Talk:Station identification/Archive 1

Taxi Drivers and CB Radios
Does anyone know about this? When I was a taxi driver, the dispatcher said she was required by law to read out the cab company's call sign any time she said the time of day over the air. Is this required by law? --HillbillyProfane (talk) 21:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

May be worth exploring a variety of styles of TV 'idents' - as opposed to focusing on the America-centric imposing of station identification. 82.41.145.234 17:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Since they are really a different thing to this, I've put a stub at Television ident. Q4 13:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Hmm... I agree, I'm not sure that the US usage of Ident is quite the same as Television ident which is really mainly a branding feature. Should we remove the merge notice from these articles?. -- Lochaber 14:58, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree, provided that a reference to the Television Ident article is provided in this article, and/or a disambiguation notice is placed at the top of this article. -- Christopher Denman 12:18, 04 Nov 2005 (GMT)

Can anyone give me the FCC Regulation that states that a station must announce their call sign every hour?
 * It's Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Section 73.1201 (47 C.F.R. sec. 73.1201). --Metropolitan90 15:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * This article does need a bit of cleanup and some focus and a major re-write. I am considering it, but I may throw the baby out with the bathwater. TV Newser 05:20, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge fallout and other issues
In retrospect I don't think the merge with television ident was properly handled, and possibly not even really a good idea. The Europe section of the merged article deals entirely with television and has almost nothing to say about two-way radio, broadcast radio, or really anything other than on-air identification of television stations. That section of the article needs to be greatly expanded. When you get right down to it, this article needs a tremendous amount of help and television ident may need to be broken out on its own again when the smoke clears. Anyone know enough about EU communications regulations? (will add to WP:RFE just to be on the safe side) Haikupoet 17:54, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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Question on "sign on"/"sign off"
Are there equivalent (i.e. more detailed than hourly) station IDs for 24-hour stations, and what times would they be? --Random832 (contribs) 13:18, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * There is a sign-on message, once daily, although its position in the schedule tends to be arbitrary. CJBC radio operates 24/7, and the pattern there is that the sign-on info (O Canada, identification of the station as a Radio-Canada owned-and-operated station, contact info, a claim to be beginning a new broadcast day, various disclaimers about being licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, list of individual rebroadcast frequencies in various cities, «...et nous vous souhaitons une bonne journée à notre antenne») is broadcast once a day at an arbitrary fixed time (I think it was five in the morning). I'd expect similar patterns exist in other countries - except Himno Nacional Mexicano would replace O Canada on the Tijuana station, for instance. Effectively, the station signs on without ever having signed off the previous day. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 02:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Background
I think it should be mentioned that the trend in idents up to the early 90s was ususally a dark (sometimes even black) background and a logo. Later, backgrounds in light colors started to prevail. That should be mentioned. I think the purpose why the backgrounds were dark initially is that white logos on a dark background appeared better on non-color TV sets than black/grey logos on a white background. 78.130.136.199 (talk) 10:14, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Europe
I am thinking of renaming the Europe section to United kingdom seeing as how all of the stations are based in the U.K. What does anyone else think? Hmyt (talk) 15:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Digital onscreen graphics not popular in U.S.?
I disagree with the statement that DOGs or watermarks are not popular in the US. It seems to me like just about every station uses them. TWCarlson (talk) 15:11, 27 April 2011 (UTC)