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3-Call Letter Radio Stations

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Wthom100

A while back I found these great chapter sections from Mr. Thomas White's writings on radio broadcast history. Was not sure if this was the correct place to post but I know many of the stations mentioned in this forum are of the 3-call letter variety, are very old, and have great histories (a lot of the Blow-torch stations are mostly very old from what I gather).

Many of you radio buff's that I imagine populate this thread are likely already familar with Mr. Whites documentations on US radio broadcast history.

This chapter looks at the 3-letter call stations in the US, how they they got their call signs and when. Also gives a great accounting through time on which 3-letter call stations survived, which ones where dropped, which ones moved to FM, etc.

The information in this chapter has been updated through January 1, 2013.


Link:
http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm

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They show "KLS" as a call that has "disappeared since 1932", but that one will never go away as long as people keep misspelling "KSL". Even the networks get it wrong when crediting us for news stories.
:D

Good post. I'm gonna save it and read it more closely at lunch.
 
KKLS Rapid City got a lot of mileage out of being the daytime WLS. I'm sure that they would have been KLS if they could have. The 920 daytime dial position was a natural. I have KKLS-FM on tape somewhere from a Sporadic E opening in the 1970s, complete with all the WLS imitation jingles.

In Michigan, WKNX took the call letters from KNX Los Angeles. They were a 10000 watt daytimer on 1210, with a three tower dogleg 1/2 wave array that looked like a Class I-B installation. Their TV station, WKNX-TV, was originally Channel 57, then moved to Channel 25 in the mid 1960s. They were a CBS affiliate, of course. They are now WEYI-TV on physical channel 30 and are an NBC affiliate. NBC seemed like a good idea when they swapped with WNEM-TV. This year, NBC is the #5 network, even behind Univision.
 
Here in the Philadelphia area, we still have KYW(AM-1060 and TV Ch. 3, both owned by CBS) and WIP(AM-610, also CBS-owned).
 
Around these parts we have KEX (1190 kHz), KXL (750 kHz/101.1 MHz [formarly 95.5 MHz]) and KGW (channel 8.)

The latter also used to be an AC station on 620 kHz until sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
 
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