KXFG 92.9- the simulcast of KFRG- previously identified as KXFG Sun City Temecula but I have noticed in the past few weeks they're now ID'ing as KXFG Menifee Temecula. Is it required that the city of license in the ID changes when an unincorporated area incorporates and changes their name? Its odd that the change is just happening now when the incorporation happened years ago.
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KXFG CITY OF LICENSE
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Thomps2525
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Here is a page of recent FCC actions that includes the approval of KXFG's request to change its community of license from Sun City to Menifee "due to the incorporation of Sun City into Menifee." What I want to know now is why Sun City and Menifee are called "communities" instead of "cities." And KXFG's business address is on Moreno Road in Temecula. Is Temecula also a "community"? Or is it a real city?
http://www.fcc.gov/article/doc-319364a2
http://www.fcc.gov/article/doc-319364a2
LARadioRewind said:
The FCC rules include this;
73.1120 Station location.
Each AM, FM, TV and Class A TV
broadcast station will be licensed to
the principal community or other political
subdivision which it primarily
serves. This principal community (city,
town or other political subdivision)
will be considered to be the geographical
station location.
The Rules do not refer to "city" of license... they refer to "community" and explain that a community can be a city, town or other form of describing a place where people live.
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Thomps2525
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Then I'm going to call KXFG and ask them to play Community Lights by Ray Price and Community Of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie. 
Dr. Akbar said:LARadioRewind said:Then I'm going to call KXFG and ask them to play Community Lights by Ray Price and Community Of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie.
Hey, you forgot We Built This Community On Rock & Roll by Starship.
Or Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas Community".
The second part of Davids answer is that the FCC uses the US Census data to determine what meets the requirement to be called a Community. A CDP - Is a Census Designated Place -- that may be called or used as a COL - Community of License. So both Incorporated Cities, towns or boroughs are listed by the US Census as well as area assigned as a "CDP" - which are not incorporated as a city or town, but meet the FCC rules.
MisterGort said:
So the song is now "We Built This Census Designated Place On Rock And Roll".
LOL - so true.
Stop ! You guys are killing me. Cambria and Cayucos (in SLO County) are both a CDP. Ellwood - Goleta - Isla Vista - Montecito (Santa Barbara County) are all CDP's. And the Beat goes on.
Oh -- JB - Good one. Yes. Isn't the transmitter located inside the city limits ?
JON BRUCE said:
There have been quite a few cases of towns and CDPs being absorbed by others. Stations usually petition the FCC to change the COL by presenting the official act of annexation, and the FCC takes it in stride.
I had a case years ago of one city/county in Puerto Rico absorbing another. Since PR has neither counties, nor cities nor towns... just 77 municipalities... the FCC had a lot of trouble figuring that one out... as they said they could not license a station to a county. The issue was trying to apply a rigid standard to an exception. They probably go crazy over the parishes in Louisiana.
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