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10 AM on 96.9, and...

TRF said:
What a curious notion.
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Not at all. Audience measurement in the top 48 US markets no longer relies on listener recall of call signs, frequencies or even slogans. It's done automatically, without user intervention, on the PPM. Giving the call sign and community of license once an hour, to comply with FCC rules, is all that's required.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
TRF said:
What a curious notion.
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Not at all. Audience measurement in the top 48 US markets no longer relies on listener recall of call signs, frequencies or even slogans. It's done automatically, without user intervention, on the PPM. Giving the call sign and community of license once an hour, to comply with FCC rules, is all that's required.
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And how long before those rules go the way of the amateur radio code requirement, and broadcasting stations merely have to embed some digital marker in their signal to satisfy the Feds?
 
CTListener said:
dumber than a box of hair said:
TRF said:
What a curious notion.
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Not at all. Audience measurement in the top 48 US markets no longer relies on listener recall of call signs, frequencies or even slogans. It's done automatically, without user intervention, on the PPM. Giving the call sign and community of license once an hour, to comply with FCC rules, is all that's required.
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And how long before those rules go the way of the amateur radio code requirement, and broadcasting stations merely have to embed some digital marker in their signal to satisfy the Feds?
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Now that you mention it, that's probably in the cards in the not-too-distant future! With RDS technology, why have a spoken Legal ID, right?
 
wcozBoston said:
Are Canadian stations required to identify themselves the way American ones do with the call sign followed by city of license?
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I believe so, but they didn't used to. i think they used to only have to do it once a day, along with their address and some other info.

For a long time, Edge 102 and Chum FM identified themselves as just that; over the last few years both stations spell out CFNY and C-H-U-M-FM, "Toronto", at the top of the hour, American-style. In the 1990s, CFNY had deliberately moved away from the brand associated with their calls (i.e. The Spirit of Radio, as sung about by Rush), so it's interesting to hear them played up again, even if once an hour.
 
The QSL card that I got from Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia, back in the '70s had OLR on it. That was Radio Prague's call, but you never heard it on the air.

I'd imagine all the BBC local and regional stations as well as the World Service all have callsigns but aren't required to mention them at all.
 
DToTheJ said:
Signpost said:
CTListener said:
WWHT?
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Syracuse.
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The old Channel 68 in New York City bore those calls - Wometco Home Theater, anyone?
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I remember their ads on WPIX -- "WWHT, the Fat TV!" Fat because it was packed with stuff you couldn't get on free TV. Didn't you have get a contraption installed on your set and drop coins into it when you wanted to unscramble the signal?
 
Did WHT compete with HBO at some time? I was very young back then and my memory is cloudy but I do remember it being somewhat popular I remember people had antennas on the roof tops to get WHT.
 
Regarding the studios at WTKK, what will come of all of the talk studio equipment? It must take up a lot more space than a studio for a music orientated station. Does anyone know if the studio for WSJZ survived all of this time and will it be the main studio for Hot 96.9?
 
wcozBoston said:
Regarding the studios at WTKK, what will come of all of the talk studio equipment? It must take up a lot more space than a studio for a music orientated station. Does anyone know if the studio for WSJZ survived all of this time and will it be the main studio for Hot 96.9?
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Yard sale!!!! ;D
 
I'm a bit confused (but sometimes it doesn't take much). I thought the plan was to make a morning show featuring Pebbles and, perhaps, Melissa. If Melissa is doing middays and Pebbles is dong afternoons, what will be morning show be? Or, perhaps, they are just doing middays and afternoons until the morning show is in place. Anyone know anything?
 
Pebbles is slated for mornings, and Melissa for middays. My guess is Pebbles doing a couple of afternoon shifts allows her to get on the air, start promoting the morning show while staying in music intensive mode.
 
commercials have started!
 
so far typical commercials geico,spoken commercials from pebbles and Mellisa,and a lady gaga show
 
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