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WBSX C.O.L. change?

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DStroyer

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Has WBSX changed their community of license to Wilkes-Barre? That's what they've been running at the top of the hour. Or, maybe they're just burying the real legal ID in a stopset and running the "fake" one at the top of the hour?

FCC site still has them listed as licensed to Hazleton.
 
I think you have to reserve the TOH ID for whatever you have on file with FCC. If Mike Rudolf is around, he can tell you some interesting "bury" stories, done quite legally.

IIRC, which doesn't happen too often, I thought BSX wanted to change their COL.
 
They are still Hazleton (the tower is at the WMGS site on Penobscot). It's probably buryed in there somewhere.
 
DStroyer said:
Has WBSX changed their community of license to Wilkes-Barre? That's what they've been running at the top of the hour. Or, maybe they're just burying the real legal ID in a stopset and running the "fake" one at the top of the hour?

FCC site still has them listed as licensed to Hazleton.
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I just listened out of curiosity late Friday afternoon and the TOH ID was a promotion of the HD then followed by "WBSX...Wilkes Barre, Scranton, Hazleton...WBSX HD-1" then back to music... If it's being used as a "vanity ID", it does give the appearance that the COL has changed to Wilkes Barre including the HD-1. Unless the FCC is now allowing two other cities before the COL, Somebody at Citadel needs to study up on the Legal ID requirements. Although, WARM went days at a time under the prior talk format where the automation would miss the TOH ID and not aware of the FCC doing a thing...
 
Although, WARM went days at a time under the prior talk format where the automation would miss the TOH ID and not aware of the FCC doing a thing...
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They sure did and it was much more than just "days". They did it constantly. WCDL and WNAK are one up on them now though. They go days and days with nothing but a dead carrier. I guess they must figure why ID nothing? Is it legal to throw a dead carrier for days with no audio and not even a TOH Id? In fact no Id at all? Just wondering.
 
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