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Same-market stations with similarly sounding call letters (Radio or TV)

Birmingham: WERC-AM/FM and WBRC-TV (until 1972, WERC-AM and what is now WBPT-FM were co-owned with WBRC-TV).
Fairfield/Birmingham: WJLD, nearby Oneonta once had WKLD-FM (no relation)
Birmingham once had WCRT-AM/FM, Oneonta has long had WCRL (again, no relation between the Birmingham and Oneonta stations, but the two Oneonta stations were co-owned).

Currently in Birmingham: WBHJ (95.7) and WBHK (98.7)...co-owned, different formats.
Former similarity in Birmingham: WBHM (90.3), longtime NPR station, WBMH (106.9, call sign used for less than six months)
Former similarity in Birmingham: WQEZ (96.5, "your 'Q' to EZ listening" from 1972-82), WQEN (103.7, originally a rimshot from Gadsden as CHR Q-104, since 1998, 103-7 the Q and still CHR)
 
Hagerstown, Maryland..

WHAG-TV ( Nexstar ) and WHAG-AM 1410 ( Alpha Media ). Despite sharing the same call letters the two haven't been jointly owned since the 1970s. Come to think of it I don't think WHAG radio was ever in the same building as WHAG-TV with WHAG radio being located in south Hagerstown for many years and WHAG-TV having their studios and offices in a former high rise hotel ( Alexander House ) in downtown Hagerstown since day one back in 1970.

Hampton Roads, VA...
WTKR CBS 3 and WTAR-AM 790 radio. Channel 3 was once WTAR-TV and became WTKR sometime in the early 80s. In the summer of 1987 I can remember seeing WTKR, WTAR and WLTY-FM ( the old WTAR-FM ) all in the same building in downtown Norfolk even though the radio and TV stations were no longer under the same ownership. I believe the now defunct Benchmark Communications Company when they took over WTAR and WLTY moved them out of the WTKR building in the early 90s but I am not all the way sure on that one.
 
KURM-AM 790, Rogers, AR and KURM-FM 100.3, Gravette, AR - Same content on both stations.

WPNE-TV 38, WPT and PBS, and WPNE-FM 89.3, WPR and NPR, in Green Bay, WI
 
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The purpose of this thread still puzzles me. Are there any markets of significant size in which no two (or more) stations share more than the initial W or K in their call signs? Do three radio station, two TV stations, and one former TV station with P in their calls in a city whose name begins with P really constitute "overuse of the letter P"? And really, with no one but radio/TV geeks and old-timers even caring about call letters anymore, is anyone really being confused by these "similar" calls?
 
FreddyE1977 said:
If you're selling ad time for WPGP, my guess is the answer is yes.
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My guess is you're wrong. WPGP is a Christian station on AM. WPGB is a contemporary country station on FM. Looks like neither uses its call letters much on air (AM 1250 The Answer, Big 104.7). Their sales force most likely isn't even mentioning the calls in their sales pitches to potential new customers. So we're back to geeks and geezers again.
 
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