WGTK will air Casey Kasem AT 40 Countdown - The 70's

[Bengalsfan]

Now, they would have to get permission from WAVE-TV.

OK, so did WHAS TV get permission to use those calls from the radio station? I think I heard Meiners once suggest that the TV station change its calls to WHJS after the sale back in '89, but nothing happened.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rules were different when the Bingham properties (Courier-Journal, WHAS TV, AM, and WAMZ) were split up. I think at the time WHAS just got to keep the calls as they were.

Then a short time later the rules were amended which forced 970 to change their calls to something other than WAVE when they split off from TV.

And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :

Yes, the rules were different when the Bingham properties were sold. There was some talk about forcing the TV to change their call sign, but nothing ever came of it. Now, one of them has to change when split from the other. For example, WMAZ and WMAZ-TV in Macon Georgia. It was stipulated as part of the sale that the WMAZ callsign was to stay with the TV and the AM would change their callsign. At the time of the WHAS sale, both stations could keep the callsign if the licensees agreed. And since the WHAS callsign was important to both stations, Clear Channel and Providence-Journal reached an agreement. the TV's official callsign is WHAS-TV. It's not legal on channel 11 without the TV suffix since AM stations do not need a suffix.

 

[radiorob2.0]

And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :

I remember in print ads the "G" was used as a "g" or "9" as in Wav970.

 

[Radio Dave]

And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :

I remember in print ads the "G" was used as a "g" or "9" as in Wav970.

I never thought the 'G' was a bad thing. You only heard it at the top of the hour and I do believe in ads the G was dropped.

 

[radiorob2.0]

And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :

I remember in print ads the "G" was used as a "g" or "9" as in Wav970.

I never thought the 'G' was a bad thing. You only heard it at the top of the hour and I do believe in ads the G was dropped.

It was perception. I seem to remember the numbers were set below the letters to appear as (as close as I can recreate )"WAVg70". You get the idea.

 

[Radio Dave]

Looks like its a done deal. All the paper work has been signed and it should (fingers crossed) air Saturday night at 7pm.