From: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us (Several Posters)
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: airwaves
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:50:30 GMT

>From: jwg@acd4.acd.com ( Jim Grey )
>Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN


In article <1992Aug24.223853.22765@gagme.chi.il.us> kramerbr@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Brian Robert Kramer) writes:
>Summit Broadcasting has WONE AM and WTUE FM in Dayton.  When they first went
>on with those call letters, it was supposed to represent One and Two. (wONE &
>wTUE) They just couldn't get WTWO I guess.                              
 
WTWO is a TV station here in Terre Haute.  You'll never guess where they are
on the dial.  They've been on the air since, I think, 1967 or so.
 
I work part time for the local rock station, 107.5 WZZQ.  My PD used to work
for WTUE; I think that's where he got his radio start some years ago.  Still
wears his satin WTUE jacket out and about. 
  
jim grey
jwg@acd4.acd.com


>From: weaver@kuttner.sfc.Sony.COM (Eric Weaver)
>Organization: For this they pay you?

KFJC - "Foothill Junior College" as it was then known.
-- 
Eric Weaver  Sony AVTC  677 River Oaks Pkwy, MS 35  SJ CA 95134  408 944-4904

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>From: netxcom!jwc%netex.netx.com@uunet.UU.NET (Jeff Comer)
>Organization: NetExpress 


rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us (R.R.B. Moderator) writes:
>WGN - World's Greatest Newspaper (Tribune)
>WLS - World's Larghest Store (Once owned by Sears)
>WIND  Indiana (once licenced to Gary Indiana, transmitter still there.
>WCFL  Chicago Federation (of) Labor
>WJPC  Johnson Publishing Company
>WBBM  We Broadcast Beautiful Music (previously We Bcast (frm the) BroadMoore)
>WMBI  Moody Bible Institute
>WOPA  Oak Park Arms
>WVON  Voice Of (the) Negro  (A very old acronym :-) )
>In Milwaukee, there is WTMJ - The Milwaukee Journal.  How about some others?]

I will skip the numerous college stations that reflect the initials of their
institutions (WUNH = Univ of New Hampshire, etc.).

WGMS	Washington's Good Music Station (DC classical station)
WHFS	Washington High-Fidelity Stereo (DC-area pioneer FM broadcaster)
WRNL	Richmond (VA) News-Leader (owner of station)
WWVA	Wheeling, West Va.
WRVA	Richmond, VA

Of course, some of these (particularly WGMS) may be derived from the call,
where the slogan may have been "fitted" around the call.

--
Jeffrey W Comer * jwc@netx.com * 703-749-2369 (v) * 703-749-2375 (fax)
"We will, we will, rock you!" -George Bush (U-2)

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>From: C_S02254@appstate.edu (Jon C Austin)
>Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY

In Raleigh, NC, there is WPTF, started by an insurance company,
as "We Protect the Family," the the previous job  or NC's infamous
senator Jesse Helms.

Jon Austin
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC  
"In the heart of the Blue Ridge"

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>From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
Organization: UB

In Buffalo:

    WBEN - Buffalo Evening News
    WKBW (now WWKB) - Well Known Bible Works.  WKBW-TV now uses it to mean
                      We Know Buffalo's Watching


                                   Scott


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>Organization: University of Maine System
>From: Robert A. Sobczak <SOBCZAK%MAINE.MAINE.EDU@VM1.gatech.edu>


They say that WBLM, Portland stands for "We Believe in the Legalization of
Marijuana"

It has also been said that WRSC, State College, PA stands for "We Rape State
College"  in reference to business i guess.

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