Isn't this illegal?

[OvenMaster]

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie

I'd be surprised if that were the case. Look very closely at the 4 or 5 second spot at the top of the hour in a local break. They'll say CBS3 in the audio, but supered very small at the bottom of the screen it will have the call letters, the station allocation(s) and city of liscence. Or at least it should!

Take care,

Ed

I did this, this very morning, even videotaped it and paused to look. Call letters? Check. Cities of license? Check. Allocation? BZZZT!
I remember reading somewhere that approximately 90-95% of all TV households in my area subscribe to cable TV, so I'm not terribly surprised ch.67's not mentioned anywhere except the website:
http://www.cbs3online.com/inside/about
Tom

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by colortrakker

As I remember from my SBE training, a legal ID is truly legal if:

- The call letters and city of license are represented in either audio or video form

Wonder if they could use Morse code for the ID. didahdidit dahdidit......

Or phonetics: "This is Whiskey Charlie Bravo Sierra New York"

[3Guncolor]

There is no need to list channel number as part of the ID only city and call letters. If they add the channel etc.. it has to be before or after the ID.. same goes for radio.

[Chad Hauris]

FM translator stations can use a morse code ID. The translator ID's must be done 3 times a day and can be regular voice ID's but they can also be in code...in the case of code the ID must be hourly.

here is some info on the legal ID's:

http://www.bostonradio.org/legal-id.html

[old_tv_nut]

If you think about it, the viewers should know what channel they are tuned to, so announcing it would be redundant.

For digital TV broadcasting, the RF channel is being hidden and electronically redirected so that stations can keep the ID's they have used for branding, even though their allocated RF channel will change.

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by 3Guncolor

There is no need to list channel number as part of the ID only city and call letters. If they add the channel etc.. it has to be before or after the ID.. same goes for radio.

You're right. We don't have the channel in the legal. When we added the HD transmitter, however, we did add HD 35 to the ID. I was told we had to do that. Hum....

Ed

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

If you think about it, the viewers should know what channel they are tuned to, so announcing it would be redundant.

Not at all! First of all, if you usually watched on cable, you'd want to know where to find the channel on a portable set. If you were from out of town, (like myself) you would have no idea that "CW 6" is actually channel 61... I'm watching on an older RCA set with a varactor tuner that requires you to set all the UHF channels.

What about those of us who like to DX?

I hate that cable TV has become the "standard". Free OTA broadcasting is doomed, and we still have the commercials!!!