Re: [IRCA] Call letter change

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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