/7 except for live sports).
Another perfect opportunity for a cool stunt, but like so many others, it is passed by. Nobody takes the fun out of radio like radio itself.
Plaschke and Zelasko said yesterday morning that CBS Sports Radio would play today until noon.
Right now they are airing a loop of KFWB History (lasting about 5-6 min or so); The new Desi 980 website says "Stay Tuned..."
wish could record it
can u record it
You know. I love the idea that they are honoring the station by giving us a short history of KFWB on a loop. But I'm wondering who put it together? I don't want to be negative, I do applaud the nod to KFWB's historical significance, but I was disappointed with what I heard.
Bryan....agreed. The entirety of the all-news era of KFWB, the one that is most familiar to the recent generations of listeners, and an amazing impactful multiple decades run as a public service in this market, is all but omitted, with just a brief reference to its launch date.
I thought that myself!
http://desi980am.com - a Listen Live! link has been added. Interesting, that for the first 24 hours the background music was an early 20th century music bed. Now the 5 minute history of KFWB loop is running on top of what sounds like a Bollywood music bed.
And now it seems to be on the desi format, the stream anyway. Wikipedia says they have applied for the call letters kdsi. So who owns KFWB (in name only). I can't stand it when companies buy heritage stations, change the calls and just hold the old ones.
Nobody cares about signs anymore, except for well. . . geeks like us. Let the old flag fly, like KHJ, or give it back to CBS Radio and let them apply it to some other station in the market.
Nobody cares about signs anymore, except for well. . . geeks like us. Let the old flag fly, like KHJ, or give it back to CBS Radio and let them apply it to some other station in the market.
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K.M. Richards
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As often happens with that "anyone can edit whether they are correct or not" resource, Wikipedia is wrong. I just checked in the FCC CDBS and the calls KDSI are not available for assignment. The new owners will need to jump through some legal hoops to get them.
980 still legally has the KFWB calls. If and when they are replaced, they'll be up for grabs, as CBS cannot "hold" them due to the station having been already legally separated from them.
You can not hold call letters. Unless transferred immediately to another station under common ownership, they are lost instantly upon taking new calls.
In any case, why would anyone want those calls?
Also, the stations that accidently got a "W" or "K" on the 'wrong-side' of the Mississippi, will lose their oddball call and get a 'conforming' callsign if they opt to change it up, so KDKA can't change without getting a "W" (why would they) or other oddities need to keep what they've got.
Dave Eduardo: Is it true that now LPFM stations can request and get 'real call letters' without using the -LP suffix if they're not used elsewhere, or if the owner of the other non-radio service gives them written permission to use it?
Dave Eduardo: Is it true that now LPFM stations can request and get 'real call letters' without using the -LP suffix if they're not used elsewhere, or if the owner of the other non-radio service gives them written permission to use it?
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K.M. Richards
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Since David (BTW, he hates being called "Dave") is unavailable at the moment, I'll just give you a cut-and-paste from the FCC Rules on the subject (emphasis added):
§ 73.3550 Requests for new or modified call sign assignments.
(f) Only four-letter call signs (plus an LP, FM, TV or CA suffix, if used) will be assigned. The four letter call sign for LPFM stations will be followed by the suffix “-LP.” However, subject to the other provisions of this section, a call sign of a station may be conformed to a commonly owned station holding a three-letter call assignment (plus FM, TV, CA or LP suffixes, if used).
Therefore ... no. The suffix must be used regardless of whether or not the call is shared with another service.
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