WYSP Call Letter Already Taken

[jaydog]

So according to the FCC.gov/mb call sign web site A request for WYSP dated 09/02/2011 has been filed
by TELIKOJA EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING INC. OF SCRANTON, PA. So did this company take these calls so if CBS ever wanted them back they would have to pay??? I say smart move for TEB.

 

[danikayser84]

Telikoja also squatted "WAMO" from Pittsburgh when St Joseph Ministries bought the WAMO stations and changed them to WAOB... I believe WKQX is on a construction permit for a 95.9 somewhere rimshotting the Chicago area, too

Is call letter squatting really this common? What makes it different from parking is that a different owner ends up taking the call letters for either an unbuilt CP or a small station (for example, CBS parked WBCN in Charlotte, and WNEW in Miami I think, so no competitor could squat the calls)

 

[luperm]

Either Telikoja has an agreement with CBS, or CBS does not really care about the calls.
CBS has plenty of stations where they could have parked the calls if they were interested.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Randy Michaels "Radio-Active" owns said CP that's using the WKQX calls. As Randy is a part of "Merlin Media" that flipped Q101 to female all-news WWWN, he's basically parking the calls outside of Chicago.

I honestly thought that the WYSP calls would be parked onto another CBS station outside of Philly. Wow.

It also signifies that, should CBS acquire 106.9, we WILL see KYW-FM after all.

 

[BRUSSTAR]

The fact that CBS chose not to warehouse a set of call letters it didn't mind flushing after forty years of continuous use has nothing to do with a possible KYW-FM's going to a signal the company may not even ever own.

A bum signal, at that.