Radio Fans - Call Letter Assignments

[MrTShirt]

In case any of you radio fans wondered about the call letter assignment, read this:

https://medium.com/knowledge-stew/the-s ... e52fff3e02

Now if each brothel could be given a radio license...
(PS:  What call letters would work for your favorite house?)

[Nelspot]

Thank you for sharing.  Having been raised in NY, my dad told me how the stations west of the Mississippi started with "K" and the ones east, the only ones I was familiar with, started with a "W", but I didn't know about the early TX/NM border thing, so thanks for the info.  I'm a bit smarter now than I was this morning.

When I was a kid, every Sunday the family would listen to a station out of Schenectady, NY, which had been owned by General Electric (not Westinghouse) with 3 letters, WGY.  That was the only one I knew of that had three letters, at least when I was a kid.  Now, living out west, I hear powerful 3 letter stations all the time at night -- KNX, KFI, KOA, KOB, and KSL (the last being in Salt Lake City, so it incorporated the city's initials into the call sign). Of course, there are a lot of small stations with the 4-letter callsigns that represent the town or locations they are in, but my favorite is in Elmira, NY -- WENY.  I can't imagine telling anyone where you work and still keeping a straight face!

If I could suggest callsigns for a brothel, they'd be: KBJ, KSEX, KASS, KISS, KUNT, KOCK or if they could have numbers in the callsign,  K69S !!!  Of course, that's for houses west of the Mississippi ...

[Chicagobob]

Here's a leg-wetting fact about WLS in Chicago.  They were originally on the air to promo Sears to farmers!  Worlds Largest Store (WLS).

[MrTShirt]

Here's a leg-wetting fact about WLS in Chicago.  They were originally on the air to promo Sears to farmers!  Worlds Largest Store (WLS).

Sounds like they were 100 years ahead of Amazon.

[rachelvarga]

Visionaries.

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