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I deleted the Trivia section as per your request. [[User:Vaoverland|Vaoverland]] 09:49, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC) |
I deleted the Trivia section as per your request. [[User:Vaoverland|Vaoverland]] 09:49, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC) |
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The article says: "The FCC allows FM and TV stations under common ownership with a three-letter AM or FM '''in the same market''' to use five-letter (three plus "-FM" or "-TV" suffix) callsigns" (emphasis added). I think that the "in the same market" limitation is either no longer applicable or there are exceptions, such as KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and KCBS (AM) and KCBS-FM in San Francisco. |
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Does this article serve any useful purpose that is not better set out in callsign? I just corrected two fundamental errors here that I had already fixed in callsign months ago. I think a merger is indicated. 18.26.0.18 04:53, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
"Callsign" versus "call sign"
A recent edit did a search-and-replace of "call sign" for "callsign" throughout the article. I do not think this is the Wikipedia way; either form is acceptable, so editors should not change an article from the form with which it was written. (For the same reason I'm not going to change it back.) The same edit also changed "initialism" into "initialization" so it may just be a bad spell-checker run amok. My personal preference is for one word, "callsign", but the FCC uses "call sign" and many others use "call letters" or just "calls". 18.26.0.18 03:54, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
RE: call sign vs callsign, may have done this while using a spell checking program. My main purpose was writing some articles in individual radios stations. Also, whenever I encounter an Americanism of the spelling of a word, I try to leave it alone. I have no problem with you changing it back if I inadvertently did that. If so, I apologize. I wish the ieSpell program was better able to adjust to this. Vaoverland 04:01, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
I deleted the Trivia section as per your request. Vaoverland 09:49, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
The article says: "The FCC allows FM and TV stations under common ownership with a three-letter AM or FM in the same market to use five-letter (three plus "-FM" or "-TV" suffix) callsigns" (emphasis added). I think that the "in the same market" limitation is either no longer applicable or there are exceptions, such as KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and KCBS (AM) and KCBS-FM in San Francisco.