Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prefix '520' For Los Angeles Radio Stations Message-ID:Date: 24 Sep 89 18:47:30 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 43 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 400, message 2 of 5 I wrote... %klb@lzaz.att.com (K.BLATTER) writes: (Regarding Foreign Exchange service) % %>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. % %LA has most of it's FM station on a 5,000' mountain so both the AM and %the FM has excellent coverage - LA county has 2 complete area codes %(818 and 213) and pieces of 2 more (714, 805). Many of the radio %station also cover portions of San Bernadino and Riverside counties %(area code 619). A while back (pre the 213-818 split) I noticed %that more and more stations were giving out 213-520 numbers for dial-in. %After the split, I noticed that they were giving out the same number %as "dial 213-520-xxxx or 818-520-xxxx". % %Well, to make a long story short there is only one 520 exchange, but it %can be accessed from both 818 and 213. % %I was told it was done at the (collective) stations request to lower the %number of FX lines and hence the cost, but I kinda doubt that - Brian Kantor straightened me out... From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Subject: Re: Prefix '520' For Los Angeles Radio Stations All the radio stations in San Diego have a 570 prefix for their numbers. That is done to limit the number of inter-CO trunks that can be tied up whilst they are running one of their "the 91st caller wins two free tickets to the moon" contests. - Brian Thank You. Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov ICBM: 34.12 N, 118.02 W #Include quote.cute.standard PSTN: 818-447-7052 #Include disclaimer.standard cat flames.all > /dev/null