Kristopher Chase wrote:



WCBS AM radio was originally licensed to Springfield Illinois but
when the CBS radio network was formed, a deal was made to change the
call letters in Springfield so New York could get WCBS. The
Springfield calls were changed to WCVS and until the 1980's the
station logo included an asterisk over the V and a small print
addition at the bottom to say 'formerly WCBS'.

WTMC in Ocala Florida, the first radio station there, stood for
Welcome To Marion County. Calls were changed in the nineties.

WXCV FM in Crystal River, Florida calls were invented by one of the
owners. Because the station was at 95 on the FM dial, roman numberals
were used for 95. XC=90 V=5

WHBO AM in Tampa Bay was designed to spell out Hillsborough, the
county of license.

WAFC in Clewiston Florida was picked by one of the founders from the
AFC switch (automatic freq control??) located on the front panel of
the GE Super Radio unit.

WSMD (long since gone) in Chicago was a jazz station that supposedly
stood for Smack Dab in the Middle as they were in the middle of the FM
dial (exact freq I dont recall, but around 98)

WLBE for Leesburg-Eustis (Florida)

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A few from my previous stomping grounds, Northeastern Oklahoma/Northwest
Arkansas.

KRMG (AM 740) - Originally owned by Kerr McGee oil company
KVOO (now KFAQ 1170AM) - stood for Voice Of Oklahoma - I believe these
calls are now parked on the sister FM at 98.5.
KMOD - acronym for Middle Of the Dial (97.5FM)
KELI (used to be AM1430) - if memory serves, Kelly was the name of the
original owners' daughter.
KXOJ (100.9 FM) - Christian easy listening station - ironically, the calls
stood for eXcited Over Jesus.
KCFO (AM 970) - Christian talk station, the calls stand for Christ For
Oklahoma - originally these calls were parked at 98.5FM as "Love 98".

KXUA (88.3 FM) - University of Arkansas
KUAF (91.3 FM) - University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

KAMO (94.3 FM) - The story I was told was that when the station signed on in
the late 60's, it was the only FM in the region that could be heard in all
four of the following states - Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

KBVA (106.5 FM) - Licensed to Bella Vista, Arkansas.

KURM (AM 790) - I've actually met the original owner, and his first name
was/is Kermit.

In message , Michael A. Terrell
writes
Greg and Joan wrote:

"CCM" was supposed to somehow represent "800" in Roman numerals.

C = 100
CC = 200
M = 1000
CC before M = 1000 - 200 = 800
You know it makes sense!
Ian.
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Also, are there any sets of calls in which the AM/FM and TV stations
are hundreds of miles apart other than for KCBS?

KCBS is in San Francisco. KCBS-TV (originally KNXT, from KNX for the
Los Angeles Evening Express) and KCBS-TV are in Los Angeles.


First, an answer to that last question. I've got one here in Utah.

KJZZ TV 14. Larry Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, got permission from
Rio Solado Community College to use KJZZ for the TV station. The calls
were first seen in 1980 in Phoenix. KMCR 91.5 (Maricopa College Radio)
first used them.

And here's a stack more...

KBAQ 89.5 (soon moving to 89.1 in frequency swap with EMF) Phoenix.
K-Bach. Classical station. Oddly, they originally were assigned
'KBQA' when someone forgot to request calls within a certain amount of
time back in 1992.

EMF '*LV', 'LV*', and L*V' calls. Loads of these, all for 'Love' as in
K-Love. See the whole list for yourself at klove.com. Their sister
network, Air1, uses 'RI' for that name in some of their calls. But the
most interesting of these is KAER 89.3 Saint George Utah. Yes, there
is also a 'KLOV' in Winchester, OR, used to feed their translators.

University calls. Plenty abound, loads of other examples, but here's
one not obvious to some. KBYU Provo (kbyufm.org) is obvious, but did
you know they were KBRG originally for 'Brigham' because KBYU was a
ship call. KSL was once assigned KZN but that was because of the same
reason.

I was responsible for the KXCI calls in Tucson. XCI stands for 91 in
roman numerals. Station is now on 91.3 but once was on 91.7. More
info may still be on kxci.org

Othere.

KUUU 'U-92'. More for identity.
KRAR 'Rock and roll', hard rock station in Utah in late 90s. Left the
air as rock station in an expletive filled hour in late 90s, became 50s
oldies until CC got it and ran KOSY 'Cozy' on it before selling it last
year.
KHTB 'Hot 94.9, the Blaze' 'Hot 94.9 was dropped two months later.
KMDG 'Mad Dog' active rock station.
KDUT 'La Gran D' (the Big D) Utah.
KZZA. Opened last night with 'Hurban' format in Dallas. They got
'Casa' (Spanish for house) out of that one. Was KKDL up until last
night.
WEAK-LP. Obvious. LPFMs run with weak power, 100 watts at 100 feet
HAAT.
KRIM-LP 'Rim' as in Mogollon Rim in Arizona. Natural landmark
related.
KNRJ 'Energy' Dance format. energyarizonafm.com.
Various 'Edge' nicknames. KEDG, KEDJ, etc. Common alternative format
name and identity in calls.
Salt Lake's 'zoo', all stations owned by Citadel.
KUBL 93.3 K-Bull, country
KBEE 98.7 'B98.7 or 'Bee 98.7'. Based on honeybee/beehive in state
seal.
KBER 101.1 Chris Devine of 3 Point Media came up with this in the 80s.
Bear.
KKAT 860 (earlier 101.9). Cat. 'Kat Country.
and they have 'pop' now, KPQP, 'Pop-FM'.
Two 'Oasis's. KOAI Dallas, KOAS Dolan Springs/Las Vegas. Both smooth
jazz formats.
'Vegas'. KVGS, KVEG. Both rimshotters, neither is in Las Vegas
itself.
'Luck' or other similar gambling-related stuff. KLUC, KLUK, KWNR.
KSOS. 'Sounds of the Spirit' (old KILA) on 800 (defunct) in Brigham
City. Might have stood for 'S*** on a shingle' but it's not known if
the original owner that took the calls ever meant that anyway, although
its signal reached a nearby military base.
KMTI 'Manti, Utah'. The town name comes from a location mentioned in
'The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ'.
KVVA 'Viva' 107.1 Apache Junction/Phoenix. Spanish word.
KUTR 'Utah'. Two stations had it in the late 80s, early 9os, will
soon be heard again this spring when Bonneville puts 820 on the air in
Salt Lake.
KLGN 'Logan Utah'.
KVNU 'Voice of Northern Utah', station in Logan, Utah.
KEVA short for 'Evanston' Wyoming.
KUDD I doubt had anything to do with the Simpsons episode that parodied
KOME in the Bay Area. KOME had a liner that said 'Don't touch that
dial, it's got KOME all over it'. The Simpsons episode had 'KUDD', may
have been a reference to cow cuds. The KUDD calls are in Roy, Utah on
107.9 (docket 04-427 proposes move to Henefer Utah), and the D's stood
originally for 'Dianna' and 'Power D'. Station still uses Power 107.9
but has segued from CHR/Pop to hot AC lately.
KKFR 92.3 Glendale/Phoenix. K-Fire. Used for short time in mid-80s.
Now another 'Power', as a rhythmic CHR.

I'll post more later. Keep all the stories coming.

I worked for Gene Autry's KMPC for 22 years call letters
K McMillan Petrolum Company. Also KECA owned by ABC was
K Earle C. Anthony now KABC
Roger Carroll

Darned good listing. Here are some more.

KTUC 'Tucson'.
KAIR old easy listening station. 'Drive with KAIR, Everywhere'.
KNST 'News Talk'. They tried for KNSI for 'News Sports Information'
but those had been snapped up two weeks before by a station in
Minnesota for the same format.
KGVY 'Green Valley'.
KRQQ 'Rock'. Goes by 'KRQ', often had promotions where listeners would
have to find the missing Q.
KWMT 'Mountain'. Others I've heard of include KUMT Centerville Salt
Lake. This one and the others before are all from Tucson at one time.

How about something hitting the fan?

KFNZ, KFFN, KFAN, and others.

KJQS 'Jocks', an all-Sports 'toilet' in Salt Lake. Never shows up in
the arbs.
KJQN went by 'KJQ' until recently, now it stands for 'Jack' like in
Jack-FM.
KIQN 'KIQ' News, Information and TEchnology'. Station went bankrupt
last year, now is KCPW AM, as an NPR/PRI/APM affiliate.

Stars: KSTJ, KSRR, multiple others.

KSOP. Just celebrated 50th anniversary, FM side was first country FM
in the nation. Both are still country, same owner even. Stands for
'Salt lake, Ogden,
Provo.

Magic: KBMG 'Magica 106.1' Evanston WY/Salt Lake (rimshot), supposedly
goes on with a tropical/Spanish pop hybrid tomorrow. Others. KMGX
(now KNST), KMGR, four stations in 17 years in Utah). KAMJ (now KZON).
Plenty of these to be had.

'The Zone'. KZON, KZNS, others.

Old 'Z-Rock' heavy metal format: KTZR 'Tucson's Z-Rock'. Now belongs
to Spanish hits station in Tucson.

WKRP anyone? We had a 'KRPN' that used a W before the official calls
in the early nineties. Oddly, they simulcasted KZHT for a while.
There were a few titters about the vulgar words you could also get out
of those two. But yes, broadcasters did call KZHT 'K-Zit' for a while
anyway. KZHT first appeared in 1989, and is still a CHR/Pop.

A station in Dallas GA, a suburb of Atlanta, held the WKRP calls for a
while. The following information is from Georgia Tech's local radio
history page at:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/radio/am.html




1500 - WDPC - Religion - Dallas GA

Simulcasts AM 1520. The station's frequency is the 2nd harmonic of 50 kW
WSB-AM, generally making reception impossible in Atlanta. The station
went on the air in August 1979, with the calls WKRP. The engineer who
put it on the air was Tom Hayes, a student who worked for a while for me
as a lab assistant. The owner was a Dallas, GA, businessman. The
original management hoped to penetrate the Atlanta area with a top-40
format. The station changed hands several times and then went dark. It
is back today with a religious format. The original calls were obtained
only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
unintentionally played at the wrong speed.


Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

GTT





(snippage)

WKRP anyone? We had a 'KRPN' that used a W before the official calls
in the early nineties. Oddly, they simulcasted KZHT for a while.
There were a few titters about the vulgar words you could also get out
of those two. But yes, broadcasters did call KZHT 'K-Zit' for a while
anyway. KZHT first appeared in 1989, and is still a CHR/Pop.

G.T. Tyson wrote:
only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
unintentionally played at the wrong speed.

Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
whether it was the other way around.

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Steve Sobol wrote:

Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
whether it was the other way around.

WKRC was there before the show

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"Steve Sobol" wrote in message
...
| G.T. Tyson wrote:

| only after it was pointed out to the FCC that Mary Tyler Moore
| Productions was neither a permittee, nor a licensee. Therefore, the
| 'hold' on the calls WKRP, from the TV series "WKRP in Cincinnati", was
| null and void. None of the invited TV cast members accepted an
| invitation to the opening ceremonies where the first record was
| unintentionally played at the wrong speed.

| Another side note: Apparently one of the creators of "WKRP In
| Cincinnati" worked at WQXI in Atlanta during its Top 40 glory days and
| based the show and several characters on his memories of it.

| Leads me to wonder whether Q102 (WKRQ-FM Cincinnati) was named after the show.
| I've wondered for a long time whether the calls were based on the show or
| whether it was the other way around.

As I've always loved this show (inasmuch as it had its own Ginger/Mary Ann
debate....Bailey - Jennifer) I can tell you that the connections to Cincinatti
radio ran deep. Not only WQXI, but also WLW and WKRC. But WKRQ (the last two
letters suggesting Rock, which of course was the format then, and probably
still) was simply a variant of the AM, WKRC, and both stations were owned by
Taft (as in the President, and descendents, including Senator Robert)
Broadcasting, which it'd owned for many, many years. So in this case WKRP was,
at best, suggested by the previous knowledge of WKRC/WKRQ. I'm sure there's a
fan website out there that is more accurate and expansive than my memories of
it.
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