CD101 to go exclusive on 102.5 FM on Monday Dec. 13

[OhioMediaWatch]

From the Asset Purchase Agreement (attachment 5) of the Voluntary Assignment Application
BALH-20100630BQB:

Seller shall not be authorized to use the words '101" or "101.1"
in any of its branding or business ventures after Closing;

Would this prevent CD101 from using the "CD101" part in their current "CD101 at 102.5" branding of the station after the sale of 101.1 to tOSU?

Sounds like it does, from the "in any of its branding" wording...note the "in".

Indeed, it was added to the contract, it would appear for the sole reason of legally preventing WWCD from hanging onto the 101 branding (presumably to avoid confusion, though PPM and the different formats would alleviate much of that).

Note that the "WWCD" calls are NOT included in the prohibition.

[gabigley1]

Note that the "WWCD" calls are NOT included in the prohibition.

WCVZ 102.5 has an LMA with CD101 and it looks like WCVZ will not change call letters to WWCD any time soon.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=61230&Callsign=WCVZ

So, any reference it uses to "WWCD" will not be it's legal call sign. Any ideas on how their new new top of the hour IDs will sound as of Monday
on 102.5?

[Allfirdup]

Note that the "WWCD" calls are NOT included in the prohibition.

WCVZ 102.5 has an LMA with CD101 and it looks like WCVZ will not change call letters to WWCD any time soon.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=61230&Callsign=WCVZ

So, any reference it uses to "WWCD" will not be it's legal call sign. Any ideas on how their new new top of the hour IDs will sound as of Monday
on 102.5?

Why do you assume they won't change calls just because its part of a LMA

[Allfirdup]

101.1 will become WOSA to be paired with WOSB in Marion


102.5 will become WWCD CD1025

[gabigley1]

Why do you assume they won't change calls just because its part of a LMA

It won't happen on Monday and ideally that would be the best time.

[Allfirdup]

Why do you assume they won't change calls just because its part of a LMA

It won't happen on Monday and ideally that would be the best time.

Not that it really matters, to anyone other than readers on this board, but im sure that the paperwork to change the calls was filled out long ago, and can be changed when they want, my guess would be either Monday or Wednesday.

[OhioMediaWatch]

gabigley, that link you put up means nothing.  It is the current and historic calls of the facility.

Go here and put in the WWCD calls:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/callsign/mainch.pl

That's where you'll see the request.  Right now, the only thing in there is the existing 101.1 facility, since that's the only thing that can be in there right now (the station exists).

Mr. Vaughan won't be able to change the calls on 102.5 until they're off 101.1, which they will be as soon as tOSU closes and takes over (they've already filed a "pending sale" request for WOSA).

So,

1) The 101.1 sale closes, and it becomes WOSA, as already requested.
2) That makes WWCD(FM) available.
3) WHIZ Media Group/Southeast Ohio Broadcasting files for the WWCD calls on 102.5, on behalf of its LMA operator, Fun With Radio/Roger Vaughan.

Any other speculation is just silly.

[Tri-State Media]

Basically, OhioMediaWatch is correct. WHIZ cannot use the WWCD calls until they're freed up when the sale closes and WOSU turns 101.1 into WOSA.

But...who's to say they can't still call WCVZ "CD102.5" even before changing calls? Which, on Monday would mean the legal sounds something like: "You're listening to CD102.5, WCVZ, Baltimore/Columbus".

[OhioMediaWatch]

Correct, TSMW, and in fact, the sales agreement will prohibit WWCD from using "101" or "101.1" after the sale of that frequency closes.  Look it up, it's in the link in this thread.

So, when tOSU takes over the new WOSA - presumably on Wednesday, per all the reports and WOSU's own press release, give or take a lawyer or two or a broken pen - WWCD will be forced to convert to "CD102.5".

They can still relinquish 101.1 on Monday and still call themselves "CD101 @ 102.5" right up until 101.1's sale closes...which, given that WWCD's owner says they want to make the change "gently" for listeners, they will probably do, even though listeners won't even fnid alt-rock music on 101.1 on Monday.

The "gently" line comes courtesy of an August article in Columbus Business First, which has a lot of information we didn't have otherwise.

http://bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2010/08/02/story12.html

“Our broadcast goal is to be everywhere and on all devices,” Fun With Radio owner Roger Vaughan said in an e-mail. “The simulcast is transitioning our listeners as gently as is possible to our new home. We think it’s working great so far.”

Look!  This is back all the way from August!  Roger wasn't abducted by aliens after al! 

It even quotes WHIZ Media Group president Hank Littick, but note what both men don't answer:

WHIZ President Hank Littick said he thinks WWCD’s format is a better fit for the 102.5 signal, formerly occupied by country music station WCVZ. He declined to characterize his group’s partnership with Fun With Radio and Vaughan did not respond to the question.

Again, this is information that was out there in August.  I have no idea why it didn't show up in a Google search before now.  Maybe Google's ever-expanding indexing only now picked up Columbus Business First.  Maybe Roger Vaughan paid off Google so we radio geeks wouldn't know the truth. 

The article repeats what was linked here in the FCC agreement:

But the WOSU agreement prohibits it from using the 101 or 101.1 name after the deal closes.

I found this article from an update posted by CBF on Friday.

http://bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2010/12/cd101-ready-to-complete-move-to-1025.html

Nothing we don't already have in this thread.

We could have saved Mr. Bigley a LOT of typing had we found this earlier. 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Oops...here's the correct link for the FCC's Call Sign Query (for some reason, the direct link I gave does not work):

http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/callsign/main.html

Click on the "QUERY" button, put in WOSA, and you'll see this:

Call Sign WOSA is not available.
A request for WOSA dated 08/03/2010 has been filed.
NOTE: Our records don't contain the LICENSEE/PERMITTEE information about WOSA.
Please contact the FCC for assistance.

That's because the request wasn't filed by the licensee...it was filed by tOSU back in August, and a list out at the time noted it was pending its takeover of the current WWCD.  Incoming licensees do this all the time, and each call sign change list usually has one or two of them.