98.5 using WBZ-FM legal ID

[magnadan]

I heard it last night.

 

[raccoonradio]

This has been known to happen; starting to use new calls but perhaps they say them quick or whisper them till the big rollout OR a station will change their image/format but keep the old calls so they try to minimize the effect of
the old ones until the FCC gives its okay.

btw I remember one case where 93.7 was changing its format (from Star to Mike, or was it from Eagle to Star?)
and I heard something where "WTSA!" was said quickly. I thought, hmm, the new calls? But those are in
Brattleboro VT. Turned out it was an ad for The Sports Authority which used some kind of radio station as a
springboard...the actual calls turned out to be different and minutes later we got the new format and actual calls.

 

[magnadan]

There's no whispering. They're proud of them.

Something like, "WBZ-FM and WBZ-FM HD1, seven days until the move! Mix 98.5" then into a song.

 

[raccoonradio]

Ah, okay. I do know I tuned in once just after the news was announced and there was a DJ saying something like
"you should re-set your pre-set" to the new freq of WBMX-FM.

 

[raccoonradio]

heard them do that legal ID at 10, indeed, and in the category of "why they picked Aug 13 to debut Sports
Hub", I saw a section in the Herald with the various betting lines, etc of football pre-season games and
Thu 8/13 is indeed when the Pats have their first pre-season game. (NFL pre-season kicks off Sun with
hall of fame game from Ohio then there are a bunch of games a wk from today)

 

[Deleted User]

Any station can pretty much image itself with any non issued calls it wants but when it comes time for a legal id (within 5 mins of the top of the hour, at the end of a program, etc) the only thing that's legal is what is on the license.

They can whisper it, say it in under 1 second, doesn't matter, but until the FCC Daily Digest tells me the application has been approved (and I stopped reading it so I don't even know if the application has been filed) I think the only LEGAL ID Would be something like "WBMX FM WBMX HD 1 Boston". Where there is a WBMX AM they must say the FM in the ID. After that they can call themselves an

Has anyone seen the application filed or acted upon?

Radio-Locator is showing the WBZ FM calls on 98.5.... off to the FCC database to see what's up

 

[rockcaptain]

Yes, the FCC website shows WBZ-FM on 98.5....WBMX is no more.

 

[rockcaptain]

WBMX is now on AM 1660 in Charlotte.

 

[Deleted User]

it's there now, you can't do a 3 way call swap, so will they will move WBCN down there to NC, and bring the WBMX calls back north?

 

[raccoonradio]

WBMX is there on the AM station in NC now, but come next week it will be moved to 104.1 here and WBCN
goes to the AM down there.

 

[Channel Surf]

When the old WBZ-FM was sold in 1981, the WMJX call letters appeared on 106.7, six months before the flip to Magic 106.7. 106.7 began to ID as WMJX in July, 1981, and continued to program rock until Magic 106.7 debuted in January, 1982.

 

[Don Juan]

When the old WBZ-FM was sold in 1981, the WMJX call letters appeared on 106.7, six months before the flip to Magic 106.7. 106.7 began to ID as WMJX in July, 1981, and continued to program rock until Magic 106.7 debuted in January, 1982.

I believe by the time the "MJX" letters were assigned, 106.7 was off the air.

When Gr Media acquired 106.7, they immediately shut it down, (as was a habit of theirs when acquiring stations) while they refurbished the transmitter site/tower, etc.

While they may have been assigned earlier, the new letter did not hit the air until Magic 106.7 began programming and transmitting in January of 1982.

 

[magnadan]

Yes.com shows 98.5 listed as WBZ-FM. It won't accept WBMX. I would have thought that since WBMX is only temporarily gone and that the average listener may not even notice that they are now WBZ, they would have left it alone. WBMX will be back Wednesday anyway.