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Harry Hurley Back to TownSquare on 1450 am

Did anyone there check first before releasing this? The FCC hasn't granted a 3 letter Call Sign since April 4 1922!. That's when they ran out of 200 W & K combinations, and began with WAAB for Baton Rouge LA.

The exceptions are grandfathered 70+ year old AM licences who want to preserve their Calls for FM or TV with a suffix. This was established post WWII with WRC-TV in Washington, DC. The FCC agreed that they could not have a 3 letter Call Sign. The Station attorneys argued that, with the mandated suffix, WRC-TV was in fact, a FIVE letter Call, and there were no rules established against THAT. The FCC agreed, and the 3 letter migration was firmly established for grandfathered AM's to new FM's and TV's. But to put a 3 letter Call on today...don't think so. http://earlyradiohistory.us/recap.htm#four

Remember, KYW goes back MUCH further than 1965. It began in Chicago in 1921, then moved to Philly on 1020, then Cleveland, then back to Philly on 1060, supplanting WRCV. That's the only reason it survived with 3 letters, and a "K" call. WIP got to preserve it's heritage calls on 94.1 recently because it is technically a 5 letter Call Sign, WIP-FM.

Anything on AM is considered "Standard Broadcast". It has no such suffux. No WPG-AM. Unless they changed rules I missed.
 
Inputting some likely four-letter alternatives into the FCC's call sign query system...hey, look what I found: "A request for WPGG dated 10/01/2012 has been filed by TOWNSQUARE MEDIA ATLANTIC CITY LICENSE, LLC."
 
It is not US your screwed up there, the newspaper did not check their facts...besides what's one letter in the calls amoungst friends. They are probably going to to use the calls WPG for nostalgia sake right?
 
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It is not US your screwed up there, the newspaper did not check their facts...besides what's one letter in the calls amoungst friends. They are probably going to to use the calls WPG for nostalgia sake right?
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Diary market...call yourself whatever you like, just make sure to let Arbitron know so you get the credit :)
 
Then there was that ethnic station in L.A. that was granted the right to go from KKHJ to KHJ since saying the letter "K" two times in a row translated into "shut the front door" or something rather...
 
The last 3-letter call to be issued in the original era was WIS in 1930 although the University of Texas was able to get KUT-FM for their new F.M. in 1958. Also, I think it was Westinghouse who was able to get WJZ-TV for their Baltimore TV station when what we now know was WABC dropped it. Keep in mind, UT owned the original KUT until, I think, 1932 & Westinghouse owned WJZ. Those were other exceptions. If you search 3-letter calls, there's a website dedicated to that. So, maybe Townsquare COULD ask the F.C.C. for an exception to the rules if WENJ is in fact the original WPG & it wasn't reassigned.
 
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The last 3-letter call to be issued in the original era was WIS in 1930 although the University of Texas was able to get KUT-FM for their new F.M. in 1958. Also, I think it was Westinghouse who was able to get WJZ-TV for their Baltimore TV station when what we now know was WABC dropped it. Keep in mind, UT owned the original KUT until, I think, 1932 & Westinghouse owned WJZ. Those were other exceptions. If you search 3-letter calls, there's a website dedicated to that. So, maybe Townsquare COULD ask the F.C.C. for an exception to the rules if WENJ is in fact the original WPG & it wasn't reassigned.
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The original WPG shared time on its frequency with some New York stations and eventually was bought out by one of them. Its successor is either WBBR or WADO, depending on how a call letter swap/frequency change should be interpreted. 1450 has no direct connection to the original WPG, so the FCC is unlikely to waive its policy in this case.
 
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