"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Greg and Joan wrote:

A few in our area -

WNBP = Newburyport, 1450 AM = NBP, obvious
WBOQ = Gloucester, replaced WVCA (Voice of Cape Ann), WBOQ
orignally was
an all classical station and the BOQ was to represent "Bach".
WCCM = Haverhill, 1490 AM. The station was orignally at 800 khz
in
Lawrence. "CCM" was supposed to somehow represent "800" in Roman
numerals.
It's a stretch.
WLLH = Lawrence and Lowell (two synchronous transmitters at 1400
am) =
Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, but Haverhill never got a
transmitter
WPAA-FM, Andover - Phillips Andover Academy, a low-power class D
that's
still on the air

.

WPFB AM & FM in Middletown, Ohio was owned by Paul F Bradeon, and
another station he owned was WPBF so it is rather obvious he used
his
initials.

WMAL - Washington, DC - for the M A Lease Optical Company They sold
the station to NBC in the 1930s, but the call persists to this day.