Just something to remember. KKDJ was first a radio station in Los Angeles.
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If you watch the movie "Aloha Bobby and Rose", you will hear a sound clip with the song Benny and the Jets by Elton John from that station. It is at the beginning and the end of the movie.
I seem to remember the KKDJ call was in Bakersfield for a short time
Maybe you're thinking of KKXX.... ?
Why would any station in markets that are over half Hispanic use any call letter combo with "KaKa" together?
Maybe not a factor in the 70's, but worth thinking about today when non-Hispanic white audiences are a distinct minority in many cities in CA.
If the station is broadcasting in English, why does it matter how the call letters sound in Spanish? Besides, in English, the pronunciation is "kay kay" not "kah kah." Are Spanish-dominant listeners to an English-language station playing English-language, non-ethnic music (all three of them) really going to be offended by an ID that sounds like it's asking them "What? What?"
Because many bilinguals who listen to English language radio will see the calls on RDS and or other displays and read in their more dominant language.
I do the same thing... I think Spanish letters even when I am typing in English because I've been wired that way for more than half a century.
Again, though, what harm does it do to the station if some folks who probably never listen to the station get a Beavis and Butt-head-esque ha-ha out of seeing letters that sound like a baby-talk "naughty word" on RDS? Or are they offended? Poooooor little snowflakes will fill Facebook with manufactured outrage? So be it, again it is very unlikely to affect the station's listenership or advertisers. Either way, I'm not convinced that it's a big deal.
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