[BC] Legal ID Question

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:00 PM 8/31/2006, Gary Zocolo wrote: -------

>Why would it be a violation?....It is the call letters followed by 
>city of License?
>
>"92Q is WQQK Hendersonville-Nashville, in to another hour of power jams, 92Q".

I believe that would be considered a dual city ID. There was one for 
a while at WVBF, located in Framingham, MA but authorized to ID as 
Framingham-Boston. If the Hendersonville  COL was part of the break 
at :49 that's not only a mis-identification, it's at the wrong time. 
In the legal ID position they used a city to which they're not 
licensed. Another mis-identification.

I doubt the FCC would care what you say at :49 but there's a specific 
ID format at the top of the hour. The ID rules have always been as 
close to the hour as possible and used to have a very specific window 
either side of the hour. A music format with music segments made up 
of short songs doesn't qualify as uninterruptable, however awesomely 
creative the segment is.

Classical music has always been allowed a lot of leeway because of 
the length of the work. I don't even think you have to ID between 
movements. I would consider a religious service to fall under the 
same guidelines.

The FCC is in serious fining mode, trying to eliminate the deficit by 
itself. I think I'd do it by the book.

Rich


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