Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prefix '520' For Los Angeles Radio Stations Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 89 16:31:07 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 396, message 4 of 8 In article Mike Morris writes: >>Also, most people are familiar with this service as radio stations >>often use this service -- especially stations that have large broadcast >>areas. I remember growing up and when the radio station would have >>a contest, they would list six or seven numbers that listeners could >>call into to win. While each of these numbers was from a different >>geographical area, they all terminated at the radio station. I was paging through the Criss Cross Directory yesterday, and discovered that in the 408 area, the 575 prefix is used only for radio stations, and only for call-in's as well. It doesn't seem to matter where in San Jose the station is located, or if it's located out of area. My guess is that this is done so that massive promotions won't take out residence and business service when the number of incoming calls skyrockets. I remember when WNBC in New York went "Total Request!!!!!" Businesses and residents in mid-Manhattan were out of phone service, as CIrcle-6 was "tubed". (An air traffic control expression which stems from going 'down the tubes.') -edg Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg