[BC] Christmas Special Authority?

[Douglas Pritchett]

Were there spots and such? Maybe someone was "practicing", maybe making 
an aircheck.
I used to cheif a 3kw FM in Arkansas. The AM was a daytimer, the FM went 
down at midnight.  We could always tell when one of the FM jocks was 
looking for a job. Said jock would come by the station about 1am and 
create audition tapes in the FM studio complete with music, spots, 
promos, and ABC news. Jocks didn't realize that our old Sparta exciter 
would not mute when the Gates FM1-B went off. Exciter covered half the 
town........and the FM PD was a night owl.

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I'm Douglas B. Pritchett
and I approved this message.
Fort Wayne, IN
WBZQ1300 at verizon.net


Tom Taggart wrote:

>Friend of mine likes to listen to his old "All American Five" when he is puttering around on something in his basement at night.
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>Last night, around 7~8, well after dark, he heard WBKZ, Jefferson (Athens) Georgia completely overriding WCBS, the normal station heard here in southern Ohio.
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>They were running live programming, not automated. So somebody  didn't just "forget" to turn the carrier off. 
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>FCC CDBS says 5 kw-Non-D Day.  No nighttime power. 
>FCC handing out special Christmas STA's now? And what is the going gratuity rate to get one?
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>(Not the only daytimer left on frequently, he frequently hears  WXLZ, St. Pauls, VA in the evening over WRVA, as well as something behind 670 Chicago and 770 New York.  Some of the latter signals may be Cuban.)
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