Station Identification

The FCC requires each station to make identification announcements, called legal IDs, at specific times during the day. Those times are: 1) at the beginning and end of each broadcast day and 2) hourly – as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in the programming. This could be at the end of a piece of music, between plays in a football game, and so forth. The official legal staion ID must contain the following elements: the station’s call letters, followed by the city of license: “KBPS, Portland”. Do not, even as a joke, identify the station with fake call letters, or another station’s call letters.