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An Interactive e-mail Journal In Service To The Radio Broadcasting Community
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Articles in this issue include:
Mail problems have slowed news. (RRB Moderator)
Re: Seeking Radio Station cal[l letters] (wmbr@MIT.EDU)
Re: Seeking Radio Station cal (Jeff Billman)
Re: Radio Station C (Christopher J Hayes)
Re: Seeking Radio Station cal (Mark Wozniak)
Re: Seeking Radio Station cal (jwg)
Seeking Radio STation CAll.... (Robert Carpenter )
More Radio Station call signs... (Michael S. Shappe)
More call letter origins (Joe Hartley)
Call letters (Kyle McPeck )
Internet to be discussed on WBZ radio, Boston (Scott D Fybush)
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Subject: Mail problems have slowed news.
From: wdp@airwaves.chi.il.us (RRB Moderator)
Organization: Internet Radio Journal
Hello readers
The mail shake up in CHicago has caused some news to this group to be
delayed.
That situation seems to be fixed now and traffic is flowing better.
However some articles came in in a clump, and I am going to get these
posted now.
Thanks for your patience.
If you have written about the AIRWAVES radio-watchers program, be
patient, I will get info to you real soon.
Bill
William Pfeiffer - Moderator/Editor | Satellite-106 |
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Subject: Re: Seeking Radio Station cal[l letters]
From: wmbr@MIT.EDU
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-> Al> ANy Others?
-> WGN Chicago: World's Greatest Newspaper.
-> WACO: Waco, Texas.
-> WARE: Ware, Mass.
-> KING Seattle: King County
I'm assuming that the point of this thread is listing interesting
call letters and their origins/meanings. Not particularly profound,
but perhaps amusing...
WGBH - Great Blue Hill (location of antenna) Boston, MA
WERS - Emerson College Boston, MA
WBUR - Boston University Radio
WHRB - Harvard Radio Broadcasting, Cambridge, MA
WFNX - owned by "Phoenix" publishing, Boston, MA
WBOS - (Pretty obvious), Boston, MA
WCLV - Cleveland, OH
WOBC - Oberlin College, OH
WMBR - Walker Memorial Basement Radio. In the basement of guess which
building at MIT. (Formerly WTBS: Technology Broadcasting Corp.)
-Ted Young (who would personally like to see less discussion of Rush
Limbaugh and more discussion on proper maser deflection techniques...)
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Subject: Re: Seeking Radio Station cal
From: jbillma@opie.bgsu.edu (Jeff Billman)
Organization: Rock Solid WFAL
In article <297ee3$neg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, neil.parks@pcohio.com (Neil
Parks) wrote:
> Al> WPHR Cleveland (Now long defunct) We Play Hit Records
> Al> ANy Others?
I would add:
WCVJ Jefferson,OH: We Celebrate Victory in Jesus
WSB Atlanta: Welcome South, Brother (slogan probably no longer used)
WERE Cleveland: <WE'RE> WERE Cleveland
And of course, my favorite (since it's where I work):
WFAL Bowling Green, OH: Named for the BGSU <FAL>cons
These are just a few of the more creative call letter abbreviations I can
remember. Just about every radio market has a station that has selected
its call letters to signify the city or metro area it serves. (WNYC New
York, WCLV Cleveland, WPIT Pittsburgh, KCMO Kansas City... The list goes on
forever.)
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Subject: Re: Radio Station C
From: admiral2@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Christopher J Hayes)
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
-> Al> ANy Others?
-> WGN Chicago: World's Greatest Newspaper.
-> WACO: Waco, Texas.
-> WARE: Ware, Mass.
-> KING Seattle: King County
WMXV NEW YORK,MIX & VARIETY
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WTMJ Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Journal
WMYX Milwaukee: the MIX
WLZR Milwaukee: Laser 103
WZTR Milwaukee: Star 95.7 (If you pronounce it correctly)
WLTQ Milwaukee: LighT and Quite (we think??)
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Subject: Re: Seeking Radio Station cal
From: bfowoz@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Mark Wozniak)
Organization: University at Buffalo
In article <29gd56$r7a@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, bernie.wu@cdreams.com (Bernie Wu) writes...
>-> Al> ANy Others?
>-> WGN Chicago: World's Greatest Newspaper.
>-> WACO: Waco, Texas.
>-> WARE: Ware, Mass.
>-> KING Seattle: King County
>WMXV NEW YORK,MIX & VARIETY
>
WKBW (now WWKB) Buffalo: (W)ell-(K)nown (B)ible (W)itness
WBEN Buffalo: (W) (B)uffalo (E)vening (N)ews
WEBR Buffalo: (W)e (E)ntertain (B)uffalo (R)egularly
WGR Buffalo: named for initials of Buffalo businessman George Rand
in the 1920s; for a while they used "World's Greatest Radio" as
their slogan
WBNY, WBFO, WBUF Buffalo: all variations on Buffalo
WSM Nashville: (W)e (S)hield (M)illions (station started by an
insurance company)
WTIC Hartford: (W) (T)raveler's (I)nsurance (C)ompany
WECK Cheektowaga NY (a suburb of Buffalo)...named for a Buffalo
delicacy, the roast beef on kimmelweck sandwich. I always thought
that the station should have a call-in complaint show, where the
host answers the phone "What's your beef on WECK?" :)
It seems that many cities have call letters reflecting their city
name or initials: WNYC New York, KSFO San Francisco, KLAC, KLAX,
KTLA and others in Los Angeles; etc.
Mark Wozniak
WBFO 88.7 FM Buffalo and WOLN 91.3 FM Olean
Full Service NPR News and Jazz from the University at Buffalo
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Subject: Re: Seeking Radio Station cal
From: SEDV1.acd4.acd.com!jwg@acd4.acd.com (jwg)
Organization: /u/jwg/.organization
About a year ago, with the help of our gracious moderator, we compiled
a list of call letter meanings. The list is strictly from r.r.b. readers'
memories, but it is a fun read. I've still got the list; anyone who's
interested in it can email me at jwg@acd4.acd.com and I'll send a copy.
I can repost the list if there's interest, as well.
jim grey
jwg@acd4.acd.com
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Subject: Seeking Radio STation CAll....
From: Robert Carpenter <rc@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Here are a few that come to mind....
WMAL 630 Washington M. A. Lease Optical Company (later sold to NBC/then
Washington Star Newspaper/now ABC)
WRC (now WWRC) 980 Washington "Washington Radio Center", a very early
station at the time when NBC's WEAF/WJZ in New York were
being called "Radio Center (or Central?)".
WGAY 1050 (now only FM) started by Connie B. GAY, Country music promoter
WKAT 1450 Miami, started by A. Frank KATzentine. A (late) friend on mine worked
there as a high-school kid in the early 1940s. Johnnie Nagle
stuttered a bit, but that probably wasn't what caused him to
say - during the midnight signoff - that the station was
"owned by A Cat's Frankenstein". Trouble was that A. Frank
himself was listening. Johnnie kept the job - guess even bad
help was hard to find during WW II.
WDON 1540 Wheaton, MD (now WMDO) DONald Dillard. When Everett Dillard, who
started WASH, put on an AM station, he named it after his
son, and eventually turned it over to him.
WMDO 1540 Wheaton, MD Radio MunDO in Spanish
WRNL 910 Richmond (what call now?) Richmond News-Leader (evening newspaper)
I hear that Richmond Newspapers also had a class IV station
called WRTD (Richmond Times-Dispatch) after their morning
paper. It was gone by the time I got to Richmond in Feb 1942,
probably killed by the FCC's multiple ownership rules that
split combinations like WRC/WMAL, etc., etc.
WRVA <R>ichmond,<VA>
KERV KERrVille, Texas. \
KRVL KeRrViLle, Texas. / an AM/FM pair
WRFL 92.5 Winchester, VA a Richard Field Lewis station
WINC AM WINChester, VA ditto
WFMD 930 Frederick, MD \
WFRE 99.9 FREderick, MD / an AM/FM pair
WDOV DOVer, Delaware
WDEL 1150 Wilmington, DELaware
WESM FM Princess Anne, MD Eastern Shore of Maryland. Operated by the
U of MD, Eastern Shore. Good jazz station.
and so on...........
73 de w3otc@amsat.org (Bob Carpenter)
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Subject: More Radio Station call signs...
From: mss1@cornell.edu (Michael S. Shappe)
Organization: Unknown
WVBR -- Voice of the Big Red; commercial station run primarily by Cornell
University students, but independent of the University.
WICB -- Ithaca College Broadcasting
--
Michael S. Shappe <mss1@cornell.edu>
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Subject: More call letter origins
From: jh@ri.cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Organization: Unknown
Here are a few more call sign origins that I'm familiar with:
WPRO - PROvidence, RI
WPJB (Prov. RI) - Providence Journal Bulletin, the station's original owner
WRIU (Kingston, RI) - Rhode Island University (Actually, it's the University
of Rhode Island. Is WURI already taken?)
WBRU (Prov. RI) - BRown University
WJMF (Smithfield, RI) - John Mowry Farm (the land that Bryant College is built on)
WRCT (Pittsburgh, PA) - We're Radio Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon)
Yikes, I just realized I've been on the air at 4 of the 6 stations I listed above!
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Joe Hartley | jh@cadre.com - Whenever you find that you are on the
Cadre Technologies | side of the majority, it is time to reform. - M. Twain
222 Richmond St. | --------------------------------------------------------
Providence, RI 02903 | Overman 1st Class - the Kilgore Trout Memorial Clench
(401) 351-5950 x266 | of the Church of the SubGenius
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Subject: Call letters
From: Kyle McPeck <nbs13@austin.onu.edu>
Organization: Unknown
Here are some additional interesting call letters of some stations I have
worked at in Ohio.
WHIZ-AM-FM-TV We're Here In Zanesville
Also, some may know that the only bridge that you can go to the middle and
turn left or right is in Zanesville too. The Y-Bridge. Thus the call letters
WYBZ-FM Y-Bridge Zanesville
Kyle McPeck
Program Manager, WONB-FM
Ada, OH
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Subject: Internet to be discussed on WBZ radio, Boston
From: fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
The Internet will be the topic of four upcoming editions of the
"David Brudnoy Show" on WBZ radio, 1030 AM, Boston. David will be
talking with authors who have written about the 'net, as well
as with callers.
The first show aired Tuesday night, October 12.
Subsequent shows are Tuesday Oct. 28 at 9pm eastern
and in November.
WBZ's 1030 kHz signal is heard across eastern North America and
beyond, and you're invited to call in at +1 617 254 1030.
I'm hoping these shows will lead 'BZ to introduce Internet access
at the station...perhaps we can even set up an email address
for questions for subsequent shows.
-=Scott Fybush - fybush@world.std.com - WBZ, Boston=-
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