Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)

* Padraic Brown said on 2001-07-12 18:59:25 +0200
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> >What's the deal with the four-letter codenames for US radio-stations?
>
> Three and four, actually (ex., WOR). The rules that govern it
> apparently go back to 1912 or so; and are international in
> scope [..] See <www.ipass.net/~whitetho/> for more.
>
> >In Yooroop (the pieces of it
> >that I've been to at least), radio-stations got real names, nicknames
> >and short forms/abbreviations.
>
> I'm pretty sure they'd have callsigns as well. It's a matter
> of international regulation of broadcast bands, etc.
Ah, but they aren't used as the name of the station! That is: they
never say it on the air (if they have one), and non-radio people never
use it to refer to the station. I almost wound up with a callsign
myself, dabbled in ham radio until the Evil that is the Internet (and
my computer club) pretty much took over my life for a couple of years.


t.

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