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Is Hot 104 Changing Their Calls?

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TheBigTymer

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I was just listening to a suburban New Orleans station, and they ID'd their calls as WYOK. Yes, I said WYOK. That's what I heard, unless my ears were playing a sick joke on me.

However, according to the FCC, the WYOK calls still belong to Hot 104. Are they changing their calls soon?

Note I did not mention any format change. For all I know, they could be changing their calls to something closer to 'Hot 104'.

Either that, or this suburban New Orleans station made a mistake.<P ID="signature">______________

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> I was just listening to a suburban New Orleans station, and
> they ID'd their calls as WYOK. Yes, I said WYOK. That's what
> I heard, unless my ears were playing a sick joke on me.
>
> However, according to the FCC, the WYOK calls still belong
> to Hot 104. Are they changing their calls soon?
>
> Note I did not mention any format change. For all I know,
> they could be changing their calls to something closer to
> 'Hot 104'.
>
> Either that, or this suburban New Orleans station made a
> mistake.
>

What station was this? Are you sure you weren't actually DX'ing Hot 104? Or WYNK 101.5 in Baton Rouge?
 
> > I was just listening to a suburban New Orleans station,
> and
> > they ID'd their calls as WYOK. Yes, I said WYOK. That's
> what
> > I heard, unless my ears were playing a sick joke on me.
> >
> > However, according to the FCC, the WYOK calls still belong
>
> > to Hot 104. Are they changing their calls soon?
> >
> > Note I did not mention any format change. For all I know,
> > they could be changing their calls to something closer to
> > 'Hot 104'.
> >
> > Either that, or this suburban New Orleans station made a
> > mistake.
> >
>
> What station was this? Are you sure you weren't actually
> DX'ing Hot 104? Or WYNK 101.5 in Baton Rouge?
>

Nope, it was 94.7 Lacombe, LA. Calls are technically WOPR, as per the FCC. That's why I was wondering.<P ID="signature">______________

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Nope, it was 94.7 Lacombe, LA. Calls are technically WOPR,
as per the FCC. That's why I was wondering.

IIRC, as long as you have the proper calls/COL in the legal ID,
you can call your station whatever you like. In the mid 80's...
WRMX in Nashville (and many others, I bet) called themselves WMIX.
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> Nope, it was 94.7 Lacombe, LA. Calls are technically WOPR,
> as per the FCC. That's why I was wondering.
>
> IIRC, as long as you have the proper calls/COL in the legal
> ID,
> you can call your station whatever you like. In the mid
> 80's...
> WRMX in Nashville (and many others, I bet) called
> themselves WMIX.
>
Also, 540 WFLF in Orlando generally refers to itself as WFLA. It's part of a network with (but not a 100% simulcast of) the actual WFLA 970 in Tampa.

WOPR is the lesser member of a simulcast with 94.9 WPRF-Reserve, LA and calls itself "Praise 94.9". If any calls are used on air outside of the ID, it would be WPRF.

I don't think that's what we're seeing here, though, since he said this occurred during the legal ID. If it was correct, it may not mean that Hot 104 is flipping (which would be a bad move, IMO, since they're bouncing back from the hurricane hassle quite well), but that these two stations are flipping from gospel to something else.
 
> > Nope, it was 94.7 Lacombe, LA. Calls are technically WOPR,
>
> > as per the FCC. That's why I was wondering.
> >
> > IIRC, as long as you have the proper calls/COL in the
> legal
> > ID,
> > you can call your station whatever you like. In the mid
> > 80's...
> > WRMX in Nashville (and many others, I bet) called
> > themselves WMIX.
> >
> Also, 540 WFLF in Orlando generally refers to itself as
> WFLA. It's part of a network with (but not a 100% simulcast
> of) the actual WFLA 970 in Tampa.
>
> WOPR is the lesser member of a simulcast with 94.9
> WPRF-Reserve, LA and calls itself "Praise 94.9". If any
> calls are used on air outside of the ID, it would be WPRF.
>
> I don't think that's what we're seeing here, though, since
> he said this occurred during the legal ID. If it was
> correct, it may not mean that Hot 104 is flipping (which
> would be a bad move, IMO, since they're bouncing back from
> the hurricane hassle quite well), but that these two
> stations are flipping from gospel to something else.
>

It is occuring during the legal ID. The legal ID they're currently using says "WYOK 94.7 Lacombe, Slidell, Mandeville".

Also, since Katrina, they haven't simulcasted with 94.9. I don't know why.

Either Hot 104 is changing their calls, or something bizarre is going on here.
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