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Do any one still sign off
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Do shared-time stations count? KWLC and KDEC share 1240 kHz in Decorah, Iowa.
They are now sharing a transmitter site, though. KDEC gave up its site.
Want to hear what it used to sound like when they had separate sites? https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/1lafx5ip1ovwlbm/KDEC-KWLC-Handoff.2013.09.03-2200.mp3/file
I believe KVSH signs off every night at 10PM.
I havenāt heard them sign off yet nor its sign off is ever uploaded on YT.
Thereās other ones too
WFDU-WNYU 89.1
KOOP-KVRX 91.7 FM
WPOB-WKWZ 88.5 FM
WXUT-WXTS
KTUP-KMWV
Oh yes they do
It's been awhile, so I could be wrong. It's happened before š
Maybe it's an adjacent topic, maybe it's related...
What would happen if an FM (or, I suppose an AM) but in any event, neither station had any type of aux facility capability. Are they required to do a full-blown sign-off, or would an abbreviated variation be acceptable?
"KKWW-FM will be leaving the air to perform maintenance. We expect to resume our regular broadcast schedule on or before 2AM. Again, this is KKWW-FM leaving the air to perform maintenance."
::dump carrier::
What would happen if an FM (or, I suppose an AM) but in any event, neither station had any type of aux facility capability. Are they required to do a full-blown sign-off, or would an abbreviated variation be acceptable?
"KKWW-FM will be leaving the air to perform maintenance. We expect to resume our regular broadcast schedule on or before 2AM. Again, this is KKWW-FM leaving the air to perform maintenance."
::dump carrier::
Most I hear just cut the carrier in the middle of a web stream or translator broadcast. Oh and I believe the station ID must be done in English!
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I donāt believe the legal ID has to be in English anymore. There are tons of Spanish language stations that give the legal ID using Spanish pronunciation.
Iād imagine, since the US has no āofficialā language, any legal ID could be pronounced in any dialect, so long as the same letters are used with the city of license behind.
Not only that, but since 1922 stations in Puerto Rico, USA have IDed in Spanish.
It's only recently that Spanish language stations in the Continental U.S. have started doing ID's in Spanish. Few did ID's in Spanish even 10 to 12 years ago, in fact.
No, as seattlesarchiebunker has said, the ID of many Spanish language stations is now given in Spanish... and as I mentioned, all the stations in Puerto Rico (130 without counting translators and LPFMs) except for the three that broadcast in English do IDs in Spanish. Totally legal and has been for 102 years.
Okay not up on my current rules but I don't believe it was 102 years ago!
A good friend of mine worked at WLTO Miami and I heard other Spanish formatted stations ID in English.
Ever since WKAQ's predecessor signed on in 1922, Puerto Rican stations have ID'ed in Spanish... except, as I mentioned, for a few stations that broadcast in English for the limited number of "continentals" who still live there.
There was a mistaken belief that the ID had to be in English in the 50 states. But in the last decade or so, stations realized that there was no language requirement in the rules and started doing the ID in Spanish.
@seattlesarchiebunker
We have an ID we use every now and then recorded in Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan that says a few words in the native language (i forget the exact wording off hand) and ID's us as "KSKO Tochak"
I wonder how Spanish-language KVVZ pronounces "San Rafael", its Bay Area city of license.
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