{"id":569,"date":"2011-05-09T05:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=569"},"modified":"2011-05-09T05:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:57:17","slug":"new-feature-call-sign-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"New Feature &#8211; Call Sign History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost nobody will care about it, but the &#8220;streaming-schedule&#8221; page for a station now includes the call sign history of the &#8220;facility&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/johngalt.streamingradioguide.com\/streaming-schedule.php?station=WJOE&amp;service=FM\">Example<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the way the FCC tries to organize things, a radio\/TV station is a transmitter at a specific location with a certain permitted operations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Call Sign changes are when the call sign assigned to a facility changes.<\/p>\n<p>A call sign can move between facilities without necessarily creating a new facility (owners often switch the call signs on two stations they own)<\/p>\n<p>A station can change its operating parameters as long as it doesn&#8217;t physically move.<\/p>\n<p>An inactive facility may have no call sign at all.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC only has computerized data back to 1979 &#8211; but you will find some examples where a really old station has had its original license data entered by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost nobody will care about it, but the &#8220;streaming-schedule&#8221; page for a station now includes the call sign history of the &#8220;facility&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Example In the way the FCC tries to organize things, a radio\/TV station is a transmitter at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}