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

From: "Padraic Brown" <pbrown@...>
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> >Callsigns are assigned by the FCC (part of the US
> >federal government) and are not handed out on the whim of the recipient.
>
> I doubt that WABC was arbitrarily assigned to the American
> Broadcasting Corporation's station in NYC. Same with two
> local stations, WMAL (M.A.L., I understand, are the initials
> of the station's founder or first owner) and WJOK (defunct),
> an all comedy station. Also WBAL, a BALtimore station and
> WAMU, American University station. If I recall right, Univ.
> of Maryland at College Park's station is WUMC.
Hehe.  And UT Chattanooga has WUTC, and my school SAU, formerly SMC, has
WSMC.  I don't know of any other local stations so transparently lettered,
though.

    *Muke!

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