Can they say that on the radio?

[Watt]

The question is, though, why would a small, one-location cupcake shop advertise (with their commercials in English on a predominantly Spanish-content station) on WKOX?

I'm guessing the spots are dirt cheap, or that it was a trade deal.

That being said, I'm sure the station delivers a small but highly targeted audience, just not for Kickass Cupcakes.

 

[raccoonradio]

Two examples of TV censorship:
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM: Cronauer (Robin Williams) once tells a colleague, "You're in more need of a blow
job that anyone I know". They substituted "real" for "blow"

RAIN MAN: Raymond (Dustin Hoffman): "UH oh! Fart."
Charlie (Tom Cruise): "Did you fart, Raymond?"
Raymond: "Yeah..."
On network TV: "UH oh! Broke wind."

BUT:
Non TV censorship: The complete word "bulls--t" was allowed during a CBS presentation of
"Network". The network premiere wound up getting beaten in the ratings, however by
an episode of NBC's "BJ and The Bear", a series about a truck driver and his pet monkey.]

Dangers of live TV: Well before the Super Bowl's "Wardrobe Malfunction", Saturday Night Live
did a spoof of the "Who Shot JR?" controversy on "Dallas". "...And I'd like to know who the
f--- did it", said cast member Charles Rocket as the show ended. Many repercussions/firings.
The same show once had a sketch where Paul Shaffer (pre-David Letterman) was playing a
medieval musician or something who kept using "floggin'" as a modifier ("you can't play the
floggin' song that way!") but once he accidentally said "f---in'"...

 

[Laurence Glavin]

The new Harper's magazine for September is out; it has a feature called the Harper's Index(tm), fun facts of no particular importance, unless you want to attach importance to any of them. One of the pieces of information in the current issue (pg 15): in North Carolina, last year about 8,000 residents applied for license plates that included the letters 'WTF'.

 

[DanStrassberg]

The new Harper's magazine for September is out; it has a feature called the Harper's Index(tm), fun facts of no particular importance, unless you want to attach importance to any of them. One of the pieces of information in the current issue (pg 15): in North Carolina, last year about 8,000 residents applied for license plates that included the letters 'WTF'.

OTOH, I could not find any US AM, FM, or TV stations with the calls WTFK or KWTF but I did find WTFX on AM and FM (WTFX (AM) and WTFX-FM do not appear to be related) and I also found a WTFH (FM) and, of course, WTFM (FM), although not the famous one in, IIRC, Lake Success NY).

 

[Eli Polonsky]

The question is, though, why would a small, one-location cupcake shop advertise (with their commercials in English on a predominantly Spanish-content station) on WKOX?

Also simulcast on WXKS-AM 1430, and the store's Somerville location is one of the areas (along with nearby Medford) where 1430 comes in well day and night.

(Especially in HD ;D )

 

[neialive]

The new Harper's magazine for September is out; it has a feature called the Harper's Index(tm), fun facts of no particular importance, unless you want to attach importance to any of them. One of the pieces of information in the current issue (pg 15): in North Carolina, last year about 8,000 residents applied for license plates that included the letters 'WTF'.

OTOH, I could not find any US AM, FM, or TV stations with the calls WTFK or KWTF but I did find WTFX on AM and FM (WTFX (AM) and WTFX-FM do not appear to be related) and I also found a WTFH (FM) and, of course, WTFM (FM), although not the famous one in, IIRC, Lake Success NY).

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

 

[DanStrassberg]

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

About 40 years ago, a (then) co-worker told me that a personal friend of his had been granted those very same call letters for a then-new AM in Weiser ID. (I've also been told that Weiser is pronounced Weezer out there.) In any event, before the station could get on the air with the questionable calls, the FCC caught its own error and withdrew the authorization for the call sign. The owner (my co-worker's friend) then had to select new calls. He chose KART. As far as I can tell, only one station, a Class D AM (on 1260 with 10 kW-D/60W-N) is licensed to Weiser and its calls are KWEI. I believe the station has had those calls for a long, long time. So if my co-worker's story was true (can't check; I believe my co-worker is long since deceased), the KART calls didn't last for too long.

 

[DanStrassberg]

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

You don't suppose the Colorado FM IDs as "FM 100.5 K___ El Jebel--And DON'T spell it backwards!"? I guess that might be playing with fire. But since the FCC appears to maintain a strict hands-off policy on call-letter assignments, maybe not.

 

[GovtMule1979]

Dan...
Why would you sit around and listen to a little Spanish station if you dont sepak spanish in the first place? Second, since when is ''ass'' a bad word? It is an animal or a part of the human body. If you say "we had a kick ass time at the Allman Brothers show last night" I would not think you just cursed at me.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Dan...
Why would you sit around and listen to a little Spanish station if you dont sepak spanish in the first place?

Go back and read the post with which I started the thread. I answered your question in the very first sentence. The very first sentence of the very first post in this thread.

 

[GovtMule1979]

Oooh I read it, and I still have the same question. Why does anyone care so much about a little tower site? Is it work related, or just a strange way to waste time?

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Oooh I read it, and I still have the same question. Why does anyone care so much about a little tower site? Is it work related, or just a strange way to waste time?

Some of us on this board are radio geeks. We may be interested in signals, transmitters, towers and reception of stations even if we may not be interested in a particular stations programming.

Why would you sit around and listen to a little Spanish station if you dont sepak spanish in the first place?

You don't have to speak Spanish to enjoy listening to Spanish music. I don't speak Spanish, but I happen to like some Spanish/Latin music. Especially Jose Masso's "Con Salsa" show late Saturday nights on WBUR. Some great jazzy stuff there.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Oooh I read it, and I still have the same question. Why does anyone care so much about a little tower site? Is it work related, or just a strange way to waste time?

It's hardly a "little tower site." It's one of the most complex AM projects ever! A triplex of three high-power full-time AMs with power totaling 95 kW and using a total of five towers. From a technical standpoint, this is a HUGE deal. And it has been almost 20 years in the making since Fairbanks (former owner of WKOX) bought and took dark co-channel WNSW Brewer ME to enable increasing WKOX's power to 50 kW. Between all of the failed attempts to find a new site for WKOX--I've lost count of all of the proposed locations that were ultimately rejected for a variety of reasons--and capped off by the nearly decade-long battle with the NIMBY Newton neighbors and the Newton Zoning Board, which wound up being resolved by the Massachusetts Land Court, this is, as I said, a project of great (and historic) importance. It's the sort of story about which a book could be and probably should be written. Radio geeks would, of course, snap it up but I think that a lot of people who aren't radio geeks would also find it compelling reading.