I noticed a few months back that WIRK has started adding "-FM" to their legal ID. Does anyone know why they are doing this? Has an AM WIRK signed on somewhere?
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WIRK's Legal ID
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ScottBurns said:
According to the FCC database, the call letters "WIRK-FM" have been the assigned call letters since 10-02-1978, so FM 107.9 should have been identifying itself as "WIRK-FM West Palm Beach" all along every hour since October 02, 1978.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...all_hist.pl?Facility_id=1918&Callsign=WIRK-FM
Interesting. I'd say that the "-FM" was added to the ID sometime during the summer.
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Last I heard my local Clasica 92 WCMQ Hialeah, they ID as "WCMQ-FM". WCMQ (AM), last I recall, was on AM 1700 maybe up to 1998. I don't know any other WCMQ (AM) now. I am not sure if a station with an -FM suffix actually *has* to surrender the suffix.
WIRK has been teasing online (at least thru hdradio.com or a similar site) to add HD, I believe. Possibly they are easing into an ID (when they add it) as "WIRK-FM and WIRK-HD1."
Dunno for sure.
cd
WIRK has been teasing online (at least thru hdradio.com or a similar site) to add HD, I believe. Possibly they are easing into an ID (when they add it) as "WIRK-FM and WIRK-HD1."
Dunno for sure.
cd
cd637299 said:
The license is for WCMQ-FM. It's likely they never requested a call change to the simpler WCMQ when the AM calls were no longer in use.
In cases where an AM station shares its base call letters with an FM, TV or both, the AM always carries the base set with the FM or TV adding the suffix "FM" or "TV".
Ex: WIRK(AM) WIRK-FM and WIRK-TV. The AM is simply WIRK while the FM is WIRK with the added suffix "FM" to identify the FM as a seperate audio service than the AM. It works the same with TV as in WIRK-TV. If no AM service carries the same base call letters, then the FM or the TV may use the base as WIRK with no suffix added.
In the case of WIRK (AM) 1290 and WIRK-FM 107.9, when the AM changed call letters from WIRK to WBZT and now WJNO, the FM remained WIRK-FM. The FM does not automatically become WIRK simply because the AM no longer shares the same call letter base. WIRK-FM may apply to change its call letters to simply WIRK provided no other station has been assigned WIRK such as another AM or a TV. However, whenever more than one service shares the same call letter base, and one service is a Standard Broadcast service, the AM always, without exception, has the base call letters. I. E., there is no WIRK-AM but rather any AM station with the WIRK call letters would be simply WIRK.
Remember that WIRK, WIRK-FM and WIRK-TV are not the same call letters. These are three completely seperate call letter combinations that share the same call letter base but not the same set of call letters.
Ex: WIRK(AM) WIRK-FM and WIRK-TV. The AM is simply WIRK while the FM is WIRK with the added suffix "FM" to identify the FM as a seperate audio service than the AM. It works the same with TV as in WIRK-TV. If no AM service carries the same base call letters, then the FM or the TV may use the base as WIRK with no suffix added.
In the case of WIRK (AM) 1290 and WIRK-FM 107.9, when the AM changed call letters from WIRK to WBZT and now WJNO, the FM remained WIRK-FM. The FM does not automatically become WIRK simply because the AM no longer shares the same call letter base. WIRK-FM may apply to change its call letters to simply WIRK provided no other station has been assigned WIRK such as another AM or a TV. However, whenever more than one service shares the same call letter base, and one service is a Standard Broadcast service, the AM always, without exception, has the base call letters. I. E., there is no WIRK-AM but rather any AM station with the WIRK call letters would be simply WIRK.
Remember that WIRK, WIRK-FM and WIRK-TV are not the same call letters. These are three completely seperate call letter combinations that share the same call letter base but not the same set of call letters.
Good wirk, Mark!
ai4i said:
Both stations would be required to change call letters. I. E., for an AM to become WIRK, an existing WIRK (FM) or WIRK (TV) would be required to change its call letters from WIRK to WIRK-FM or WIRK-TV freeing WIRK to move from the FM (or TV) to the AM. This is because the FCC will not issue the call letters WIRK-AM. However, in the case of the existing WIRK-FM, the call letters WIRK are already free for use by either an AM or a TV.
Correct. The incumbent user of a base callsign (WIRK-FM, in this case) has to grant permission for someone else to use the base call somewhere else. So even though it's "WIRK-FM" and not just "WIRK" at 107.9, I can't take an AM station somewhere else and call it "WIRK" unless I have the approval of WIRK-FM to do so.
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