Just caught word that we will soon have Korean radio on 680 in Atlanta. Could be as soon as 9a tomorrow morning. Woohoo, right?
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Just caught word that we will soon have Korean radio on 680 in Atlanta. Could be as soon as 9a tomorrow morning. Woohoo, right?
WCNN North AtlantaYou mean 790?
680 is 680 The Fan... WCNN Atlanta
WCNN North Atlanta
Dead air right now....OMG I am getting so excited....Any change in this dull market is a plus, lol.
Yes, but that's 680. You probably meant 790 because 790 is WQXI which used to be 790 The Zone
I was making a comment about 680's city of license that no longer exists (at least not under the "North Atlanta" name). That's a running peeve of mine.
Although to the Dickeys "WCNN North Atlanta" probably sounds better than "WCNN Brookhaven".
Perhaps it is easier to change a city of license today than in years past but the FCC, in general, does not make it easy.
I was manager of a station that was licensed to a city that was absorbed by a neighboring city many years before. We had to get all manner of documents showing that the change had occurred, and then had to present a certification of the documents and other evidence. It took nearly a year and was complicated by the need for engineering studies showing city grade over the "center" of the new city of license.
I know of stations that, facing the costs and the hassle, have kept a city of license to a non-existent town for decades... in one case for over 60 years after the town ceased to exist.
The process is much simpler. However, there must be a station in the market to fill the COL void. If there isn't one, that is where is get complex.
It is usually done these days for engineering purposes (allocation changes, or new tower location) . The listener really doesn't notice or cares about what you say at the top of the hour.
I guess with PPM it really doesn't matter, and several stations bury it in a liner.
WGST used to do the same thing when they were LMAing WCHK before Jacor bought it; they would have a quiet "WCHK-FM Canton" before the loud TOH ID, eventually moving to "WGST Atlanta/Canton".
I never understood that. Why even bother with the "Canton" reference at part of the TOH ID? Since you're already doing the legal portion, hiding WCHK-FM Canton, why mention it again? It should have just been "WGST Atlanta." But then again, they were not the brightest at times....
North Atlanta was disincorporated in 1965 and didn't come back as Brookhaven until a couple years ago...so they've gone over the half-century mark. It's even more interesting considering that WRNG (now WCNN) didn't go on the air until 1968...so they've always had a nonexistent city as their city of license.
But then again, WPZE has a CoL of Mableton, which isn't incorporated either, and never has been. But then again again, somebody tried to move or start a radio station with a CoL of Sandy Springs, back before Sandy Springs was incorporated, and one of the reasons that the FCC denied the application was because Sandy Springs didn't "exist".
They did the "WGST Atlanta/Canton" after WCHK-FM changed to WGST-FM.
Not sure about this, but was that even a legal legal ID? Shouldn't it have been something like "WGST Atlanta WGST-FM Canton"? My understanding is you have to have the "-FM" if it's part of your callsign (sometimes it is, sometimes it's not), and you can't say ANYTHING between your callsign and CoL.