On my way home tonight my radio displayed WAFO-FM in the place where WODS-FM would usually display. Has CBS finally changed the call letters from WODS?
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Has 103.3 AMP Radio changed it's call letters?
- Thread starter radiofool89
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Haven't seen anything about it online; I tuned in
and they ID-ed as WODS at 9:04 pm
and they ID-ed as WODS at 9:04 pm
No, They have the WODS jingles on the HDD-2 channel and HD3 christmas channel so I dont think so and FCC data base has nothing.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...d/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=9639&Callsign=WODS
According to the FCC, the WAFO calls aren't available thanks to "The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau".
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/query.hts?Form_Level=callsign&Call_Sign=WAFO
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/query.hts?Form_Level=callsign&Call_Sign=WAFO
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Nick said:
Sorry, My Bad......103.3 is The COVE. "Love Songs".Im not paying paying attention.I know people were talking about Christmas music on 1033 in or around mid January or something.
As for the calls.As of right now They are not going anywhere because of the HD-2 channel sticking with the classic hits format.
I've heard from people at CBS that they're satisfied. It hasn't even been a year and they've taken some share away from Kiss. I think they're happier with the demos. The cluster now has 2 stations that skew female, which adds balance to the male-powerhouse stations WZLX and WBZ-FM as well as WBZ. The station is doing it's job.
Although they won't outwardly say it, I don't think anyone's expecting this station to be #1 in all of its target demos, or to destroy Kiss. It doesn't need to. It's unrealistic to expect it to. Not every station can be #1. WODS can run mid-pack and make money.
Although they won't outwardly say it, I don't think anyone's expecting this station to be #1 in all of its target demos, or to destroy Kiss. It doesn't need to. It's unrealistic to expect it to. Not every station can be #1. WODS can run mid-pack and make money.
kenwood101 said:
Do you really think that matters? Again, only old-timers and radio geeks care about call letters in this millennium. Deal with it. As time goes on, more and more stations will be known by slogans, nicknames and other positioners, as has been the case in the rest of the world for a long time. And before the tea party loonies start jumping on me as a socialist, not-born-here, traitorous one-worlder, I'd like to know just how call letters (a) enhance the station's on-air product, (b) increase its audience or (c) attract advertisers. Thanks to PPM, they're not even needed to (d) make sure the listeners' write down the correct station in their diaries.
I only said that because WODS is sung every ten minutes on the HD2CTListener said:
well wbcn is on 98.5 hd2 so call letter don't matter in this case.
kenwood101 said:
Easy enough to dump a jingle package. They could just plug in a few old "Oldies 103.3" jingles to give it that retro sound, and re-record the legal ID with the new call to play once an hour. I'm just not buying the premise that CBS is refusing to change AMP's call letters because its HD2 is still using WODS in its jingles. It's more likely that CBS doesn't care what the call letters of 103.3's main signal are because it's being marketed as AMP, with the WODS call a top-of-the-hour afterthought, and there are no more paper diaries out there for ordinary folks to write "AMP" or even "WAMP" in instead of the actual call. Why go through the trouble of changing a call if you're not marketing call letters?
CTListener said:
They won't want to bring back the "Oldies" moniker even on the HD2. Along with the '70s and still some mid/late '60s warhorses, it's now playing a lot of '80s and maybe even some early '90s music. That era and its audience doesn't identify with the music they grew up with as being called "oldies". "Classic Hits" maybe, but not "oldies".
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No if they have not changed the calls by now they will NOT it is still WODS FM by callsign the music has just skipped a couple of decades... AMP Radio 103.3FM (WODS) is just a call sign only radio geeks like us use to identify the station. WODS/Amp Radio call it a day no need to change... Hey maybe one day WODS will come back as classic hits you never know... But at this point not likely. Leave it as is.
well i think is cbs feels its a good idea they will do it. How long did wxrk last on 92.3 after the change to now?? quite a while so you never know.
robotique said:
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, among other things, maintains the FCC's call sign database for all radio services in which call signs are used, including broadcast. The WAFO calls aren't available because another licensee has them.
dumber than a box of hair said:
And there are still a bunch of ships out there with Wxxx callsigns that broadcast stations cannot duplicate, right?
CTListener said:
AFAIK, yes, and some Kxxx call signs too. (Supposedly KDKA's call came out of the batch reserved for ships during a brief period in which the FRC assigned broadcast call signs from that pool.)
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