Long Legal IDs

[MarcB]

I know there are many state-wide "Public Radio Stations" with long legal IDs. What about commercial stations? What are some of the longest legal IDs in the country? Here in Connecticut we have a network of Translators based out of an HD2 station that run a Spanish Tropical format as BOMBA FM. The legal ID is.

WMRQ HD2 and HD4 Waterbury.
WBMW HD4 Pawcatuck.
W253BQ Meriden.
W258AL Clinton.*
W246CC Bolton.
W283BS Bridgeport.
W283BW New London.
WSPR 1490AM West Springfield. (Even though they are BOMBA they run separate Programming)

Then the VO Guy goes 97.1, 98.5, 99.5, and 104.5. BOMBA-FM.

P.S. I'm unsure of the exact order of the translators when they give the legal ID.

*While W258AL is licensed to Clinton their antenna is actually on the other side of Connecticut somewhere in the area of Lakewood Road in Waterbury.

http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/detect.aspx?call=wmrq_hd2

 

[purpledevil]

I know there are many state-wide "Public Radio Stations" with long legal IDs. What about commercial stations? What are some of the longest legal IDs in the country? Here in Connecticut we have a network of Translators based out of an HD2 station that run a Spanish Tropical format as BOMBA FM. The legal ID is.

WMRQ HD2 and HD4 Waterbury.
WBMW HD4 Pawcatuck.
W253BQ Meriden.
W258AL Clinton.*
W246CC Bolton.
W283BS Bridgeport.
W283BW New London.
WSPR 1490AM West Springfield. (Even though they are BOMBA they run separate Programming)

Then the VO Guy goes 97.1, 98.5, 99.5, and 104.5. BOMBA-FM.

P.S. I'm unsure of the exact order of the translators when they give the legal ID.

*While W258AL is licensed to Clinton their antenna is actually on the other side of Connecticut somewhere in the area of Lakewood Road in Waterbury.

http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/detect.aspx?call=wmrq_hd2

Marc, I'd like to introduce you to the Aleluya Radio Network in Pasa(git down!)dena, Texas.

"Esto es Radio Aleluya, KFTG Pasadena 88-1 FM. K201EU Katy 88-1 FM. KABA Louise, 90-3 FM. KUZN Centerville 105-9 FM. K218EJ 89-5 FM Galveston. KTYR Trinity 89-7 FM. K201DZ Port Boliver 88-1 FM. K210DF Lake Jackson 89-9 FM. KRCM 1380 AM Shenandoah. K227BD 93-3 FM Freeport. K278AU 103-5 FM College Station. K268CJ 101-5 FM Livingston. 88-1 KQUE "dash" FM Bay City (yes, they actually say "dash"). KJOZ 880 AM Conroe, KQUE 980 AM Rosenberg Richmond. KMIC 1590 AM Houston y KCOH 1230 AM Houston. Radio Aleluya!"

They have a music bed that runs under the recorded ID, but it finishes as KQUE Rosenberg's ID is spoken. Total ID time: 2 minutes, 14 seconds. I have my doubts you'll find one much longer than this.

 

[Kent]

Before it became big, EMF's Air 1 network would ID all of its stations in a single block. Not sure if it was more than 2:14, but it got pretty long.

 

[Mr Tony]

kQDS in Duluth MN has (only) 4 satellite stations but their ID goes pretty long in my mind

"KQ95 is
KQDS 94.9 FM Duluth-Superior
KBAJ 105.5 FM Deer River/Grand Rapids, Hibbing and the whole Range
KAOD 106.7 FM Babbitt/Ely and lower Canada
WXXZ 95.3 FM Grand Marais/Ashland
WWWI 95.9 Pillager/BrainerdBaxter
The KQ network originates at KQDS"

 

[joebtsflk1]

Colorado Springs' Light Praise 90.5 has a baker's dozen in its network of full-power stations and they ID them all at the top of hour...
Canon City – KTLC 89.1 FM
Colorado Springs/Pueblo – KTLF 90.5 FM
Dolores/Cortez – KTCF8 9.5 FM
Laramie/Cheyenne, WY – KTDX 89.3 FM
Leadville – KTOL 90.9 FM
Montrose – KTMH 89.9 FM
Pagosa Springs – KTPS 89.7 FM
Salida – KTPF 91.3 FM
South Fork – KTML 91.5 FM
Steamboat Springs – KTSG 91.7 FM
Sterling – KTAD 89.9 FM
Trinidad/Raton, NM – KTDL 90.7 FM
Walsenburg – KTAW 89.3 FM

I haven't heard them ID translators on air, but I haven't listened during the designated translator ID hours. I would hope they use frequency shift keying to ID them in code.

The venerable Minnesota Public Radio network with its huge fleet of repeaters and translators (and dollars, thank you forever Garrison) used to (as in 25 years ago) send a two-tone at the ID break which fired a ID cart at the individual transmitters. I'm sure they have a better,cheaper, less intrusive method today.

 

[gr8oldies]

Radio Maria, last I knew, blocked all of their far-flung affiliates including WULM, Springfield, OH in one legal ID. Jimmy Swaggart's network does the same since it's all Jimmy, all the time and o local programming.

 

[jwnelson]

The Covenant Network (religious/Catholic) in the Midwest IDs all its stations and translators. 15 full power stations and at least 11 translators, and at the top of each hour the ID includes all full-power and translator calls.

 

[ChocoMingo]

KZHT does that too, with 2 translators, including their boosters. The Thunder Network of stations in Tampa Bay has 5 ids, WMTX-HD2 Tampa (originating station), 94.5 Gulfport, 105.9 West Tampa, 102.9 Wesley Chapel South, and 99.1 Bayonet Point.

 

[joebtsflk1]

The Covenant Network (religious/Catholic) in the Midwest IDs all its stations and translators. 15 full power stations and at least 11 translators, and at the top of each hour the ID includes all full-power and translator calls.

I could see the almost transcedental meditation effect this could have. "Our Stations, KAAA St. Joseph, WAAA St. Paul, KAAB St. Louis, WAAB St. Olaf, KAAC St. Ansgar, hallowed be thy names....(continue reciting the Holy Rosary)

 

[crainbebo]

South Dakota Public Broadcasting dues the same thing as Minnesota Public Radio. They send a DTMF tone which cues local IDs at the transmitters. Online listeners get the DTMF tone and KUSD-89.7's legal ID at TOH.

 

[Radio-X]

Longest ID I have heard was near midnight on WVTF Roanoke, VA as late as 2011 (yes, a semi-statewide public radio, but very long nonetheless). During their last jazz song before switching to Classical 24 overnight, they lower the audio on the last track and play:

- Legal IDs for all stations in the network
- Legal IDs for all translators
- Microwave relay link IDs and locations
- Studio location and station contact info

It would go something like "WVTF is relayed to listeners in far Southwest Virginia on WISE-FM Wise along with translators W200XX located in Coeburn, [etc.]. Programs are relayed to these stations and rebroadcasters through microwave links WXX999 on Pine Top Ridge in Pulaski County, WXX998 on Big Wilson Knob near Marion [etc]"

They would do this for each and every one of their six full-power stations (along with the plethora of translators that came with each). At the time, it made for at least a 4-5 minute long ID. Probably different now that WVTF has thinned their network to provide an all-talk service, but the most in-depth non-sign-off legal ID I have ever heard.

Radio-X

 

[crainbebo]

Sheesh! You'd think they were concluding their broadcast day with that message. I've never heard a legal ID on radio with microwave links.

 

[Radio-X]

Sheesh! You'd think they were concluding their broadcast day with that message. I've never heard a legal ID on radio with microwave links.

It was unique...Virginia Tech (WVTF's owner) does have one of the mid-Atlantic's best engineering programs, though. Probably the pocket-protector brigade convincing the University's regents "We have to announce everything at least once a day...FCC rules".

I guess its like those few TV stations that still do a sign-on announcement at 5am even though they have been broadcasting 24/7 for years. A combo of old tradition, and probably an old-school gent working in engineering who yearns for nostalgia, and a GM who is far less worried about a 4 minute sign-on tape than he is working on his golf handicap.

And yes, it does sound like a sign-off spiel. I suppose it sorta is, as WVTF is staffed live and local 5am-12am. Classical 24 in the overnights. I think they were still signing off into the early 90's, as was SCETV Radio and Peach State Public Radio.

Their nornal ID used to be a doozy too. Read live it would go as "______ is up next on WVTF Public Radio...WVTF Roanoke, WVTU and WVTW Charlottesville, WVTR Marion, WISE-FM Wise, WFFC-FM HD2 Ferrum/Rocky Mount and 89.5 in Lynchburg. A service of Virginia Tech...a university putting knowledge to work. The time is ____"

I should point out that even though they had at the time 15-20 translators across all their full-powered stations, only the translator in Lynchburg's was identified by frequency at the TOH ID.

Radio-X