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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: K and W....nsc
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 1:35:19 PM
Remote Address: 162.255.158.94
Message ID: 304690
Parent ID: 304688
Thread ID: 304676
No. Back in the day when I was a deejay, to get your FCC licence to be a DJ, you had to get a Third Class Radiotelephone Operators Permit, along with a broadcast endorsement from the station you worked for (I still to this day have my first FCC licence, as a keepsake!). To get that you only had to know how to to cue in records (later on called "DJ mixing", thanks to rappers) and how to use those gear controlled turntables, and also to have some technical knowledge of transmitters and electronics, you had to know how to take the stations' readings of it's transmitter once a day, and know how to operate and take the station on and off the air. You might recall that back in the old days (up until around the 1990s or so), most radio stations went off the air sometime after midnight, and since I was the 8 PM to 1 AM deejay at 2 different stations back in those days, I got to do that often.... you also back then, had to read the old standard FCC statement, stating how many watts the station put out, etc, before going off the air (something else you also might remember hearing being read on the air back in the old days). When I used to do that back the early '80s at KOTO in Telluride, I would play the Beatles song "Good Night" as I read that statement. Today, I don't even think that reading is even required anymore, and again, my guess is that all stations today stay on all night long and never close down, even if only recorded music is played with no deejay to talk to you.
Today you also don't even need a FCC licence to deejay, just the radio station needs one. Things are different, as you don't cue in record anymore, either, thanks to modern day technology. My guess is today's DJs don't even know how to use an old gear controlled turntables, the ones you see rappers use today have no gear controls on them, you just spin the disc backwards to cue it, and any moron can do that.
As far as knowing about radio station call letters, I actually learned most of that back in the mid '90s when I wrote an article for a Colorado magazine about the history of local radio stations in the Colorado Sps and Denver areas. It started out simple as why the older stations, like KOA in Denver only had 3 call letters instead of the standard 4 (the reason is the same reason why some eastern stations stated with a "K", as KOA started up in 1922, back when only 3 letters were used and allowed). Before I knew it the article was about pretty much what I just wrote about in my second post in this thread, as I gathered the information on all of that and added it all in to the story. But no, back in my deejay days I knew about the Mississippi River being the dividing point as to if a station call letters started with a K or a W, but that was it.... One last note on this that I didn't mention in my other post, no, these call letters didn't start with radio stations, but with early telegraph services in the early 1900s, long before there was radio. Such telegraph services were around before that time (1800s), but to id where they were coming from, sometime around 1905 or so, they started to be given call letters, and when radio stations started up around 1920 or so, the call letters was also used for them, too.
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