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- From: mleipe@bnr.ca (Mike Leipe)
- Subject: Re: Funny Radio station name..........
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134557.28543@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:45:57 GMT
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- In article <C1Bv21.HqH@news2.cis.umn.edu>, rgeorge@barracuda.micro.umn.edu (Rogers George) writes:
- |> [stuff deleted]
- |> at the univ. of Minnesota, the campus radio call letters are derived
- |> somehow from the campus the station's at. So, at the main campus we have
- |> (boooo-ring) KUOM. But those lucky folks up at the University of
- |> Minnesota, Morris campus have...
- |> you guessed it...
- |> KUMM.
- |> According to an ex who dj'd there, there was a sex & bondage - themed
- |> program.
- |>
- |> rgeorge@staff.tc.umn.edu
- |>
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- When I was living near Penticton, British Columbia, ten years ago, they
- had a radio station called CKOK. They *never* "pronounced" it over the
- air, though...
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