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

From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)


| Well, there are some three-letter names too, generally of long-established
| stations.
| Where the use of letters came from in the first place, I don't know,
| however.
| Somewhere along the way, it was decreed that stations EAST of the
| Mississippi should begin with W, those to the West with K-- but there are a
| few exceptions:  KDKA in Pittsburgh (actually IIRC one of the very first
| commercial stations), WOW (or is it WHO; long time since I heard it) in
| Omaha; or WCCO Minneapolis, which is _on_ but mostly West of the Miss..  I
| suppose if necessary we could divide the country into three or more regions,
| with maybe Z,X,Q etc.  prefix.....Or, as we've had to do with telephone
| exchanges, go to all-numeric.

Dallas has both a TV station (WFAA 8, the ABC affiliate) and an AM-radio station
(WBAP).  Waco, south of DFW, has a country music radio station with the call
letters, yes... WACO.

Mexico uses X for all its stations, so it's taken.  Canada uses C.  I prefer Q
myself.

~DaW~


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