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Comical legal station IDs

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vchimpanzee

Instead of rushing through the call letters and city of license, some stations make a joke out of it.

For example (this is not an exact quote) "You know we are 104.9 Bob FM, but for that one guy at the FCC streaming the station, this is WYNA Calabash."
 
During its days as a beautiful music/easy listening station, KBEZ 92.9 in Tulsa would do news every hour at :55. The forecast would run at the very end of the news, and the jingle was “KBEZ Tulsa Weather.”

It may not be comical, per se, but, for someone who was just getting interested in radio, it was quite creative and somewhat funny to think the easy listening station was burying the legal ID in the weather jingle while the top-40 stations would speed read it in the TOH jingle or the :50 stopset.
 
One of the incarnations of 92.5 in Cincinnati changed format, but the new calls hadn't been approved. The ID was "this is NOT W??? Cincinnati. This is Cincinnati's new (whatever it was).
 
Back in the late '70s.....WLEV in Easton, PA was running Drake-Chennault "Hit Parade".....
The top-hour legal ID was : WLEV and WLEV-FM, Easton.....WLEV....W - LE-high-Valley!"
 
gr8oldies said:
One of the incarnations of 92.5 in Cincinnati changed format, but the new calls hadn't been approved. The ID was "this is NOT W??? Cincinnati. This is Cincinnati's new (whatever it was).
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To be legal, the city of license would have to follow the new call, so you probably misremembered the "Cincinnati's new" part.
 
WRMF, Palm Beach, Broward, Dade.
Palm Beach is their COL,
but Palm Beach is also one of the three counties listed.
 
When I worked in Central Florida in 2005, I'd hide the legal id in the current temperatures at the end of the weather........... traffic came first, then I'd do weather and end it with, "and that's your Brevard County traffic and weather together.... It's currently 84 in Melbourne, 81 in Titusville and your current WTIR Cocoa Beach temperature is 80 degrees"
 
gr8oldies said:
No, the old call was still in effect, so they were doing the legal ID as "This is NOT" even though it legally was.
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My mistake, then. I thought you meant they were saying they weren't "W???" anymore but, rather, were now "Cincinnati's new W###." But if they kept the same call letters, then yes, the ID was legal.
 
During my brief time in Indiana, WVAE 94.9 in Cincinnati ditched smooth jazz for jammin' oldies “Mojo 94.9,” and it legaled as, “This used to be WVAE Fairfield/Cincinnati. Now, it’s Mojo 94.9.”

In the summer of '96, KEBC (Keep Every Body Country) dropped its longtime country format for modern rock and did the same thing. “This used to be KEBC Oklahoma City. Now, it’s 95X.”

Different owners. Same idea.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
When I worked in Central Florida in 2005, I'd hide the legal id in the current temperatures at the end of the weather........... traffic came first, then I'd do weather and end it with, "and that's your Brevard County traffic and weather together.... It's currently 84 in Melbourne, 81 in Titusville and your current WTIR Cocoa Beach temperature is 80 degrees"
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In the early '90's when living in South Florida, I always loved WLYF's live read station IDs that were mixed into the weather

"It's 86 in Pompano Beach, 84 in Fort Lauderdale, and 88 at WLYF Miami...I'm xxxxx, thanks for turning on the Lite!" Cue Lite FM jingle, then song.

Slicker than snail snot!
 
How about stations which used their city of license as their station name? Years ago there was WHTF "Starview 92.7" licensed to Starview, PA but serving Harrisburg. That made legal IDs easy.
 
How about this one. "This is KXXX, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose. Practice Safe X."
I think they are something else these days.
 
Z100 in New York is actually licensed to Newark, NJ. They still hide the ID, I'm sure, but they did a really great job when they first went on the air.

"From the top-top-top of the Empire State Building, this is WHTZ, Newark, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut's hot rockin' Z-100." The "Newark was slurred so bad, it sound like "new york" was said twice!
 
I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly but I seem to recall a rebellious rock station saying, "The federal government expects us to tell you this is …" It's possible they said they didn't care what the government though but they had already done what was expected.
 
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