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Ugliest Legal IDs

tripinva

tripinva

I've been listening to Radio IQ a lot lately and I cannot get over how UGLY their legal ID is at the top of the hour. It's atrocious. To quote:

"WFFC-HD 89-9 Ferrum
WVTW-HD 88-5 Charlottesville
WLUR 91-5 Lexington
WEHC 90.7 Emory
WVTF-HD2 89-1 Roanoke
WVTU-HD2 89-3 Charlottesville
WVTR-HD2 91-9 Marion
WWVT 1260 Christiansburg
W201CN 88-1 Afton"

I haven't managed to catch an ID with the Richmond, Roanoke, or Lynchburg translators IDed. It's amazing to me how lengthy and ugly it is. I haven't listened to the main WVTF signal lately to hear what the main ID sounds like these days, but I caught it just a few minutes ago and it was:

"WVTF-HD 89-1 Roanoke
WVTU-HD 89-3 Charlottesville
WVTR-HD 91-9 Marion
WVTW-HD2 88-5 Charlottesville
WISE-FM 90.5 Wise"

Not nearly as bad, though the guy reading it did stumble before saying WVTR was 89-1 in Marion, but whatever.

Are there any really ugly IDs in your area?

- Trip
 
It's too bad they couldn't just put it a tone detection of some sort that would fire off an individual legal ID for each station.

I won't name them but I know of a station (or two) that uses silent station IDs on AM..that is, these guys just ignore the rule. One in particular hasn't aired a legal ID for months!
 
Alan McCall said:
I won't name them but I know of a station (or two) that uses silent station IDs on AM..that is,
these guys just ignore the rule. One in particular hasn't aired a legal ID for months!
Click to expand...

Oh, name them! On the Phoenix board, we constantly rag on KAZG 1440 Scottsdale
for not doing a legal ID at sign-on and sign-off. The carrier just pops on with music
in progress at 6 AM, and the carrier is dumped in mid-song or whatever when the
lamptimer decides it's monthly sunset.

And it's not just months...this has been going on for years. ::)
 
I don't have it uploaded anywhere at the moment, but I have a legal ID from KTBG in Warrensburg, Missouri, that said something like "KTBG Warrensburg-Kansas City and 104.9 Osage Beach, utilizing studio to transmitter link (insert call sign here), a service of University of Central Missouri." I always thought it sounded awkward.
 
88.1 WMNR in Monroe, CT has a bajillion stations and translators:

http://www.wmnr.org/

90.3 WAMC in Albany, NY has 2 bajllion stations and translators:

http://www.wamc.org/

Radio Cantico Nuevo:

WJDM 1530 AM Elizabeth, New Jersey
WNYH 740 AM Huntinton, New York
WXCT 990 AM Southington, Connecticut

It used to be:
WNSW 1430 AM Newark, New Jersey
WNYG 1440 AM Babylon, New York (and they were pronouncing it Bah-Bee-Lon)
WXCT 990 AM Southington, Connecticut
WBQN 1160 AM Bareloneta-Marti, Puerto Rico

And there was a previous illegal ID used that said WXCT 990 AM Connecticut-Massachusetts

WNPR Connecticut Public Radio http://www.wnpr.org/
 
Air1 (EMF Broadcasting) used to ID all of its stations on the top of the hour before implementing sufficient technology at each station to allow for local IDs and announcements. The last ID was always the newest affiliate.
 
One man's ugliness is another man's beauty:

http://www.tophour.com/

And Trip, a quick look at Toppy's Roanoke-Lynchburg market listing shows that you really need to record the full Radio IQ ID and send it up to them...

Here, I'm waiting for a chance to grab one of WKSU's IDs with IDs of its two translators (in Boardman and Ashland) mixed in with its full-power repeaters...
 
Or how about Phoenix's classical music station: "This is KBAQ Phoenix and HD." The city of HD, Arizona is on the license? ;D
 
Alan McCall said:
It's too bad they couldn't just put it a tone detection of some sort that would fire off an individual legal ID for each station.

I won't name them but I know of a station (or two) that uses silent station IDs on AM..that is, these guys just ignore the rule. One in particular hasn't aired a legal ID for months!
Click to expand...

Sad, as I can remember a time where as a rookie or student broadcaster how you would really stress over it if you
happened to screw-up and blow a legal ID. At least a 17 year old freshman cared.
 
The WORST alphabet soup mess I ever heard was in Eastern Washington in 1998:

"American Christian Network affiliates are KSPO Dishman-Spokane-Coeur d'Alene, KTBI Ephrata-Moses Lake-Wenatchee, KTAC Moses Lake-Ephrata, KGDN Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, KYAK Yakima and now KGER Quincy-Wenatchee*......"

*KGER was later sold, KTAC is now part of a separate co-owned network.........
 
One gets a little of everything in the Tri-State area around Pittsburgh. My favorite multiple ID has to be West Virginia Public Radio (heard locally on FM 89.9 out of Wheeling and FM 90.9 out of Morgantown).

K-Love NEVER ID'd its FM 94.1 in Clairton before Broadcast Communications took it over for WKHB-620's nighttime extension into Pittsburgh. It always ID'd a Uniontown translator but not Clairton.

Then again, the Broadcast Communications stations both have very quiet "WKFB Jeannette" and "WKHB Irwin" IDs before they proclaim to the world that they are "K-F-B Pittsburgh" and "K-H-B Pittsburgh"!
 
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