WFLA-AM

[RussAllen]

Am I going deaf from all the hip-hop I listen to? I could swear that last week while on vacation, I heard a Tampa station and an Orlando station using these call letters.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Firebird]

You will also hear a station in Tallahassee identify itself as WFLA. CC is branding some of their Florida News/Talk stations WFLA after the station in Tampa.

WFLA/970 Tampa (The Original)
WFLF/540 Orlando
WNLS/1270 Tallahassee

I'm sure at the top of the hour, the stations respective call letters are announced.

 

[wireless_fan]

You're not deaf, they are both Clear Channel owned... WFLA Tampa is the legal ID for the Tampa station, a heritage news/talk. When CC created the Orlando Station, they decided the WFLA calls have recognition on which they wished to capitalize. The legal ID is WFLF Orlando, but the nickname used at all times other than the top of hour legal ID is WFLA. kinda wierd.


> Am I going deaf from all the hip-hop I listen to? I could
> swear that last week while on vacation, I heard a Tampa
> station and an Orlando station using these call letters.
>

 

[OldAkronite]

> The legal ID is WFLF Orlando, but the nickname
> used at all times other than the top of hour legal ID is
> WFLA. kinda wierd.

Technically, the legal for 540 in the Orlando market is "WFLF Pine Hills/Orlando".

And even more technically, the "Orlando" is not part of the COL, but used on the air.

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[jcolletta275]

> You will also hear a station in Tallahassee identify itself
> as WFLA. CC is branding some of their Florida News/Talk
> stations WFLA after the station in Tampa.
>
> WFLA/970 Tampa (The Original)
> WFLF/540 Orlando
> WNLS/1270 Tallahassee
>
> I'm sure at the top of the hour, the stations respective
> call letters are announced.

I've pondered this for a while... I don't know whether to call it a good marketing ploy or the worst way to devalue the true WFLA's heritage calls. Makes my head spin.<P ID="signature">______________
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[ajhenderson]

> I've pondered this for a while... I don't know whether to
> call it a good marketing ploy or the worst way to devalue
> the true WFLA's heritage calls. Makes my head spin.

WFLF truly is a joke of a station. Although WNLS in Tallahassee, for the size of the market, seems to put on a decent show. Live in the morning and afternoon (presumably not piped in) and full-service news. Not bad.

As to the WFLA calls, as if CC cares... the calls are of value, but that station as well has become crap.

 

[FloridaBear1776]

WLW did the same thing...

When Crosley went into television, its stations were

WLW-T Cincinnati
WLW-D Dayton
WLW-I Indianapolis
WLW-C Columbus
WLW-A Atlanta

 

[nate81]

WLW - and WHK - did the same thing...

> When Crosley went into television, its stations were
>
> WLW-T Cincinnati
> WLW-D Dayton
> WLW-I Indianapolis
> WLW-C Columbus
> WLW-A Atlanta
>

The WLWA calls were also used, much, much later by Jacor at AM 550 in Cincinnati. Yes, there were once TWO WLWs in the same city.

See, Jacor bought then-WKRC-AM from Taft, and decided to image 550 as "550 WLW," couching the legal ID as "WLW-A Cincinnati Radio Station!" Didn't last long - Jacor ultimatly bought WCKY/1530, planted those calls on 550, and changed 1530's calls to WSAI.


In Cleveland, Forest City - then owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer - also owned WHK/1420 back in the 40's and 50's. The "WHK" callsign was recycled on stations in Columbus (WHKC, now WTVN/610) and Akron (WHKK, now WHLO/640), to name a few. Yet, Forest City never really utilitzed those stations into an actual network.

In any case, all respective stations passed into seperate ownership by the early 60's. Today, Salem owns WHK and WHKW/1220 in Cleveland, plus WHKZ/1440 in Warren; yet neither station simulcasts each other beyond a set point of time.

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[OldAkronite]

Re: WLW - and WHK - did the same thing...

> In any case, all respective stations passed into seperate
> ownership by the early 60's. Today, Salem owns WHK and
> WHKW/1220 in Cleveland, plus WHKZ/1440 in Warren; yet
> neither station simulcasts each other beyond a set point of
> time.

Just a minor point - I'm pretty sure that WHKZ/Warren simulcasts WHKW 95% of the time, give or take a few points in the schedule (among them, WHKZ's evening broadcast of Warren native Hugh Hewitt's talk show, and some paid programming splits).

WHK/1420 does not figure into this, of course, though one could argue its Salem network-dominated roster of hosts is nearly a simulcast of the company's other conservatalkers across the country...

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[wireless_fan]

thanks for the clarification, yes i was aware of Pine Hills being designated as the city of license, but forgot. its strange though, Pine Hills is not an incorporated city, but merely a "community" in unincorporated Orange County. They have no mayor or city council, or other governing body. Their zip codes, 32808 and 32818, trace to the city of orlando

> > The legal ID is WFLF Orlando, but the nickname
> > used at all times other than the top of hour legal ID is
> > WFLA. kinda wierd.
>
> Technically, the legal for 540 in the Orlando market is
> "WFLF Pine Hills/Orlando".
>
> And even more technically, the "Orlando" is not part of the
> COL, but used on the air.
>
> -OA
>

 

[gr8oldies]

Before that, 540 was licensed to a theme park! (Cypress Gardens.) It did at least have a post office.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Joseph_Gallant]

Re: WLW - and WHK - did the same thing...

Clear Channel also has a three-station simulcast talk network over as many CC-owned AM stations in New Hampshire.

WGIR-610 in Manchester is the originating station for a format that is also simulcast on WGIN-930 in Rochester and WGIP-1540 in Exeter (the latter is daytime only; WGIR and WGIN are 24/7 stations). The latter two stations extend WGIR's programming to the New Hampshire Seacoast region.

 

[nate81]

> You will also hear a station in Tallahassee identify itself
> as WFLA. CC is branding some of their Florida News/Talk
> stations WFLA after the station in Tampa.
>
> WFLA/970 Tampa (The Original)
> WFLF/540 Orlando
> WNLS/1270 Tallahassee
>
> I'm sure at the top of the hour, the stations respective
> call letters are announced.
>

To prove that I have no life whatsoever, here are the aformentioned three station's "WFLA" logos, each taken from their websites:

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[C91]

> You will also hear a station in Tallahassee identify itself
> as WFLA. CC is branding some of their Florida News/Talk
> stations WFLA after the station in Tampa.
>
> WFLA/970 Tampa (The Original)
> WFLF/540 Orlando
> WNLS/1270 Tallahassee

You can add this one to this list:

WDIZ/590 Panama City

The CC website lists it as a sports radio outlet. However, the last time I was in town (July) it seemed to be running a continuous loop of tourist related information with periodic news updates.