Locally and in my travels, I have listened to several translators or stations that are part of a network that includes translators, and all seem to have different ID rules. The New England Public Radio network, with WFCR Amherst, MA, as its flagship, identifies all of its stations, including translators, by call and location at the top of the hour. Vermont Public Radio's VPR Classical network identifies all of its full-power affiliates by call and location, but only identifies the translators by frequency and location: "94.3 Brattleboro," for example, as opposed to "88.1 WNCH Norwich." And WMNR Monroe, CT, identifies its three full-power affiliates and some of its translators by call and location, but doesn't mention its 91.9 translators -- W220CE Middlefield and W220CH West Hartford -- at all, not even by frequency/location, at any time.
I note on radio-locator.com that W220CE and W220CH are listed as translators of WGRS Guilford rather than of WMNR, but I've listened to WGRS itself and it uses the ID package that comes down the line from WMNR, not one of its own.
So who is doing it right and who is doing it wrong, and does the FCC care?
I note on radio-locator.com that W220CE and W220CH are listed as translators of WGRS Guilford rather than of WMNR, but I've listened to WGRS itself and it uses the ID package that comes down the line from WMNR, not one of its own.
So who is doing it right and who is doing it wrong, and does the FCC care?
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