Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Prefix '520' For Los Angeles Radio Stations Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 89 23:26:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 37 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 391, message 3 of 9 klb@lzaz.att.com (K.BLATTER) 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. 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. A acquaintance in Pac Bell tells me that if they can get GTE to co-operate that they might be able to do the same thing with 714, only it would have to be something other than 520, as that is already in use in the city of Anaheim. It probably won't happen with 619 as that is north San Diego, and all of Riverside and San Bernadino, and many of the lower powered stations don't reach that far. My '84 Riverside book does not list a assignment for 619-520 however. 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 - 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