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

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Thursday, July 12, 2001, 16:59
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 (post independance Philippine stations, for ex., have callsign assignments in KX-- through KZ-- or similar). They were US territory before 1946, and so had K--- callsigns like any other western territory. See <www.ipass.net/~whitetho/> for more.
>What happens when all possible four-letter combinations have been used, >will everyone switch to 5 letter ones?
Possibly. There are "deletions", though, like when a station changes format and they want to get rid of an inappropriate callsign.
>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. Padraic.
>t.

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