[BC] Legal ID Question

[Steve Newman]

I believe (not sure) but the story goes that KABL (McClendon Station at the 
time) got fined for a similar offense. This was back in the late 50's early 
60's if memory serves me. I remember the I.D. well. They used to say:

This is KABL Oakland (buried and muddled) SAN FRANCISCO....In the Air 
Everywhere Over San Francisco. A friend of mine spoke to the guy who did 
those I.D.'s just before he passed away and the guy really got a kick out of 
the fact he remembered the I.D. package and the delivery.

Steve Newman
Steve Walker Productions
Opp, AL  36467


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] Legal ID Question


I believe that 550 in RI was fined in the '70's.
They had a jingle that said:

WGNG  pawtucket(barely audible) RHODE ISLAND!!!

-D

------ Original Message ------
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From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: RE: [BC] Legal ID Question

Then there are the creative, but perfectly legal IDs:

KBJR-TV in Superior, WI, across the water from the more desirable Duluth,
MN, used
to ID as "KBJR-TV 6, Superior television for the port cities."

The old WMJW is Magee, MS, which operated in the Jackson market, used to
hide the
legal ID in the weather.  "Current WMJW Magee temperate is 75, in Jackson
it's
77 at Magic 107.5."  This ran at about :50.  At the top-of-the-hour they ran
some-
thing else that sounded like it coulda been an ID, but mentioned only
Jackson.
To me, :50 doesn't meet the "as close as possible to the top of the hour"
test,
but I've never seen anybody fined for it.

In fact, in 34 years in broadcasting, I've only seen one station EVER fined
for
ID violations, and that was KBOT(FM) Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.  They were
hit
with a $5000 fine last year for airing a "promotional announcement" in place
of a Legal ID for a 3-month period in 2003.  They said it was "inadvertent."

LF

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