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"WTTG DC": Is that a legal ID?

I would think they would use "WTTG Washington" on the hour (generally as a line of text as many stations do), and use "WTTG DC" only during promos and news.
 
ixnay said:
Take a look at this logo at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTTG .

I thought WTTG's legal ID had to be "WTTG Washington".

Someone please explain? ???

ixnay
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It does; what you're seeing isn't a legal ID.

However, the legal ID must be either visual or aural. You don't have to do both. It is very possible they're saying "WTTG Washington" aurally in which case it doesn't really matter what's in the video.

It's also very possible the logo WTTG runs for legal IDs is not the one you see on the Wikipedia page. There are two logos (4-1 and 4-2) on the Wikipedia page for the station I work for -- neither is a legal ID (neither contains our call letters), and neither is the one we use on the air for legal IDs.
 
As long as the station uses the callsign/city of license once per hour on all subchannels in visual or audio form, they are in compliance. For example, WXIA/Atlanta does not use the COL on their former WeatherPlus channel, and is using WXIA-DT rather than their assigned WXIA-TV, so they have been in violation for a while now (callsign rules changed with the June 12th analog shutdown).

Outside of that...the FCC has no jursidication on how a channel brands, as long as the branding itself is not indecent or obscene.
 
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