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WSBE changes call letters to WPVD

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ssetta

So when I turned on WSBE this morning, something caught me by surprise. When I saw the station ID, it said WPVD-TV. I had no idea of this. Did anybody else know about this? It would make sense if it just happened today, since it is the first of the month. *rabbit rabbit*
 
ssetta said:
So when I turned on WSBE this morning, something caught me by surprise. When I saw the station ID, it said WPVD-TV. I had no idea of this. Did anybody else know about this? It would make sense if it just happened today, since it is the first of the month. *rabbit rabbit*
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Ocean State Media (the group that owns WSBE/WPVD) changed the callsign today, I think to match with their sister radio stations WPVD/1290 AM and WPVD-FM/103.7 FM.
 
alg2468 said:
The new call letters also avoid confusion with WSBK-TV.
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If the two stations coexisted with those calls for 59 years, I'm pretty sure there wasn't any real-world confusion. Especially since neither one has branded with its call letters in the last decade, if not longer.

(This gets to one of my little Wikipedia annoyances - whoever decided that any article with callsigns in it has to include a "not to be confused with WXXX" where one letter is transposed.)
 


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