WARE COL
 

"Peter H." wrote in message
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1250 is one of a few stations using their COL as calls - Ware,
Massachusetts.


Well, I think WINC (Winchester, VA) should at least get an honorable
mention. g

TritonVA

On 30 Jul 2003 23:54:22 GMT, "TritonVA" wrote:


"Peter H." wrote in message
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1250 is one of a few stations using their COL as calls - Ware,
Massachusetts.


Well, I think WINC (Winchester, VA) should at least get an honorable
mention. g

TritonVA

If that gets mentioned, then KERN, Bakersfield (Kern County) should
probably be mentioned, too.

Mark Howell

If that gets mentioned, then KERN, Bakersfield (Kern County) should probably be
mentioned, too.


KERN is cool.

WWVA is, too.

Would WRAL FM/TV (Raleigh NC) count?
WNYC-FM New York?

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Did the FCC ever inadvertently assign call letters that turned out to be
risque somehow? There was a KOME in California for a while. Farmville
NC had WFAG on 1250 through the 60s and 70s. Havelock NC presently
has a WANG on 105.1. Any others?

GTT



Peter H. wrote:
If that gets mentioned, then KERN, Bakersfield (Kern County) should probably be
mentioned, too.


KERN is cool.

WWVA is, too.

Did the FCC ever inadvertently assign call letters that turned out to be
risque somehow? There was a KOME in California for a while. Farmville
NC had WFAG on 1250 through the 60s and 70s. Havelock NC presently
has a WANG on 105.1. Any others?

GTT

I am typing this from the production studio of WCUM, Bridgeport, CT. The call
letters refer to the Spanish word CUMBRE, translated to English is SUMMIT.


Bob Radil
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On 31 Jul 2003 20:42:39 GMT, "G.T TYSON"
wrote:

Would WRAL FM/TV (Raleigh NC) count?
WNYC-FM New York?

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Did the FCC ever inadvertently assign call letters that turned out to be
risque somehow? There was a KOME in California for a while. Farmville
NC had WFAG on 1250 through the 60s and 70s. Havelock NC presently
has a WANG on 105.1. Any others?

There used to be a KCOK (K-COK) in Tulare, CA but the calls were
changed years ago. IIRC it's the station that's now KJUG (K-JUG), but
the logo is a moonshine jug, not a Dolly Parton jug g.

Mark Howell

In article , Bob Radil wrote:
I am typing this from the production studio of WCUM, Bridgeport, CT. The call

Ahhhhh yes. Good ol' Radio Cumbre. Every time I'm rolling through
Connecticut I make sure to tune it in. Good music and the deejays on
the weekend are lively without being obnoxious like the ones on New
York's Mega 97.9! :-)

--
Sven Weil
New York City, U.S.A.

"Don't touch that dial, there's KOME on the radio"

OK, try this: www.kfok.org



"G.T TYSON" wrote:

Would WRAL FM/TV (Raleigh NC) count?
WNYC-FM New York?

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Did the FCC ever inadvertently assign call letters that turned out to be
risque somehow? There was a KOME in California for a while. Farmville
NC had WFAG on 1250 through the 60s and 70s. Havelock NC presently
has a WANG on 105.1. Any others?

--
"From spongecake to satellites, it's gotta be Krebstar"

In Article , CA was in NJ
SHOT_ON_SIGHT wrote:
G.T TYSON wrote:

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Not currently on the FCC lists, but a sort of related call with a history of
its own is. There's a WKRP-LP (TV) licensed to Washington DC. W-KRaP?
Wonder if the TV show producers saw it that way. Why anyone with a real
station would WANT those calls is also a different matter.


Who has KCUF?

Regards,

Ty Ford


For Ty Ford V/O demos, audio services and equipment reviews,
click on http://www.jagunet.com/~tford

There was a WKRP-AM in Atlanta for a short time in the 70's, designed
specifically to cash in on the TV show's popularity. The stars of the
show were invited to appear on the station's first day of broadcasting
but none showed. The FCC denied the calls until someone pointed out
that MTM Productions was not an actual licensee.
The first record played on the new station came up at the wrong speed.
Potential advertisers thought it was a joke. It was a daytime- only
station with all sorts of signal problems. As I recall, it lasted less
than a year.

GTT


Ty Ford wrote:
In Article , CA was in NJ
SHOT_ON_SIGHT wrote:

G.T TYSON wrote:


There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Not currently on the FCC lists, but a sort of related call with a history of
its own is. There's a WKRP-LP (TV) licensed to Washington DC. W-KRaP?
Wonder if the TV show producers saw it that way. Why anyone with a real
station would WANT those calls is also a different matter.



Who has KCUF?

Regards,

Ty Ford


For Ty Ford V/O demos, audio services and equipment reviews,
click on http://www.jagunet.com/~tford

There was a station that had the call WKRP and I worked for that station in
1981-1982.

It was WKRP in Dallas, GA. Mitch Lepord put the station on the air in 1979.
It was suspose to be WDLS, but WKLS in Atlanta (96 Rock), said those calls
were too close to the 96 Rock calls, and Mitch went after the WKRP ID.

And yes, it was a Crappy station to work for. 1500 KHZ, 1000 Watt daytimers,
500 Watts CH and no presunrise authroization. Mitch started it off with a
format of playing one country record, then one rock record. It sucked.
First record on WKRP Dallas was 'Lonsome looser'. It's now WDPC playing
gospel music.

I did mornings there for a while. Still have airchecks and press from those
days. Then walked out on them in October 1982, when the owner threatend to
fire me for low sales numbers (and I was a sales/jock and hated the sales
side of it). I went to WFOM in November, 1982 and played rock, until that
station got sold in 1983 and changed to christain music.

WKRP was crap, it sucked working there.



"CA was in NJ"
SHOT_ON_SIGHT wrote in
message ...
G.T TYSON wrote:

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Not currently on the FCC lists, but a sort of related call with a history
of
its own is. There's a WKRP-LP (TV) licensed to Washington DC. W-KRaP?
Wonder if the TV show producers saw it that way. Why anyone with a real
station would WANT those calls is also a different matter.

CA was in NJ wrote:

G.T TYSON wrote:

There was an urban-formatted WRAP in Virginia some years back. Makes me
wonder if there was a KRAP somewhere out west.

Not currently on the FCC lists, but a sort of related call with a history of
its own is. There's a WKRP-LP (TV) licensed to Washington DC. W-KRaP?
Wonder if the TV show producers saw it that way. Why anyone with a real
station would WANT those calls is also a different matter.


To pick up the city-related thread...

WSYR, Syracuse, NY

and

WELM, Elmira, NY

both loom large in my personal history.

--
Wendell Craig http://anncrman.com

The investigation of what went wrong in the run-up
to 9-11 is currently funded at $15 million, less
than one-fourth of what the Republican-led Congress
authorized for the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
-- Katrina vanden Heuvel, THE NATION

I worked at WMMW 1470 AM Radio in Meriden, Connecticut for a while after
I got out of school as a DJ - Announcer. It was a 1,000 watt day time
station when I worked there. I would always tell people that WMMW stood
for We Make Meriden Wonderful. Thanks and Take Care, From, Tom Coss,
Meriden,CT.