Legal ID?

[954]

I just heard a WJNA ID at 9:04 PM, saying...

"WJNA... Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach"

I think I've learned enough from this board to assume that that isn't a legal ID. Isn't the city of license supposed to be first?

I just checked R-L, to be sure. COL is still listed as Royal Palm Beach.

73s

 

[top4odj]

I just heard a WJNA ID at 9:04 PM, saying...

"WJNA... Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach"

I think I've learned enough from this board to assume that that isn't a legal ID. Isn't the city of license supposed to be first?

I just checked R-L, to be sure. COL is still listed as Royal Palm Beach.

73s

Yes. The city of license is supposed to be first in the Station Identification. It is also supposed to be at a natural break to the closest point at the top of the hour. Most stations bury it during the :50 stopset. With 96X Phase II, our original city of license was Miramar, so our hourly ID was "....Miramar, Miami, Fort Lauderdale & The Palm Beaches" Boy was that a mouthful. We petitioned and were able to drop Miramar after awhile.

 

[jbrasco951]

That's James Crystal for you. They probably give another ID during the hour that gives the proper city of license. Sister Station WFTL give one at the toh : WFTL: West Palm Beach to Miami Beach and the other ID is at :30 WFTL-Ft. Lauderdale

 

[otterk9]

Actually, James Crystal re-engineered WJNA recently ... and, indeed, the city of license was changed to Boca Raton. According to the FCC database, they're now 25kW day and night.

 

[954]

Actually, James Crystal re-engineered WJNA recently ... and, indeed, the city of license was changed to Boca Raton. According to the FCC database, they're now 25kW day and night.

Thanks, Otter..... R-L isn't as up-to-date, but quicker to use.

And welcome to the board.

Wonder why they changed it?

73s from 954

New WFTL page... http://RadioPages.net/radio/wftl2005.html

 

[The-Major]

Yes. The city of license is supposed to be first in the Station Identification. It is also supposed to be at a natural break to the closest point at the top of the hour. Most stations bury it during the :50 stopset. With 96X Phase II, our original city of license was Miramar, so our hourly ID was "....Miramar, Miami, Fort Lauderdale & The Palm Beaches" Boy was that a mouthful. We petitioned and were able to drop Miramar after awhile.

Anyone who has read anything that I have posted on here over the past 8 months or so will know that I truly miss those booming, ridiculously loud, over-the-top, and robotic sound-effect and jingle-filled top-of-the-hour station identifications that lasted a good 15 seconds or more. You know - the ones that would make your stereo speakers vibrate. Those were the days !

But then there were the late-1980s. I remember at least a few loud TOP 40 deejays at the time on perhaps HOT-105 or POWER-96 that would manually do those I.D.s in the following phonetic (and frenetic) manner:

'HOT-105 es WHQT - Ma-Ami, Fot Loddadel, And Da Poum Bee-Chaz !'

Those were also the days !

THE MAJOR

 

[The-Major]

Thanks, Otter..... R-L isn't as up-to-date, but quicker to use.
Wonder why they changed it?

WJNA probably upgraded their power (from 7,500 watts by day / 460 watts by night) to get deeper into the more populous portion of South Florida. 25,000 watts at day and at night should do it (at least into southeastern Broward).

On the other hand I find it weird that WFTL brags that they cover 'West Palm Beach to Miami Beach'. Their 50,000 watts may reach all the way from Lake Okeechobee to the Jackie Gleason Theatre during the middle of the day, but I'm sure that their 24,000 watts can't make it to South Beach at Midnight !

THE MAJOR

 

[radiofish]

Of course it's LEGAL:

Sec. 73.1201 Station identification.

(b) Content. (1) Official station identification shall consist of
the station's call letters immediately followed by the community or
communities specified in its license as the station's location:
Provided, That the name of the licensee or the station's frequency or
channel number, or both, as stated on the station's license may be
inserted between the call letters and station location. No other
insertion is permissible.

 

[Ai4i]

On the other hand...WFTL...can't make it to South Beach at Midnight !THE MAJOR

I am not current on protection ratios, but WACC in Hialeah on 830 is a second adjacency.