To cut costs. Its parent company Bell Canada announced last Friday it will cut 4800 jobs.
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Would be great to see such diversity added to the Australian market.
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I was flicking through US radio stations in the iHeart Radio app the other night and streamed a few (using a VPN⌠ahem).
Came across a Classic Hits station called 3WS (94.5 in Pittsburgh PA).
Was very surprised to see an Australian style callsign used in America.
There is also a Triple M over there too! See below, also a rock station by the looks of it (didnât listen to it though).
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I bet their Triple M would be a better rock station, which is depressing.
I think the 3WS is actually WWSW as the callsign. Or it was originally. WWSW is quite a mouthful 
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I just checked⌠Youâre close, itâs WWSW, I didnât think that it could be something like that, I just thought to myself someone there has taken some inspiration from our simple AM callsigns!
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Triple GWN of the 90âs would fit in well with that logo, not far off with the orbital oval
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A WWOS would be interesting if sport format, probably nothing like Wide World of Sport on 9
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There are at least five stations in Canada using the 2Day FM callsign - Cranbrook, British Columbia, Grande Prairie and Lethbridge, Alberta and Niagara Falls and Stratford, Ontario.
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There are at least a few that use Fox as their on air ID, though Iâm not sure whether Melbourne started using it first or not.
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Gee from what Iâve heard on NPR they would be classified as âcentristâ here. They are way more centrist than ABC here.
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Berliner was suspended by the network for five days, starting Friday, for violating the networkâs policy against doing work outside the organization without first getting permission.
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Similarly, WWDE in Norfolk, Virginia brands itself as â2WDâ.
Mind you, these are just how they brand themselves; they arenât legal call signs and werenât necessarily inspired by Australian call signs - itâs just that multiple Ws can be a mouthful. (The station that has the call letters WWWW brands itself as âW4â).
In the US and Canada, the official call letters must be given at least once per hour near the top of the hour, but a station can brand itself the rest of the hour however it wants.
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Audacy is winding down one of its news radio stations in New York, WCBS 880, laying off their entire newsroom. They also own the competing station, 1010 WINS.
The frequency will be relaunched as ESPN New York (and callsign renamed to WHSQ), under an LMA with Good Karma Brands. The latter will leave their current station, WEPN-FM, as a result.
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First: One myth needs to be put to rest. Audacy is NOT currently bankrupt. All its creditors were on board with the reorganisation and the bankruptcy court signed off on it months ago. The last step in the process is FCC approval, which is being held up because of political concerns over Audacyâs current majority stockholder, George Soros.
There is an argument to be made that a format in which a substantial number of people are interested is, per se, in the public interest. Think about that for moment, and then think about the alternative. Would we want government involved in deciding what formats a radio station is allowed to air? In any case, the FCC stopped enforcing its former quotas (for lack of a better term) for news and public affairs decades ago, probably for fear that those requirements would eventually run afoul of the First Amendment.
And in return for abandoning the old ascertainment requirements and the Fairness Doctrine, the FCC ordered each station to place in its public file (now online, for all, including the FCC, to see) a quarterly report of local issues and the stationâs programming which is responsive to those issues.
Some see these reports as something of a joke, because how the local issues are determined is up to the licensee, but at least it shows that theyâre doing something along those lines.
AndâŚletâs remember that Audacyâs financial failures were not entirely its fault. They were victims of what might be termed a perfect storm. At the same time they were acquiring the CBS stations group mass media advertising took a substantial hit from which they may well never recover. This problem is not even in the same footy ground as, for example, the demise of the RKO General chain, when its parent company General Tire was convicted of bribery and the FCC forced RKO to sell off its broadcast properties.
One last point: An LMA does NOT absolve any station owner of its responsibilities under FCC rules. Audacy still controls the license for 880 kHz and is solely answerable to the FCC for all content aired on WHSQ. The FCC has, in the past, come down hard on stations programmed under LMAâs which have not exerted proper control of their content. Yes, the FCC cannot continuously monitor stations operating under an LMA, and thus enforcement of the rules on control of content would probably be spotty at best.
Whereâd this come from?
WCBS-AMâs format change is mentioned in this thread.
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