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Miami/Fort Lauderdale WFEZ Easy 93.1 Station ID

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While visiting Southern Florida again 2 weeks ago, I was enjoying "easy 93.1" but noticed for several hours not a single legal top-of-the-hour Station Identification. I even called station and left message reminding them of the fact. And upon leaving FL I took one last listen at top of hour, and still no ID.

Strange, as one would think that a top-market station would know the most basic rules of broadcasting.

Easy 93's competition WLYF had top of the hour distinct audible ID almost exactly at top of the hour.

But...I will compliment WFEZ again for carrying NOAA Weather Radio on their HD3 channel.

Now back to New England winter weather.
 
Legal IDs are to run at a natural break in programming which is now defined as a commercial break, usually at about :45 past the hour. The FCC is fine with burying call letters and city of license inside the commercial break. This has been done, pretty much nationwide, for a couple of decades or so.
 
b-turner said:
Legal IDs are to run at a natural break in programming which is now defined as a commercial break, usually at about :45 past the hour. The FCC is fine with burying call letters and city of license inside the commercial break. This has been done, pretty much nationwide, for a couple of decades or so.
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True, But I was listening pretty steadily while down there, and my friends where I was staying had it on continuously during the day. And I'm listening on line now, and been listening for past hour between 10:15 and 11:15 AM and no legal ID anytime. There were plenty of commercial breaks and idle chit-chat where they could have easily slid in a 5-second ID.

Sorry, I'm showing my old-school live-and-local radio days from the 1980s and 90s.
 
I didn't hear the legal ID after the commercial break that came before the end of the 3pm hour. Hmmm.

Back in the Rob Sidney days, Lite used to have the legal ID as part of the weather report the jocks would read. '...the WLYF Miami temperature is 79 degrees. And thanks for turning on The Lite!' Great station.
 
With Legal ID’s, I think it’s more of “the thought that counts” than anything. 103.7 in DFW hasn’t aired a proper legal ID in years. When I lived in Illinois, there was a station that didn’t air a legal ID at all in maybe 10-15 years. They probably didn’t have working equipment to air a legal ID, but that’s beyond the point. I bet you that NOTHING would happen if iHeart or Audacy or any of the other companies just decided to stop airing legal IDs on their stations.
strangelove said:
Back in the Rob Sidney days, Lite used to have the legal ID as part of the weather report the jocks would read. '...the WLYF Miami temperature is 79 degrees. And thanks for turning on The Lite!' Great station.
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I loved how they did the WLYF Legal ID/TOH. I recorded a whole set of IDs when I was vacationing in South Florida back in 2005. Here’s the WLYF ID:

 
chriscervantez said:
With Legal ID’s, I think it’s more of “the thought that counts” than anything. 103.7 in DFW hasn’t aired a proper legal ID in years. When I lived in Illinois, there was a station that didn’t air a legal ID at all in maybe 10-15 years. They probably didn’t have working equipment to air a legal ID, but that’s beyond the point. I bet you that NOTHING would happen if iHeart or Audacy or any of the other companies just decided to stop airing legal IDs on their stations.

I loved how they did the WLYF Legal ID/TOH. I recorded a whole set of IDs when I was vacationing in South Florida back in 2005. Here’s the WLYF ID:

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What's not legal about "This is KVIL, KVIL-HD1 Highland Park"?

 
chriscervantez said:
With Legal ID’s, I think it’s more of “the thought that counts” than anything. 103.7 in DFW hasn’t aired a proper legal ID in years. When I lived in Illinois, there was a station that didn’t air a legal ID at all in maybe 10-15 years. They probably didn’t have working equipment to air a legal ID, but that’s beyond the point. I bet you that NOTHING would happen if iHeart or Audacy or any of the other companies just decided to stop airing legal IDs on their stations.
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WBGG 105.9 broadcasts in HD and has never mentioned the digital service in the legal ID. WIOD is on the HD2, but i haven't listened enough to hear if the HD is mentioned there. Either no one is complaining to the FCC about it, or no one in management or government cares.
 
strangelove said:
WBGG 105.9 broadcasts in HD and has never mentioned the digital service in the legal ID. WIOD is on the HD2, but i haven't listened enough to hear if the HD is mentioned there. Either no one is complaining to the FCC about it, or no one in management or government cares.
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There is a WBGG-HD2 ID every hour on WIOD.

The FCC's current version of the legal ID rule is written in a very vague fashion. It simply requires that stations using HD "shall identify its digital signal, including any free multicast audio programming streams, in a manner that appropriately alerts its audience to the fact that it is listening to a digital audio broadcast."

Some broadcasters and their lawyers have decided it's fine to do that simply by using the PAD data on an HD radio's display, and the FCC doesn't seem to have an issue with that.
 
Many of the iHeart stations in NYC do not mention their HD1. Z-100 WHTZ is the only one from iHeart that mentions HD. They are confusing as they say “WHTZ Newark/New York City - FM and HD too (so it sounds like FM and HD2). The rest just use their call letters.
 
djl said:
Many of the iHeart stations in NYC do not mention their HD1. Z-100 WHTZ is the only one from iHeart that mentions HD. They are confusing as they say “WHTZ Newark/New York City - FM and HD too (so it sounds like FM and HD2). The rest just use their call letters.
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Shouldn't it be 'WHTZ-FM and HD1
Newark/New York City' instead of having the suffixes after the community of license?

It's odd how there seems to be no hard and fast rule about identifying the HD signal(s). The rock station on Wild 95.5 HD2 in West Palm IDs hourly as 'WLDI HD2' with no CoL mentioned at all.
 
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strangelove said:
Shouldn't it be 'WHTZ-FM and HD1 Newark/New York City' instead of having the suffixes after the community of license?
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The station's call letters are "WHTZ", not "WHTZ-FM", so there shouldn't be an "-FM" before the COL. The HD is where the gray area is.
It could be as is without HD ("WHTZ Newark") or "WHTZ and WHTZ HD1 Newark"
 
fybush said:
What's not legal about "This is KVIL, KVIL-HD1 Highland Park"?

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The complete city of license is “Highland Park-Dallas”. It’s one of those rare combo COL’s. I know it’s a technicality, but it’s still not 100% legal.

Here’s an older ID. This one includes the full COL. They’re sneaky with it, but Dallas is in there:

 
chriscervantez said:
The complete city of license is “Highland Park-Dallas”. It’s one of those rare combo COL’s. I know it’s a technicality, but it’s still not 100% legal.

Here’s an older ID. This one includes the full COL. They’re sneaky with it, but Dallas is in there:

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Yes, just as the 102.1 facility (now KDGE) is technically "Fort Worth-Dallas", not just "Fort Worth" (although most all Fort Worth-licensed stations include "Dallas" after "Fort Worth" in their IDs, only KDGE is legally obligated to do so. Same legal dual combo exists for KMJQ "Houston-Galveston"
I'm sure Mr. @fybush can provide the full explanation as to why KDGE and KVIL have these unique dual COLs.

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Huff said:
Yes, just as the 102.1 facility (now KDGE) is technically "Fort Worth-Dallas", not just "Fort Worth" (although most all Fort Worth-licensed stations include "Dallas" after "Fort Worth" in their IDs, only KDGE is legally obligated to do so. Same legal dual combo exists for KMJQ "Houston-Galveston"
I'm sure Mr. @fybush can provide the full explanation as to why KDGE and KVIL have these unique dual COLs.

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In the case of KVIL, back in their early Top 40 turned AC days, their studio was in Highland Park Village, and the station had a large listener base in the Park Cities. The studio later moved to the office tower which was later incorporated into Mockingbird Station, prior to moving down Central Expressway to the tower where the Audrey studios still reside today. Speaking of, Audrey recently leased another commercial space and is planning to move their DFW studios, but I cannot recall the new location.
 
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