KJUC/KCSB Training Manual Question
and answers rated A+ 2025/2026
Major Violations Consequences - correct answer ✔First = No programming for 2 weeks
Second = Removal from station for at least 2 quarters
FCC Violations - correct answer ✔Range from $10,000 to $325,000
(Indecent material = $35,000)
Rules about Logs - correct answer ✔- Entries must be truthful
- Blue or black ink
- Corrections: Lined out with a single line, corrected, initialed, dated
-- (if the error is an omission [failure to do something], initial and date where the entry should've been)
- All times should be accurately entered
- Can only fill out program & transmitter log if passed the OC test
Program Logs - correct answer ✔Includes names of programs & programmers, types of programs,
records of Emergency Alert System tests, donation acknowledgments, promotions, and PSAs.
- 4 pages (each 6 hrs of the day, starts at midnight)
- 2 parts (top section - legend & calendar, main body - IDs and specific program info)
Program Log Legend - correct answer ✔LE - Light Entertainment
CA - Cultural Arts
PA - Public Affairs
N - News
S - Sports
,Program Specific Legend - correct answer ✔PSA - Public Service Announcement
SP - Station Promotion
DA - Donation Acknowledgement
ID - Legal Station Identification
POL - Political events, speeches, debates
O - Other (EAS tests, Warnings of Objectionable Material, Disclaimers, and STL IDs)
Program Log Page - correct answer ✔Corresponds to chronological day of the year
- followed by a number 1-4 corresponding to the page on the program log it corresponds to
Program Log Date - correct answer ✔Should include month, day, and year (ex. 12/11/10)
Program Log Day - correct answer ✔Corresponds to day of the week
PST/PDT - correct answer ✔Pacific Standard Time & Pacific Daylight Time
- PST: used after the time changes in the fall & goes through the winter.
- PDT: after the time change in spring & goes through the summer
Legal ID - correct answer ✔- Must announce the station "KCSB-FM (in) Santa Barbara" as close to the
top of the hour as possible (within 5 min)
- can add "91.9" before/after the phrase
Studio Transmitter Link ID (STL-ID) - correct answer ✔- identifies our transmitter and microwave link
from Store Tower to Broadcast Peak
- call letters = KKT-91; owners= Regents of UC; operators: associated students of UCSB
, - played 2x (once at 6am & once at 6pm), logged in "Scheduled Events"
"Scheduled Event" Column - correct answer ✔- entered by studio management (Promotions Director or
Assistant Program Director) - usually giveaways or EAS tests
- if a scheduled time is logged, you're required to perform the indicated task within a few minutes of the
designated time
-time must be logged under "Begin" in the "actual time" column
"Actual Time" columns - correct answer ✔- log the real time that programming is broadcast - Begin &
End
Additional Columns - correct answer ✔Type - Nature of your program
Program Title - in first line of the section of the program log
Programmer - ACTUAL name
Transmitter Logs - correct answer ✔- Program Log: Date & Day
- Operator Log
- Transmitter Readings
- Emergency Alert System Record
- Comments
Transmitter Log - Program Log: Date & Day - correct answer ✔Filled out exactly like the program log ,
but it's always on the fifth page (ex. "364-5")
Operator Log - correct answer ✔- Includes "Time-On," space for the programmer's signature, and
"Time-Off"
and answers rated A+ 2025/2026
Major Violations Consequences - correct answer ✔First = No programming for 2 weeks
Second = Removal from station for at least 2 quarters
FCC Violations - correct answer ✔Range from $10,000 to $325,000
(Indecent material = $35,000)
Rules about Logs - correct answer ✔- Entries must be truthful
- Blue or black ink
- Corrections: Lined out with a single line, corrected, initialed, dated
-- (if the error is an omission [failure to do something], initial and date where the entry should've been)
- All times should be accurately entered
- Can only fill out program & transmitter log if passed the OC test
Program Logs - correct answer ✔Includes names of programs & programmers, types of programs,
records of Emergency Alert System tests, donation acknowledgments, promotions, and PSAs.
- 4 pages (each 6 hrs of the day, starts at midnight)
- 2 parts (top section - legend & calendar, main body - IDs and specific program info)
Program Log Legend - correct answer ✔LE - Light Entertainment
CA - Cultural Arts
PA - Public Affairs
N - News
S - Sports
,Program Specific Legend - correct answer ✔PSA - Public Service Announcement
SP - Station Promotion
DA - Donation Acknowledgement
ID - Legal Station Identification
POL - Political events, speeches, debates
O - Other (EAS tests, Warnings of Objectionable Material, Disclaimers, and STL IDs)
Program Log Page - correct answer ✔Corresponds to chronological day of the year
- followed by a number 1-4 corresponding to the page on the program log it corresponds to
Program Log Date - correct answer ✔Should include month, day, and year (ex. 12/11/10)
Program Log Day - correct answer ✔Corresponds to day of the week
PST/PDT - correct answer ✔Pacific Standard Time & Pacific Daylight Time
- PST: used after the time changes in the fall & goes through the winter.
- PDT: after the time change in spring & goes through the summer
Legal ID - correct answer ✔- Must announce the station "KCSB-FM (in) Santa Barbara" as close to the
top of the hour as possible (within 5 min)
- can add "91.9" before/after the phrase
Studio Transmitter Link ID (STL-ID) - correct answer ✔- identifies our transmitter and microwave link
from Store Tower to Broadcast Peak
- call letters = KKT-91; owners= Regents of UC; operators: associated students of UCSB
, - played 2x (once at 6am & once at 6pm), logged in "Scheduled Events"
"Scheduled Event" Column - correct answer ✔- entered by studio management (Promotions Director or
Assistant Program Director) - usually giveaways or EAS tests
- if a scheduled time is logged, you're required to perform the indicated task within a few minutes of the
designated time
-time must be logged under "Begin" in the "actual time" column
"Actual Time" columns - correct answer ✔- log the real time that programming is broadcast - Begin &
End
Additional Columns - correct answer ✔Type - Nature of your program
Program Title - in first line of the section of the program log
Programmer - ACTUAL name
Transmitter Logs - correct answer ✔- Program Log: Date & Day
- Operator Log
- Transmitter Readings
- Emergency Alert System Record
- Comments
Transmitter Log - Program Log: Date & Day - correct answer ✔Filled out exactly like the program log ,
but it's always on the fifth page (ex. "364-5")
Operator Log - correct answer ✔- Includes "Time-On," space for the programmer's signature, and
"Time-Off"
