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Bloomberg 960 now has "paid for by" in hourly ID

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408listener

I've been regularly listening to Bloomberg 960 for about two years now. Only about a week or so ago did their TOTH ID include a notice (paraphrasing): Programming paid for by Bloomberg LP.

FCC regulations have long required stations to disclose if they received compensation for any program. I did not know that Bloomberg bought time on KNEW as part of its LMA.

I'll have to check if the Bloomberg stations in Boston and Washington also have that notice. Their flagship WBBR in NYC doesn't have that notice (presumably because Bloomberg owns that station).
 
Re "what an LMA is": I see. thanks. Perhaps I shoulda typed the term in Wikipedia before posting!

As the top of the 8pm hour was approaching, I opened iHeart's stream of Bloomberg 99.1 in DC. That station also has the paid programming notice after the call letters and city of license: "Programming paid for by Bloomberg."

So to shift the conversation a bit, I wonder if the FCC is more strictly enforcing the paid programming disclosure today. Before this change by Bloomberg 960, Salem's SF stations (860 and 1220) would play "sponsored by XYZ" before the start of their shows (even SJSU football on 860).
 
408listener said:
So to shift the conversation a bit, I wonder if the FCC is more strictly enforcing the paid programming disclosure today. Before this change by Bloomberg 960, Salem's SF stations (860 and 1220) would play "sponsored by XYZ" before the start of their shows (even SJSU football on 860).
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The FCC makes money by fining broadcasters. It's in their best interest to enforce the law. Read this:

www.fcc.gov

Sponsorship Identification Rules

When a broadcast station transmits any matter for which money, service, or other valuable consideration is paid or promised to, or charged or accepted by such station, federal law and FCC rules require the broadcaster to announce, at the time of the broadcast, that such matter is sponsored, paid...
www.fcc.gov www.fcc.gov
 
TheBigA said:
The FCC makes money by fining broadcasters. It's in their best interest to enforce the law. Read this:
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You must read a different FCC budget from the one I read.

The fines assessed by the Enforcement Bureau are paid directly to the U.S..Treasury general fund. They don't stay within the FCC.

The FCC's annual budget appropriation is based on what's paid in from regulatory fees and auction revenues. Fines don't play any direct role.

Cf.

www.fcc.gov

FY 2024 Budget-In-Brief

A brief summary of the Commission's FY 2024 Congressional Budget Justification.
www.fcc.gov www.fcc.gov
 
I think stations are now doing a "CYA" move since whatever station it was out west got a huge fine for making everyone think they were "live 24/7" when for a good chunk of the day they weren't. I now hear "portions of some programs were recorded" on Audacy, ihurt radio and other locally owned/corporate stations.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
I think stations are now doing a "CYA" move since whatever station it was out west got a huge fine for making everyone think they were "live 24/7" when for a good chunk of the day they weren't. I now hear "portions of some programs were recorded" on Audacy, ihurt radio and other locally owned/corporate stations.
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I'd forgotten, but that was taken seriously at every station I worked at in the 70s. Usually all it took was a line like "portions of today's broadcasting were transcribed" in a sign-off, if you did one. 24-hour operations could bury it wherever they liked.

I remember KHJ in the 60s and early 70s having that exact line, read by newsman Art Kevin. They'd drop it into a stopset somewhere in the 2 or 3 a.m. hour and that covered them. KFRC almost certainly had something similar, given RKO's consistency.
 
michael hagerty said:
I'd forgotten, but that was taken seriously at every station I worked at in the 70s. Usually all it took was a line like "portions of today's broadcasting were transcribed" in a sign-off, if you did one. 24-hour operations could bury it wherever they liked.

I remember KHJ in the 60s and early 70s having that exact line, read by newsman Art Kevin. They'd drop it into a stopset somewhere in the 2 or 3 a.m. hour and that covered them. KFRC almost certainly had something similar, given RKO's consistency.
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l used to never hear it but now I do at least once an hour on some stations. Some Audacy stations tend to do it just after top of the hour. Some local stations, have added it to their contest rules disclaimer (Employees of this station, family members up to 5 generations removed, yokels employed by other radio, TV, streaming, smoke signalers, semaphore flag waving companies, people using demon dialers, A.I. , or other non-human are excluded. Don't think "Screw 'em, they'll never find out", we always do and send our swat team of cranky DJs who haven't had a raise in 6 years to recover whatever you won, even if it's a beer coaster.)
 
I was listening to Bloomberg's Boston station this morning, and their hourly ID did not include the "paid for by" notice (perhaps because the ID has to cover FOUR frequencies - two AM, one FM translator, one FM HD2).
 
408listener said:
I was listening to Bloomberg's Boston station this morning, and their hourly ID did not include the "paid for by" notice (perhaps because the ID has to cover FOUR frequencies - two AM, one FM translator, one FM HD2).
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Could be because Bloomberg now owns one of the stations

radioinsight.com

Bloomberg Acquires WNBP Newburyport MA

After leasing 1330 WRCA Watertown/106.1 W291CZ Boston MA from Beasley Media in July, Bloomberg LP is purchasing Port Broadcasting Oldies
radioinsight.com radioinsight.com
 
408listener said:
I was listening to Bloomberg's Boston station this morning, and their hourly ID did not include the "paid for by" notice (perhaps because the ID has to cover FOUR frequencies - two AM, one FM translator, one FM HD2).
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There are five frequencies to hear Bloomberg Radio in the Boston area...


1450 WNBP Newburyport and translator 106.1 W291CC Haverhill (owned by Bloomberg)

1330 WRCA Watertown and translator 106.1 W291CZ Boston (owned by Beasley Broadcasting)

92.9 WBOS-HD2 Boston (owned by Beasley Broadcasting)


But the legal ID only mentions four. I think the Haverhill translator is missing.

It is interesting how someone organized one 106.1 MHz translator in Boston and another in Haverhill near the New Hampshire border. So as you drive down from Boston's northern suburbs, starting either in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, you can listen to 106.1 and probably not realize you've passed from one translator airing Bloomberg Radio to another, on your way to Boston's business and financial district.
 
Gregg. said:
There are five frequencies to hear Bloomberg Radio in the Boston area...


1450 WNBP Newburyport and translator 106.1 W291CC Haverhill (owned by Bloomberg)

1330 WRCA Watertown and translator 106.1 W291CZ Boston (owned by Beasley Broadcasting)

92.9 WBOS-HD2 Boston (owned by Beasley Broadcasting)


But the legal ID only mentions four. I think the Haverhill translator is missing.

It is interesting how someone organized one 106.1 MHz translator in Boston and another in Haverhill near the New Hampshire border. So as you drive down from Boston's northern suburbs, starting either in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, you can listen to 106.1 and probably not realize you've passed from one translator airing Bloomberg Radio to another, on your way to Boston's business and financial district.
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They dont have to aurally mention the translators at all.. and frankly, shouldnt.. its alphabet soup that means nothing to the listener.

FSK ID the darn thing and be done with it. Almost all modern day transmitters have FSK built in
 
radiofan2023 said:
How many stations ID with FSK though?
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Thousands upon thousands of translators. It's standard in most transmitters, and it's how I configure everything I am responsible for. I don't even know the callsigns of most of the translators I've done. If I need to know, I look it up - and I rarely need to know.
 
Weiserguy said:
What triggers an FSK ID? Is it always inserting an ID, sort of like the embedded PPM codes, or is it triggered on a schedule (e.g., at the top of every hour), or by a discrete signal from the control room? Inquiring minds are just a little bit curious.
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I assume just a timer
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I assume just a timer
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Here's the actual text of the rule (74.1283):

By transmitting the call sign in International Morse Code at least once each hour. Transmitters of FM broadcast translator stations of more than 1 watt transmitter output power must be equipped with an automatic keying device that will transmit the call sign at least once each hour, unless there is in effect a firm agreement with the translator's primary station as provided in § 74.1283(c)(1) of this section. Transmission of the call sign can be accomplished by:

(i) Frequency shifting key; the carrier shift shall not be less than 5 kHz nor greater than 25 kHz.

(ii) Amplitude modulation of the FM carrier of at least 30 percent modulation. The audio frequency tone use shall not be within 200 hertz of the Emergency Broadcast System Attention signal alerting frequencies.
 
DaveBayArea said:
Here's the actual text of the rule (74.1283):

By transmitting the call sign in International Morse Code at least once each hour. Transmitters of FM broadcast translator stations of more than 1 watt transmitter output power must be equipped with an automatic keying device that will transmit the call sign at least once each hour, unless there is in effect a firm agreement with the translator's primary station as provided in § 74.1283(c)(1) of this section. Transmission of the call sign can be accomplished by:

(i) Frequency shifting key; the carrier shift shall not be less than 5 kHz nor greater than 25 kHz.

(ii) Amplitude modulation of the FM carrier of at least 30 percent modulation. The audio frequency tone use shall not be within 200 hertz of the Emergency Broadcast System Attention signal alerting frequencies.
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i know that.. and K262AI's primary didnt ID it.

Doesnt say how an FSK ID is triggered
 
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