Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2001, 16:59 |
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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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