THE GROOVE @ 105.7's LEGAL ID......

[electroboy73]

(Just the ID part itself)...It's pretty wicked! It's kind of a deep, robotic, haunting, whisper (heavy on the HHHH sound):
"DOUBLE-U...DOUBLE-U....VEEEEEHHH....AAAAYYEEHHH..........CAAHHHNNN-TOHHHNNNN!"

LOL....guess it just trips me out.

And is anyone actually receiving the station as a full ((((STEREO)))) signal, yet? I'm not! (still my only beef about it) So, other than
it still being a MONO-FM, I guess it is sounding a little tighter.

Any thoughts?

 

[BIGSTICK]

I carrried the signal clear all the way to Athens yesterday, until Augusta completely took over.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

I was shocked that they stream live over my Sprint phone through Sprint radio.

 

[jal41]

Actually...the legal ID is WWVA-FM, not WWVA. Clear Channel is using WWVA on a heritage AM in West Virginia. There is one version that the Groove is using (with the announcers voice with no effects) that is using the -FM suffix. A station with the -FM suffix (WWVA-FM, WKHX-FM, WSB-FM) as part of the legal ID must use the suffix during legal ID's. The Groove has been breaking FCC regulations since the launch.

The robotic voice may also be against FCC regulations as well. The legal ID must be spoken in a clear voice. Not sung or with effects. Double strike for the Groove.

 

[jabba17]

Actually...the legal ID is WWVA-FM, not WWVA. Clear Channel is using WWVA on a heritage AM in West Virginia. There is one version that the Groove is using (with the announcers voice with no effects) that is using the -FM suffix. A station with the -FM suffix (WWVA-FM, WKHX-FM, WSB-FM) as part of the legal ID must use the suffix during legal ID's. The Groove has been breaking FCC regulations since the launch.

The robotic voice may also be against FCC regulations as well. The legal ID must be spoken in a clear voice. Not sung or with effects. Double strike for the Groove.

I always found it interesting how some stations have "-FM" as part of their legal id and some don't. Is it only, and always, applied when there is an AM with the same calls? Or can a station be WXYZ-FM when there's no WXYZ AM? Not counting situations where the AM station disappeared later on--I saw several of those on RecNet (WLKQ-FM, WTSH-FM, WWEV-FM).

With WKHX, the AM side (now WDWD, as my daughter pointed out) was changed from WPLO to WKHX (AM) AFTER WBIE changed to WKHX (FM), and according to RecNet WKHX changed their calls to WKHX-FM at that time.

The only possible exception I saw on RecNet was WKLS; there was no indication of WKLS (FM) changing calls to WKLS-FM when WKLS AM (970) was on the air.

 

[Bill Betten]

Actually...the legal ID is WWVA-FM, not WWVA. Clear Channel is using WWVA on a heritage AM in West Virginia. There is one version that the Groove is using (with the announcers voice with no effects) that is using the -FM suffix. A station with the -FM suffix (WWVA-FM, WKHX-FM, WSB-FM) as part of the legal ID must use the suffix during legal ID's. The Groove has been breaking FCC regulations since the launch.

The robotic voice may also be against FCC regulations as well. The legal ID must be spoken in a clear voice. Not sung or with effects. Double strike for the Groove.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISW

Many years ago, this was brought to the FCC's attention and they did not have a issue with it.

Historical station IDs

Through the 1980s, KISW’s trademark station ID included the opening power-chord slam from the Thin Lizzy song “Jail Break”, followed immediately by the voice of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth naming the call letters K-I-S-W, and the station’s slogan, “Seattle’s Best Rock”. Another ID featured all four member of Van Halen yelling the call letters with David Lee Roth over the end with the slogan. This was acceptable to the FCC as a legal ID, required at the top of each hour, because the call letters were said directly before the city.