[IRCA] Three letter calls

[Stan Weisbeck <stanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think someone already mentioned that KGY 1240 Olympia, WA, is another three letter call on a local channel.  I heard them in Spokane (300 miles away) for the first time only about a year ago.

Doesn't KWG 1230 Stockton, CA, still exist?  I've never heard them but I'd love to.

My local KTRW 630 Opportunity, WA (suburb of Spokane) uses the slogan "KTW" I think as a reference to the old KTW 1250 Seattle.  KTRW runs conservative talk and some religious programming.  I actually worked for them back in the late 70s/early 80's when they were KZUN, initially running MOR (middle of the road) music and then went C&W to compliment their then FM sister KZUN-FM 96.1, which had gone C&W.  630 changed calls to KGGR while I was still there and took on an oldies format.  This was in 1982 and I left in 1983 to work at KXLY 920 and KXLY-TV.  630 has been through numerous call changes and ownership changes since then.

The KTRW calls were originally, in this market at least, on 970, which is now KTTO Sacred Heart (Catholic) radio. That was in 1988 when the station changed format to traditional country and used the slogan "True Country."

Prior to that, 970 was KZZU and simulcast then sister station KZZU-FM 92.9 with Top 40 music.  KZZU(FM) is still Top 40. 96.1 FM here is back to C&W, after at least a couple format changes over the years, with the call letters KIXZ and uses the slogan "Kicks 96."

Stan Weisbeck
Spokane, WA 
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