I'm playing with radio station history again and I'm doing battle with myself about how to document station swaps. I'll give two examples.
Example #1: A few years back, KLOC/920/Ceres CA format moved to KVIN/1390/Turlock CA, and the KVIN format moved over to KLOC. The call letters swapped with the format change. From a listener's perspective, that is a frequency change and the city change is transparent to the listener. >From the FCC perspective, its two call letter changes for two separate facilities and who cares about the formats. Example #2: Recently, KERN/1410/Bakersfield CA swapped formats and call letters with KERI/1180/Wasco CA. As with example #1, the listener finds their favorite station on a new frequency, and the city change is transparent. The FCC sees it as two call letter changes for two facilities. I'm on the fence and looking for opinions on how this should be properly documented. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
