Re: Tell your conlang story!
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 0:49 |
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:34:19 -0500, Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
wrote:
> --- veritosproject@GMAIL.COM wrote:
>
>> Carsten: All American stations have a 3 or 4 letter
>> station ID with
>> the FCC [snip[. If it's east of the Mississipi River, the
>> first letter is a
>> W, if it's west it's a K.
>
> That east/west of the Mississippi is only generally
> true, not an absolute. Here in Dallas we are very
> much west of the Mississippi. Almost all of our
> stations are of the K*** variety, but one, the
> classical station I normally listen to is of the other
> variety -- WRR 101.1 The Classical One.
Isn't WBAP in or around Dallas, too?
I believe the case is that the USA originally had a single callsign prefix
(W-), and at some point, the international society of radio bigwigs
decided that a second was warranted. Stations west of a certain point (it
may indeed be the Mississippi, I'm not too clear on that point) were
allowed to appeal their renaming, and keep their initial W-. I *think*
transmitter power and audience size were factors in the appeals process.
Paul
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