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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 .. |
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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. -- Beware of those who suffer from delusions of adequacy! Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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. I could offer tons more, but isn't someone collecting these and putting them on a website, or am I not recalling correctly? -- JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638) Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED "In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor Valley is the sun." -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large amount of rain the Southland has gotten this winter (January 12th, 2005) |
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Steve Sobol wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote: 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. I could offer tons more, but isn't someone collecting these and putting them on a website, or am I not recalling correctly? Steven J. Sobol Sorry, but I stumbled across this thread and just added a couple calls that I knew about. I'm disabled now, but I was a radio and TV broadcast engineer in the '70s, '80s and '90s As far as someone creating a website, I like the idea. Btw, WSM in Nashville claims it means "We Shield Millions" because it was started by an insurance company. A local Christian TV station bought an existing low power station in Lake county Florida. The call letters were WIYE so they cam up with "We Inspire You Everyday" Later, they went full power and changed their call to WACX for "ACTS TV" because it was as close as they could get to what they wanted. My first job in radio was at the 980 Khz AFRN station at Ft Greely, AK in '73 and '74. It was 95 percent tube equipment and had a really worn out Gates BC250 transmitter that was patched together by countless emergency repairs that were never done right. The studio was a real dump, and over the years someone had put layer after layer of house paint on the audio board and some of the other equipment. It was a case study in how not to do radio or TV. We also had a 500 watt B&W TV station on Ch 8 that was a joke. A lot of equipment failures that put it off the air every night and the typical military attitude of not letting yo fix a problem, and not allowing any downtime. Those were the days! -- Beware of those who suffer from delusions of adequacy! Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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Followups set to rrb only, because I don't know how applicable this is to
shortwave. Michael A. Terrell wrote: Steve Sobol wrote: I could offer tons more, but isn't someone collecting these and putting them on a website, or am I not recalling correctly? Steven J. Sobol Sorry No, don't be! I was just curious, because we have this discussion once every year or two. In fact, I'll add some... A local Christian TV station bought an existing low power station in Lake county Florida. The call letters were WIYE so they cam up with "We Inspire You Everyday" Later, they went full power and changed their call to WACX for "ACTS TV" because it was as close as they could get to what they wanted. WSVN Channel 7 Miami, Florida. WSYX Channel 6 Columbus, Ohio. WTHR Channel 13, Indianapolis, Indiana. WFOR Channel 4 Miami. And WFOR used to be WCIX Channel 6... WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland, Ohio, owned by Scripps-Howard and one of the first TV stations in the country. Callsign stands for "Edward W. Scripps." WOIO Channel 19 Cleveland. I've never asked but I always assume the calls stand for "Ohio." WXIX Channel 19 Cincinnati, Ohio. XIX is the Roman numeral 19. WIII Channel 64 Cincinnati. "The Eyes of Cincinnati." (Eyes... I's... heh... someone had a rather cheesy sense of humor.) W-One and W-Two: WONE-AM 980 Dayton, Ohio and WONE-FM 97.5 Akron, Ohio, and WTUE-104.7 Dayton. All used to be owned by Summit Broadcasting. Clear Channel now owns the Dayton stations and a local broadcaster, Rubber City Radio, owns WONE-FM in Akron. WLQT 99.9 Dayton used to be WVUD, broadcasting from Kennedy Union at the University of Dayton. WVUD was the "Voice of UD" and was licensed to the university until 1993 when the station was sold to Clear Channel. Incidentally - I didn't realize this until doing a Google search, but the University of Dayton campus radio station (where I used to do an airshift that you could almost hear in the dorms if you were lucky) has hit the airwaves. WDCR used to be carrier-current only. Now they're WUDR-99.5/98.1... "The Udder". (no, I'm not kidding, see for yourself: http://flyer-radio.udayton.edu/) WEOL-AM 930, Lorain County, Ohio, serving Elyria, Oberlin and Lorain. WELW-AM 1330, Lake County, Ohio, serving Eastlake and Willoughby. There was a Christian radio station on 1260 for a while in Cleveland, with the calls WRDZ ("Words"). (It's now Radio Disney.) How about WZAK-93.1 Cleveland, currently owned by Radio One but previously the flagship station for Cleveland-owned Zapis Communications. And WJW-TV 8 Cleveland, which became WJKW for a number of years in the 80s after it was sold to a different company from the one that owned WJW-AM 850, and then became WJW again after WJW-AM was sold and changed calls. Not notable, except that they were allowed to go back to three-letter calls. I'm not sure how that happened, or if a lot of strings had to be pulled to make it happen. In the area where I now live, KHWY 98.9 Essex, CA. Part of the "Highway Radio" group of stations catering to people driving the highways between SoCal and Laughlin, NV, and SoCal and Las Vegas. (KHWY is on the way to Laughlin.) I'm sure I'll come up with some more later... -- JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638) Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED "In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor Valley is the sun." -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large amount of rain the Southland has gotten this winter (January 12th, 2005) |
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Steve Sobol wrote:
Followups set to rrb only, because I don't know how applicable this is to shortwave. Cleveland stations: WNCX -- "North Coast" WCLV -- "Cleveland" WUAB -- "United Artists Broadcasting" WKBF -- "Kaiser Broadcasting" (looong defunct) others, that I'd have to think on -- I haven't lived in Cleveland in 15 years. -- Eric F. Richards "The weird part is that I can feel productive even when I'm doomed." - Dilbert |
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Steve Sobol wrote:
Followups set to rrb only, because I don't know how applicable this is to shortwave. Could be very applicable, as in the case of HCJB "Heralding Christ Jesus' Blessings" in Ecuador. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Eric F. Richards wrote:
Steve Sobol wrote: Followups set to rrb only, because I don't know how applicable this is to shortwave. Cleveland stations: WNCX -- "North Coast" WCLV -- "Cleveland" I forgot about those. Actually, WNCX = "North Coast eXpress to Rock and Roll" and that's how they ID'd themselves when they signed on in 1987. WUAB -- "United Artists Broadcasting" WKBF -- "Kaiser Broadcasting" (looong defunct) These, I didn't know about. others, that I'd have to think on -- I haven't lived in Cleveland in 15 years. Lessee, there are a couple more. KKJZ Long Beach, California - "K-Jazz", simulcasting on KUOR Redlands, owned by the University of Redlands. KKJZ is licensed to Cal State, Long Beach, IIRC. Apropos of WCLV, Los Angeles's classical station is KMZT 105.1, "K-Mozart." Los Angeles also has Kiss 102.7 (KIIS) and "Coast" 103.5 (KOST). -- JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638) Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED "In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor Valley is the sun." -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large amount of rain the Southland has gotten this winter (January 12th, 2005) |
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Steve Sobol had written:
| | No, don't be! I was just curious, because we have this discussion once every | year or two. In fact, I'll add some... Yes, it's a waste of time, but it's a *fun* waste of time! So here goes: San Francisco area: KSFO - from the airport abbreviation (KSFO) KNBR - from previous ownership by NBC (presumably NB(C) Radio) KCBS - from current (sort-of) ownership KCBC - actually in the Modesto market, owned by Crawford Broadcasting Company (CBC) KGO -- supposedly, "General (Electric) Oakland", from its original owner and city of license (also on KGO-TV) KABL - was at 960 kHz, now exiled to a suburban East Bay FM signal, meant to evoke the "cable" cars, complete with cable-car bells! KIQI - originally KIOI, after its dial position at 1010 kHz. Similarly, KIOI(FM) is at 101.3, but Clear Channel trashed the longtime "K-101" moniker for the cookie-cutter "Star 101-3" KTCT - "The Ticket" but now often simulcasts KNBR KFAX - an early 1960s effort at an all-news station, it has kept the calls (K-Facts) long after that format expired KLOK - San Jose, once called "Radio Reloj", but had those calls as an English-language station, too KOIT (AM/FM) - after the Coit Tower, a San Francisco landmark KSRO - Santa Rosa, for, well, Santa Rosa (SRO) KVTO - "Voice of the Orient", a Berkeley brokered station with programs in many Asian languages KEST - presumably "East", a San Francisco brokered station similar to KVTO KQED (FM/TV) - "QED", Latin for "that which was to be proved", the tagline of many a mathematical proof KPOO - "Poor People's Radio", a San Francisco noncommercial FM KFJC - "Foothill (Junior?) College", a South Bay station KUSF - University of San Francisco KCSM (FM/TV) - College of San Mateo KSJO - San Jose, for the city, (or now that it is "La Preciosa", has it changed calls?) KNGY - Alameda, "Energy" (dance format) KPFA - *The* original Pacifica station KYLD - "Wild" (urban format) KZBR - "The Bear" (country format) KLLC - "Alice" (20-something format) KISC - "Kiss" (R&B oldies format) KFOG - After the fog in San Francisco KITS - "Hits", remnant of a long-gone Top 20 format KSAN - historically for "San" Francisco, but now on a station licensed to San Mateo, so I guess it still works KVYN - "Vine", an FM station in Napa KRON - "Chronicle", the newspaper that was the original owner of the TV station KTSF - Television San Francisco KMTP - Minority Telecommunications Project, the owner of the station KBHK - HK for "Henry Kaiser", the industrialist who put the station on the air KFTY - Santa Rosa, for its dial position on channel 50 KTLN - Novato, for "Total Living Network" A little farther afield: KVEC - San Luis Obispo, for the Valley Electric Company (original owner) KPRL - Paso Robles, for Paso Robles Even farther afield over to Missouri and nearby: KCSP - Kansas City, "Kansas City Sports", originally was WDAF, the calls now are on FM KCMO - Kansas City, Missouri (AM or FM) KCTV - Kansas City TV, originally KCMO-TV. The calls were chosen in 1982 after Meredith spun off the radio stations and persuaded a San Angelo, Texas TV station to give up its KCTV calls KMBC - "Midland Broadcast Central", now just on TV but originally on AM KMBZ - Smart move by Bonneville when it bought KMBC(AM) in 1967 KCKN - Owned for many years by the "Kansas City Kansan" newspaper KCNW - "Kansas City News", remnant of a brief period as an all-news station affiliated with the NBC News and Information Service KSFT - "Soft", a St. Joseph station originally on FM, its original calls, KKJO were swapped with that FM station in the late 1980s when the KKJO rock format moved to FM And, no, WHB did not originally stand for the "World's Happiest Broadcasters". That slogan was retrofitted to the calls more than 30 years after WHB first took to the air. KCUR - "Kansas City University Radio", an FM station originally put on the air by the University of Kansas City, which is now a part of the University of Missouri KJHK - "Jayhawk", a student-run station at the University of Kansas KMXV - "Mix", a CHR station KUDL - "Cuddle", a soft-rock station, but that the calls originally were on an AM Top 40 station (now KCNW) KCFX - "The Fox" KBEQ - A length explanation: originally KBEY-FM, sister station of KBEA(AM), which was put on the air by real estate developer Thomas Beal (BEAl) KSHB - "Scripps Howard Broadcasting", the second owner for which channel 41 was named. The first was KBMA for the Business Men's Assurance insurance company. KQTV - The St. Joseph station was originally KFEQ-TV, when it split from KFEQ radio, the "Q" remained KTPK - For Topeka KLWN - For Lawrence KLZR - "Lazer", a Lawrence FM station KANU - "Kansas U(niversity)" Elsewhere in Missouri: KTVO - A TV station licensed to Kirksville, Mo. but which, for many years, had its main studio and offices in Ottumwa, Iowa KRCG - Richard C. Goshorn, the published the of the Jefferson City newspaper that established the TV station KMIZ - "Mizzou", after the University of Missouri in Columbia KHQA - "Hannibal-Quincy", a TV station licensed to Hannibal, Mo. but based in Quincy, Illinois KOLR - "Color", a Springfield, Mo. TV station KBIA - "Columbia", now the calls for the University of Missouri's NPR station, originally the calls for a commercial AM station KCOU - "COU", the airport abbreviation for Columbia, another university station KOPN - "Open", a Columbia station originally founded as an open-access volunteer operation KTGR - "Tiger", the mascot of the University of Missouri (original calls, KBIA!) KWOS - "Keep Watching Our State", a Jefferson City station named in commemoration of state-owned station WOS ("Watching Our State") which had its plug pulled in 1936 under mysterious circumstances The whole K[letter]MO series: KFMO Flat River KGMO Cape Girardeau KHMO Hannibal KJMO Jefferson City KMMO Marshall KSMO Salem -- and *also* KSMO-TV Kansas City (for "Kansas/Missouri") And the "Keep Tuned To" series: KTTN Trenton KTTR Rolla KTTS Springfield KWTO Springfield - "Keep Watching the Ozarks" (a radio station, never a TV station) A few from Iowa: KCOG Centerville - "Keep Calling of God", because it used paid religious programs to stay afloat during its early days KOTM Ottumwa - OTM for Ottumwa KRNT Des Moines - "RNT", the Register and Tribune, the station's former longtime owner WSUI and KSUI Iowa City - SUI for "State University of Iowa", the old name for the University of Iowa KMA Shenandoah - "MA" for Earl May, the nurseryman who put the station on the air OK, that's enough for now! -- Mark Roberts |
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