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KSCF Legal ID

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nocoradio

I was listening to KSCF today, and caught their legal ID. It was "KSCF-HD-1 San Diego, KAMP-HD-2 Los Angeles." This is extremely "inside baseball" but why are they identifying the programming source of their HD2 signal, and not the signal itself? Engineering types, please illuminate.
 
From the FCC.gov web site of horror:

"A radio station operating in DAB hybrid mode or extended hybrid mode shall identify its digital signal, including any free multicast audio programming streams, in a manner that appropriately alerts its audience
to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio broadcast. No other insertion between the station's call letters and the community or communities specified in its license is permissible."

Gee, I am still figuring out the hybrids on Battle Star Gallactica .... By your command ....
 
So they SHOULD be saying KSCF-FM, HD-1, HD-2, San Diego. While KAMP-FM is the source of KSCF's HD-2 programming, it is not the local HD-2 transmitter people in San Diego are listening to (and "KAMP HD-2, Los Angeles" isn't even the source of the KSCF HD-2 programming). It would be like local stations around the country identifying themselves with a Pahrump, NV legal ID while airing Art Bell.
 
They're eliminating any extra work for Amp Radio in LA so that KAMP doesn't have to lift a finger to have Sophie on their HD-2 station. Sohpie takes care of both market's TOH ID. Plus it's a way to boast they are broadcasting in the #2 market and Star 94-1 isn't, I'm guessing.

I don't think KSCF have an HD 2 anymore, do they?
 
nocoradio said:
So they SHOULD be saying KSCF-FM, HD-1, HD-2, San Diego. While KAMP-FM is the source of KSCF's HD-2 programming, it is not the local HD-2 transmitter people in San Diego are listening to (and "KAMP HD-2, Los Angeles" isn't even the source of the KSCF HD-2 programming). It would be like local stations around the country identifying themselves with a Pahrump, NV legal ID while airing Art Bell.
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Radio3787 is correct. Sophie is just making it easy for KAMP HD-2 to id while letting SD know the station is also heard in LA.

KSCF HD-2 is a simulcast of KROQ Pasadena (KAMP FM is not the source of KSCF's HD2). While KROQ FM & HD-1 do not identify KSCF HD-2, there is a legal id for 'K-Roq San Diego (KSCF HD-2 San Diego intros a 'World Famous KROQ liner') that plays during spot sets in Los Angeles.

KSCF HD-3 is House of Sophie... I've never heard the legal id on the HD-3 because it drops out so often...
 
ncountysurf said:
KSCF HD-2 is a simulcast of KROQ Pasadena (KAMP FM is not the source of KSCF's HD2). While KROQ FM & HD-1 do not identify KSCF HD-2, there is a legal id for 'K-Roq San Diego (KSCF HD-2 San Diego intros a 'World Famous KROQ liner') that plays during spot sets in Los Angeles.

KSCF HD-3 is House of Sophie... I've never heard the legal id on the HD-3 because it drops out so often...
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Now I get it. And the KROQ thing is interesting. No major market PD (KROQ's) would go for identifying another set of call letters and another market on their station.
 
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