[BC] 2 KYDS stations?

[Cowboy]

On Friday 27 February 2009 08:05 pm, Tom wrote:
>  IIRC, the FCC frowns deeply upon unauthorized use of unassigned call 
>  signs of any ilk.

 What they frown upon, is the use of any call sign
 not assigned to that station.
 That's not the case here.

>  Bowen, Jonathan wrote:
>  >
>  > Because Adventures in Odyssey is using the name for a fictitious
>  > radio station does that mean they can use those call signs even though
>  > they are not associated with the station KYDS? They do announce in the
>  > program things like this is so and so reporting for KYDS radio.
>  > I was just curious what the rules where for the use of station IDs.    

 There are rules regarding station ID's, but this case would depend
 on context.
 If the fictitious call could be misconstrued from content as being THE
 call sign of the station carrying the show, there could be a problem.
 If not, then it's no different than "Watch WKRP in Cincinnati, on FOX-4"
 or referring to General Motors Corporation as GMC.

 Picking a "call sign" out of the air for a fictitious station as part of
 program content, then later discovering that some station somewhere
 actually has that call sign, I don't see how that could be construed
 as a violation of a station identification rule.

-- 
Cowboy