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How Long?

Is a station allowed to call itself "New" ?

I just thought about this yesterday when I was listening to The New Lite FM (KVIL) in the morning. Do they get to call themselves "New" for 6 months, a year, two years? After awhile, "New" becomes "Old", doesn't it?
 
Hell Mix 102.9 was calling itself "New" for what, 8 years? Maybe more?

I agree, calling yourself "New" should be limited to say the first month or so.

Unfortunately we're dealing with corporate radio, which is often lacking in the common sense department.
 
To paraphrase a quote from Bill Clinton: "It depends on what your definition of the word "new" is"

The New Lite FM might refer to the new music they play. They might change the lights every week in the control room so they have a "new lite" all the time. The "New" Mix 102.9 is much easier to defend since technically I'm sure their playlist is not the exact same songs in the same order (or mix) each day. Perhaps KVIL is applying the same theory to their playlist too so that each day it's a "new" Lite FM because the music and the order it was played in the day before is not the same.
 
Well in that case, shouldn't it be, "The New Music Mix 102.9"?

The way Mix uses "The New", implies that the station itself is new.
 
radionosey said:
Maybe that's the way they registered there name (the new mix 102.9) with the FCC?

No such registration with the FCC is required. Even if it was, that'd be real easy to change.

In layman's terms, The FCC assigns each station a facility number, sort of like the address of where you live or work.
 
I think it is false advertising.

I also think somewhere along the way, my civil rights have been violated by this and I should sue.

;D
 
JayDavis said:
I also think somewhere along the way, my civil rights have been violated by this and I should sue.

;D

Let us know if you win, so we can all do the same. ;) ;D
 
You're new until you change formats... Then you're new again. ;)
 
"NEW" has been abused and misused by radio stations since the late 90's. Its almost as bad as watching a 10pm newscast during sweeps and they tell yo ua certain story is "Next" when actually it has 3 stories ahead of it and a commercial break. "Corporate broadcasting defying common sense since 1996."
 
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