Re: [IRCA] Call letter change
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Re: [IRCA] Call letter change



San Francisco Bay Area had KPO, KYA (San Francisco), KQW (San Jose to San
Francisco), KGO (Oakland to San Francisco), KRE (Berkeley), KLX, KLS
(Oakland).  There were a few here too.

Mike Hawkins

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Faulkner wrote:
> > I think KSD in St. Louis lost its three-letter calls when the radio and
> TV
> > operations were sold to two different companies and the TV station
> wanted
> > the calls.  What is now KTRS operated as KSDK for awhile, I think.
>
> Other way around - KSD radio kept the 3-letter calls when radio and TV
> split. TV became KSDK, and still has those calls. What's now KTRS was
> KUSA for a few years under Gannett. The KSD calls survive on FM 93.7,
> now owned by Clear Channel.
>
> As for cities with multiple 3-letter calls, I think Seattle may actually
> have been the champion: KVI, KXA, KJR, KTW, KOL, plus KMO in Tacoma, not
> to mention KGY down in Olympia. KVI, KJR and KGY survive, and there's
> KKOL and KKMO. (What was KXA is now KTTH; KTW is now KKDZ.)
>
> The canonical list of three-letter calls is here:
>
> http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm
>
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