Do US radio station that broadcast in Spanish have to give station identification in English?
When I was in San Diego, we were listening to the radio and then station identifcation was read in Spanish. We didn't know that it was actually a Mexican station broadcating from Tijuana to English speakers in the US. So we were wondering do Spanish language stations in the United States have to give their station identifications in English?
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Technically NO but the following information MUST be given:
See Code of Federal Regulations; 47 CFR 73.1201
Excerpt from http://www.bostonradio.org/legal-id.html
Official station identification shall consist of the station’s call letters immediately followed by the community or communities specified in its license as the station’s location: Provided, That the name of the licensee or the station’s frequency or channel number, or both, as stated on the station’s license may be inserted between the call letters and station location. No other insertion is permissible.
(a) When regularly required. Broadcast station identification announcements shall be made:
(1) At the beginning and ending of each time of operation, and
(2) hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in program offerings.
Television broadcast stations may make these announcements visually or aurally.
(b) Content.
(1) Official station identification shall consist of the station’s call letters immediately followed by the community or communities specified in its license as the station’s location: Provided, That the name of the licensee or the station’s frequency or channel number, or both, as stated on the station’s license may be inserted between the call letters and station location. No other insertion is permissible
(2) A station may include in its official station identification the name of any additional community or communities, but the community to which the station is licensed must be named first.
(c) Channel -
(1) General. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, in making the identification announcement the call letters shall be given only on the channel identified thereby.
(2) Simultaneous AM (535-1605 kHz) and AM (1605-1705 kHz) broadcasts. If the same licensee operates an AM broadcast station in the 535-1605 kHz band an AM broadcast station in the 1605-1705 kHz band with both stations licensed to the same community and simultaneously broadcasts the same programs over the facilities of both such stations, station identification may be made jointly for both stations for such periods of simultaneous operation.
(3) Satellite operation. When programming of a broadcast station is rebroadcast simultaneously over the facilities of a satellite station, the originating station may make identification announcements for the satellite station for periods of such simultaneous operation.
(i) In the case of a television broadcast station, such announcements, in addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section, shall include the number of the channel on which each station is operating.
(ii) In the case of aural broadcast stations, such announcements, in addition to the information required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section, shall include the frequency on which each station is operating.
America should be American not mexican and language should be english