Re: Call Signs (was: Tell your conlang story!)

Re: WSB - I've heard that it stands for "Southern Broadcasting", but
that could jiust be a folk etymology/urban legend.  The TV station is
affiliated with ABC.

Re: TN sports fanatacism: Go Vols!! :)  seriously, the area code thing
is pretty hardcore.  I'm impressed, in a horrified way.
I dispute the phonetic rendering of Knoxville (home of the 1982
World's Fair - you've got to BE... THERE"). In the native accent, the
-ville ending is not [v@l] but [vL=] (assuming I have the CXS for
"dark" l right).  This also applies to Gainesville, GA; I dunno how
they pronounce it down in FL.

On 3/1/06, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> Don't forget about KQV. Does that station still exist in Western
> Pennsylvania?
>
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> From: Patrick Littell <puchitao@...>
> Date: Mar 1, 2006 12:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Call Signs (was: Tell your conlang story!)
> To: d_n@nutter.net
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> Hmm, Pittsburgh has KDKA.  But that was before they had any Ws -- it
> was the first commercial radio station, and got its call letters from
> the ship and shore station roster (those being the only regular radio
> services that were formally licensed by the federal government).  I
> don't know if the K meant anything then; all I know is that KDKA
> happened to be the next ship/shore station callsign.  It was broadcast
> from a little shack on top of the Westinghouse "K" building, but I
> think that's just coincidence.
>
> Probably when the W/K split happened they were allowed to keep their
> callsign.  Maybe for commercial reasons, maybe just for historical
> reasons -- it was the first radio station callsign assigned.
>
> -- Pat
>
> On 2/28/06, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
> > > That east/west of the Mississippi is only generally
> > > true, not an absolute.  Here in Dallas we are very
> > > much west of the Mississippi.  Almost all of our
> > > stations are of the K*** variety, but one, the
> > > classical station I normally listen to is of the other
> > > variety -- WRR 101.1 The Classical One.  (It is indeed
> > > the one and only classical station within tuning
> > > distance of Dallas/Ft. Worth.)
> >
> > First I've heard of anything different.  Maybe it's just a name and not
> > and actual call sign.  Interestingly when I lived in New Orleans, they
> > had stations with both W- and K- call signs depending upon which side of
> > the river they were on.  This applied to commercial radio and television
> > though.  Ham radio call signs use a different system and may also begin
> > with N- or A-.   The U.S. also separates the FM band in to commercial
> > (>92 MHz) and non-commercial (< 92 MHz).  Makes it easy to avoid all
> > those noisy and obnoxious commercial stations.
> >
> > http://www.eham.net/newham/callsigns
> >
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>