From: Several Posters
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Airwaves
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:18:29 GMT

>From: nhmas@gauss.med, Mark Shneyder

In article <1992Sep2.232625.10615@gagme.chi.il.us>
fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush) writes:
>
>WBCN-FM Boston Classical Network, remarkable when you consider that
>they're now THE AOR station in town.

Actually,it was the Boston Concert Network.
>
>WVBF-FM Presumably Voice of Boston and Framingham (city of license)

The Very Best in Boston/Framingham

-Mark

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>From: tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
>Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park

In article <1992Sep2.232610.10584@gagme.chi.il.us> Robert Carpenter
<rc@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> writes:
>
>Rich Oakes posted in RRB165 "meanings for a few DC-area stations. I beg to
>differ differ onat least one of them. Rich says the WHFS meant High Fidelity
>Stereo. As the person who originally picked the call, I can say that it was
>chosen to mean "Washington's High Fidelity Station". When, during the course
>of building the station, we decided to start right off in stereo, the meaning
>changed to "Washington's High Fidelity Stereo [station]". Just to set the
>record straight.

Thanks for "the rest of the story"!

WJHU in Baltimore, Obviously Johns Hopkins University, originally 
 student run, then torn away by the university to become a
 dedicated APR station.

-Thomas
 N3HAU

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>From: Bill Corea <lhdsy1!usho01.chevron.com!hwcco@uunet.UU.NET>

I'm not sure whether to "post" this or send it to you for posting in
rec.radio.broadcasting. I've tried both.

 
A couple more call letters:

WJDA (Quincy, Mass): after the original owner: James D. Asher. Now
owned by his son, JDA, Jr.

WSM, (Nashville, Tennessee): after the slogan of the owner: We Shield
Millions, from the National Life and Accident Insurance Company. WSM
is also known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry.  


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>From: alo2@po.CWRU.Edu (Amy L. O'Toole)
>Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)

In a previous article, kramerbr@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Brian Robert Kramer) says:

>>[Moderator's Note:  In Chicago, there are some notable call letter
meanings.
>>WGN - World's Greatest Newspaper (Tribune)
>
><stations deleted to save space> 
>
WVON  Voice Of (the) Negro  (A very old acronym :-) )
>In Milwaukee, there is WTMJ - The Milwaukee Journal.  How about some others?]

Don't forget WLS AM/890 Chicago...once owned by Sears, Roebuck and company--
known in the early part of this century as World's Largest Store! (I read that
in a monitoring magazine)

"W" and "K" calls are the result of two of radio's pioneering companies...
Westinghouse broadcasting and Kaiser broadcasting.

WGAR Cleveland is the founder's initials, George A. Richards
(Richards was also involved in WJR Detroit...sounds a lot alike! There's a
reason for that.

A former Chief Engineer told me of a station on the atlantic seaboard with
calls WIS--wonderful Iodine State.  Got me guessing too.

--Paul Phillips
Middays / Production Director
WDJB, Fort Wayne, IN
...formerly WPHR Cleveland, WGAR Cleveland, WRQN Toledo...

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>From: joeisham@sdf.lonestar.org (Joe Isham)
>Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access

Before the topic gets beaten to death, here are some Texas-area
stations:

Dallas/Ft Worth
KRLD = Radio Laboratories of Dallas
WFAA = Working For All Alike
WBAP = We Bring A Program (* this station was named by then-Commerce
                           secretary Herbert Hoover)
KFJZ = Fort Worth Jazz (now Spanish format)
KGGR = Great Gospel Radio
KVIL = station's studios were originally in Highland Park Village
KLIF = named after the Oak Cliff section of Dallas
KNTU = North Texas State University (which has been renamed University
                                     of North Texas, but the call
                                     letters did *not* change for
                                     obvious reasons!)
KEOM = Educators Of Mesquite (owned by school district)
KETR = East Texas Radio (East Texas State Univ.)
KERA = "new era in broadcasting" (public TV & radio)
KCBI = Criswell Bible Institute
KVTT = Keep Voicing The Truth
KSCS = Stereo Country Station
KPLX = for the Metroplex
KXTX = keeping Christ in Texas (station was owned by Pat Robertson)

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   U         -- Arthur Carlson, "WKRP in Cincinnati"


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