[BC] Legal ID Question

[Glen Kippel]

ISTM that William Shakespeare said something about this -- "much ado about
nothing."  Family Radio sold the FM and used a portion of the proceeds to
buy an AM.  The FM call sign became what the new owners wanted, and the KECR
letters transferred over to the AM.

Family Radio, in recent years, has sold off their FMs in the commercial band
to come up with operating revenue, since most all of their supporters have
died off.  Remember, not too long ago they sold their flagship station,
KEAR, and bought KFRC, which now has the KEAR call sign.  No big deal.

GK

On 8/26/06, Phil Alexander <dynotherm at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On 26 Aug 2006 at 15:11, Larry Fuss wrote:
>
> > > When Family acquired the 910 in Lakeside, they already owned the FM
> >  with the call KECR, so the call sign issued to the AM was, in fact,
> > KECR-AM.
> >  THAT legal ID was KECR and KECR-AM, ElCajon, or KECR-AM and KECR,
> ElCajon.
> >  The call sign for the FM remained unchanged.
> >
> > There is not an -AM suffix.  If they owned KECR(FM) and acquired an AM,
> the
> > AM could become KECR as long as the FM became KECR-FM.  That's the way
> the
> > rule works.
>
> It would depend on what was written on the license. If they issued a valid
> license (mistakenly) the call would stand unless some later corrective
> action was taken. A license is the binding document that establishes many
> things, and it would not be the first time that one was issued
> incorrectly.
> Although I don't know of any six letter AM calls, if they did that, then
> the
> ID "KECR-AM" would have been legal.
>
>
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