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1. A frequency designation for use by a radio or television station by a broadcasting regulator. More commonly associated with television, see television channel. 2. A common brand for a television station or said station's respective news service (ex: Channel 4 (disambiguation) and Channel Four News). 3.
Broadcast call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to radio stations and television stations. While broadcast radio stations will often brand themselves with plain-text names, identities such as " cool FM ", " rock 105" or "the ABC network" are not globally unique.
AM, FM, TV and shortwave broadcasting stations can request their own call letters, as long as they are unique. The FCC policy covering broadcasting stations limits them to call signs that start with a "K" or a "W", with "K" call signs generally reserved for stations west of the Mississippi River, and "W" limited to stations east of the river.
Organized broadcasting began in the U.S. in the early 1920s on the AM band — FM and television did not exist yet. Initially most broadcasting stations were assigned three-letter calls; however, a switch was made in April 1922 to primarily four-letter calls, after the number of stations had increased into the hundreds.
Fox College Hoops (also known as Fox CBB, or Fox Primetime Hoops for Saturday primetime games and Fox College Basketball Friday for Friday primetime games [1]) is the branding used for Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball for Fox, FS1 and FS2.
United States AM stations never have a suffix, and FM and TV stations generally have a suffix only if they share (or once shared) their call sign with another station in a different broadcast band. All digital television and FM stations in Canada are suffixed. All stations in Mexico, including AM stations, are suffixed.
Station identification (ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or network ID). This may be to ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to television broadcasting: Television broadcasting: form of broadcasting in which a television signal is transmitted by radio waves from a terrestrial (Earth based) transmitter of a television station to TV receivers having an antenna.