Canton Radio

[freed]

Some Notes from the Ohio Media Watch site that Brice Lewis is reported to start this Saturday at My 101.7: "WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHBC: A long-time voice recently departed from the halls at Market Street South has landed across town. Or is that "up I-77"?

Clear Channel AC WHOF/101.7 "my 101.7" has hired Brice Lewis for weekends. Lewis was the veteran afternoon drive host on AM 1480, until he was let go last week to make way for the station's move from oldies to talk."

And from their site:

http://my1017.com/pages/Bricelewis.html

Ironically I was mentioning on a first time meeting with a certain My 101.7 personality this past weekend about Brice's departure from WHBC and now he is aboard WHOF so this just I feel was a small coincidence. Good luck to everyone and glad for all involved!

On another note what is all this?: http://www.whbc830am.com/about.htm

Low power, pirate radio or not, since when do two existing stations in two separate markets have the same call letters?? It's one thing when a station picks up a defunct station's calls like this: http://www.lite975.com/

But WHBC is supposed to go all talk and this here WHBC in Washington DC at 830 am has the WHBC call letters as does 1480 in Canton. Someone explain. Two different cities both existing stations two different owners and the same call letters? Is this legal? It says it has a parent station and it is a student station so again it is very low power and maybe it is legal so correct me if I am jumping the gun. I have a tendency to do that and maybe having the WHBC calls being that it is student run is legal in this case. It reaches only a small number of people.

 

[david5258]

while it is rare for there to be the same calls in different communities, it does happen. case in point--
woneam980 in dayton, ohio owned by cox? and wone 97.5fm akron oh owned by rubbercityradiogroup--
was not aware of another whbc anywhere else other than 1480 and 94.1fm in canton, ohio--david5258

 

[Johnny Morgan]

Re: WHBC Canton and WHBC Wash DC.

WHBC/WHBC-FM are the only FCC licensed stations. WHBC "830am/Channel 51" is a student campus TV channel radio station (and, guessing from the 830am, once a carrier current station). Since Howard Univ.'s WHBC isn't "broadcasting" but is merely using the campus TV cable to transmit its signal, there's no problem. It's like your Local High School saying its morning announcements over "WLHS"--it's an air of officiousness to appease the naive students.

Also, re: WONE.

WONE and WONE-FM are SEPARATE call signs, according to the FCC. They once had the same owner, hence the reason for the call sign use in separate communities. But it's not the "same" call sigh, as that "-FM" is a separate call according to the FCC.

Now, what you have to watch out for is folks who add the "-FM" where it isn't needed, e.g., "WMMS-FM". It's just WMMS.

It's also incorrect to use "WHK-AM"--the call sign is "WHK". The FCC let's such mundane technicalities slide on air.

(n.b., WONE Dayton's sister FM station was WTUE, so the FMs owned by--I forget the company now--were (W)ONE and (W)TUE (two).)

 

[gr8oldies]

Dayton's WONE and WONE-FM (later to become WTUE)as well as Akron's WONE-FM were owned by Group One. WONE/WTUE are now owned by Clear Channel.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

I do believe the AM/FM/TV situation still requires the incumbent or "base" call holder to give permission.

For example, I'm pretty sure - if the timing was right - that that LPTV station in Florida had to get permission from Clear Channel to use "WTAM-LP".

If the incumbent station is an FM, and doesn't hold the base "(AM)" call, I'm pretty sure an AM would still have to get permission.

A certain proprietor of a certain site carrying legal ID recordings may clarify this, if he's around the Cleveland board.

And a certain Mr. Morgan is correct - "WHBC", the Howard University version, is a non-licensed broadcast outlet, so they can use the calls. I'm trying to remember off the top of my head, but can't - there's another similar situation, where a Northeast Ohio call set is being used by a closed-circuit non-radio operator somewhere else. Howard University, of course, owns popular commercial outlet WHUR in DC.

The Brice Lewis thing was a smart pickup for Mr. Kennedy and company at 101.7, and pretty easy, since he's doing a weekend shift or two.

Re: 1480 - expect talk in full April 2nd, though Brady Russell is already doing his show in PMD. Dennis Miller starts on the 2nd, and I'm pretty sure Mr. Ponder's mid-morning show will also start then, though I haven't verified that.

 

[gr8oldies]

When the station that was historically WNAP in Indianapolis wanted the WNAP call letters back, they did have to get permission (and most likely pay a few bucks) from the AM that had the calls in pennsylvania to become "WNAP-FM". The Indys station is now WNOU.

 

[SonoSational18]

Actually, then WWWE owner Secret Communications paid the LPTV station in Tampa, WTAM to change calls to WTAM-LP and allow the Cleveland station to use the WTAM call letters.

Different versions of call letters in different cities is no longer rare. When it first started if you wanted to use the same base calls in a seperate market you had to be co-owned. Among some of the earlier examples were Group One's WONE(AM) Dayton and WONE-FM Akron and CBS's KCBS(AM) San Francisco/KCBS-FM LA/KCBS-TV LA. Now the stations don't have to be co-owned (although many are). You need to get the permission of the first holder of the call letters. This could be granted as an intra company agreement, a provision of sale, or by offering cash or other compensation.

As for the "WHBC" in Washington.... that is either a closed circuit or carrier-current station which is not regulated by the FCC. Presumably, the "real" WHBC might have some legal action against them for trademark infringement, but as a practical matter, these college stations generally adopt whatever call letters they want and the whole thing flies under the radar.