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unusual facts about facility ID


Facility ID

The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international (shortwave) broadcast station in its Common Database System (CDBS).


WNGH-TV

W04BJ Young Harris, Georgia, analog permanently off-air due to equipment failure since May 2008, was at a different location, and had the same facility ID (23945) as W12DK-D because it was flash-cut to digital when it was moved and changed TV channels


see also

KOFY

20 KOFY-TV San Francisco, California (FCC facility ID #51189), a television station that formerly used the call signs KBWB and KTZO

WDEK

92.5 WCPY DeKalb, Illinois (FCC facility ID 15974) — was WDEK until 2008