How much do lawyers generally charge for a change in call letters? I assume the lawyers are necessary to make sure the three or four letters can only be used for marketing, advertising, etc. by the radio station that's registered them. If not, what's to prevent a station from doing the research on the availability of the call itself, then applying to the FCC by itself and pocketing the money that would have gone to the legal eagles?
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Phoenix had KOOL, and Tucson had KOLD. I think at one time the 2 TV stations were co-owned.
I'm willing to bet that branding had a different connotation in Phoenix
Are you tired of 120 degree summers and need to cool down? Tune into the very KOOL 960 (and eventually 94.5). Speaking of KOOL 960, when they were Country for a brief period in the early 80's, they were K-960 with a dog as a mascot "Canine-sixty". Woof woof!
That's not the way major market operators work... they want to be sure there are no issues not revealed in doing a simple filing... such as checking state and local copyrights and brand registrations and the like.
Back in the 70's, a full review might have generated a bill for around $1,000. To the Libermans, that was too much to "waste".
I saw one of the three brothers call an employee to move the heavy soft drink machine away from the wall because he had dropped a quarter which fell under it.
I don't know, but I filled out the ownership report one year at a particularly broke radio station.
This goes back at least 40 years ago, a station, I believe it was in Illinois, had the call letters WSEX. As a Top 40, the innuendos ran rampant, with some very risque liners.
I think that was Darrell Peter's suburban Milwaukee station...
Darrell managed WLOO in Chicago and did the FM100 Plan syndication.
...as I mentioned back in November:
In fact, the Tucson call letters were changed from the original KOPO-TV to KOLD in 1957 when Gene Autry and his partners (who put KOPO on the air in ‘52) bought KOOL.
It was a lot simpler: "It's KOOL in Phoenix" and "It's KOLD in Tucson."I'm willing to bet that branding had a different connotation in Phoenix
Weren't they using the calls KARZ at the time?
Yes, that's correct, it was that Country / MOR hybrid with a lot of John Denver and Olivia Newton John. They even hired Alan Chilcoate who left KOY, to do mornings. it was a big failure. They got back the KOOL call letters, and flipped to MOR/ Adult Standards by 1983.
Which is true in a sense, during summer Tucson's average high temperature is lower than Phoenix.
PUNK COUNTRY!? God, would I love to hear that! I can't even imagine what that sounded like 😆
KilowattKat: An inside industry joke that is now shared with the world via YouTube:
Yes! I've heard references to it over the years, the last one was when I overheard someone comparing the "old man" station owner to Saul Levine. And K-9 kid power radio is ALWAYS referenced somewhere on this board. Thanks for sharing that, first time actually listening to it.
Down the road about 90 miles- San Francisco.
In Sacramento it was TV40 with a pretty rainbow and no animals.
Some interesting radio brandings:
Rock FM in Lancashire, England - Initially named since then-new 97.4 was targeting Blackpool primarily (Blackpool is famous for the Coronation Rock candy, etc.), though the studios ultimately remained in Preston from 1990 to 2020. And yes, it is a pop station, not a rock station of any kind.
SLAM! in the Netherlands - Formerly named SLAM! FM, this station carries a Dance-leaning Rhythmic Top 40 format. The name was conceived from a local "dance & lifestyle magazine, aptly named Slam.
Rock FM in Lancashire, England - Initially named since then-new 97.4 was targeting Blackpool primarily (Blackpool is famous for the Coronation Rock candy, etc.), though the studios ultimately remained in Preston from 1990 to 2020. And yes, it is a pop station, not a rock station of any kind.
SLAM! in the Netherlands - Formerly named SLAM! FM, this station carries a Dance-leaning Rhythmic Top 40 format. The name was conceived from a local "dance & lifestyle magazine, aptly named Slam.
If you phoned either station back in the day they'd answer: "It's KOOL in Phoenix and KOLD in Tucson".
The obvious reason, to us AZ natives, was a reference to the relative temperatures in both cities (Tucson, at a higher altitude is generally a few degrees cooler than Phoenix). However:
The 'OLD' in KOLD also stands for the "Old Pueblo" - Tucson's nickname.
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