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===Warm 100 (WRMM/WARM-FM)=== In 1983, after [[WSB-FM]] also changed to Soft AC, WLTA increased its tempo and opened up its announcers' personalities, and would change call letters to WRMM and rebrand as "Warm 100."<ref>Bill King, "WLTA is aiming for warm wave with new letters," ''The Atlanta Constitution'', March 11, 1983.</ref> By 1985, with digital-tuning radios taking over from analog dials, the station began calling itself "Warm 99," since modern radios would show the dial position as 99.7 MHz. That did not sit well with WSB-FM's parent company, [[Cox Radio]], who would [[lawsuit|sue]], claiming "[[copyright infringement]]."<ref>Bill King, "Sarginson lands Washington job," ''The Atlanta Constitution'', June 21, 1985.</ref> In a [[landmark case]], ''Cox v. Susquehanna Broadcasting'', the judge was handed a digital radio and asked to tune to 100.0 MHz. There was no signal, because it was between channels. To find the nearest station, he pressed the "[[channel surfing|scan]]" button, and it stopped on [[WKHX-FM]] at 101.5 MHz. Next, he entered 99.0 MHz, which again is between channels and so contained no signal. Scanning from there, the radio hit 99.7. In his [[precedent]]-setting decision, the federal district judge stated that on a radio dial "a radio station's [[frequency]] is its [[Address (geography)|address]]" and one cannot copyright an address. He ruled in favor of Warm 99. A short time later, WSB-FM became known as "B98.5." WRMM would adjust its call letters slightly around this time, switching to WARM-FM.<ref>John Carman, "'Hometown' big chill on hopes of CBS for superior TV series," ''The Atlanta Constitution'', August 22, 1985.</ref>
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