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Any TV Stations That Have Three Of The Same Letters In A Row (Call Letters)

Markxxx

Markxxx

I noticed that WKQX radio in Chicago changed call letters to WWWN

So you have three W's in a row.

I was wondering if there were any TV stations that had this for example WXXX or KYYY or KKKY or WWWQ

For the sake of this thread I don't want to count the suffixes. Like I wouldn't count WYTT-TV as three T's in a row. Or WWCC-CA as having three C's as the third letter is part of a suffix.
 
Too bad this didn't include radio, because Hartford has WCCC-FM 106.9 (our active rock station). I wonder if any TV station in Canada ever had CCC(X) ?
 
KML-224 said:
Too bad this didn't include radio, because Hartford has WCCC-FM 106.9 (our active rock station). I wonder if any TV station in Canada ever had CCC(X) ?
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Nope.

Actually, the CC-- block belongs to Chile; CCCC-TV would be a Chilean callsign.*

There is however a CIII-TV in Ontario, probably far better known to its viewers as "Global". There's also a CHHH-TV in Ootsa Lake, British Columbia. It's a translator.

On FM, there is a CFFF-FM in Peterborough, Ontario, and a CJJJ-FM in Brandon, Manitoba. For some time there was also a CKKK-FM in Peterborough. (not related to CFFF) The latter station is now CJMB.

There is no CBBB, either FM or TV, and to my knowledge there never has been.


* yes, the CB-- block is also Chilean, so calls like CBLT are not technically Canadian. Of course, they made that exception for the benefit of the CBC.
 
WDDD-TV channel 27 in Marion, Illinois ... 1981-1984 (now WTCT).

As for radio, Hattiesburg, Miss. used to have a great set of calls: WXXX

--Russell
 
w9wi said:
There is no CBBB, either FM or TV, and to my knowledge there never has been.
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There was a proposed CBC Stereo station at Brockville, Ontario with the callsign CBBB-FM back in the early 1980s, but it was never built. CBC does not use the 'CBB' prefix for television stations, only some Radio 2 stations and at least one Espace Musique station.

The WWWW calls are now in Ann Arbor on a country station.

I would also think the FCC would not allow any call signs containing 'KKK'. Ironically the Canadian CKKK was a religious station, although the station manager when asked told me it was totally a fluke with Industry Canada that wasn't noticed until after the call letters were assigned. The station branded itself as "KAOS".
 
M.J. said:
I would also think the FCC would not allow any call signs containing 'KKK'.
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In the early '90s, AM 1060 in Phoenix was briefly assigned the call letters KKKQ. Its format was Urban. It very soon thereafter became KUKQ; it's now KDUS. Not coincidentally, the CDBS record of call letters previous to KUKQ have been deleted from the database.
 
KeithE4 said:
M.J. said:
I would also think the FCC would not allow any call signs containing 'KKK'.
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In the early '90s, AM 1060 in Phoenix was briefly assigned the call letters KKKQ. Its format was Urban. It very soon thereafter became KUKQ; it's now KDUS. Not coincidentally, the CDBS record of call letters previous to KUKQ have been deleted from the database.
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Can I point out the irony in an urban station being assigned the call letters KKK(Q)? An urban station in Arizona no less...
 
On the radio side, North Carolina had WAAA 980 in Winston-Salem for many years (now WEGO), and, for a time a WAAA-FM, which is today's 107.5 WKZL. About 40 miles to the east, Burlington's first radio station was WBBB 920 AM, which had a WBBB-FM 101.1 (later WNCB, WPCM, WKXU and now WZTK). In 1998, the WBBB call letters moved further east to 96.1 FM in Raleigh, and 920 became WPCM.

On the subject of the ironic Arizona call letters, a college textbook once had a graph with a hypothetical radio market, employing WAAA, WBBB, WCCC, etc. for the stations listed. I'm sure you can imagine the result when the 11th letter of the alphabet was reached in the graph, but the format of said station was listed as urban :eek:.
 
Scott Fybush said:
KIII Corpus Christi comes immediately to mind...
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Off the top of my head, the only three I can think of on TV are this one, the previously-mentioned defunct KVVV Galveston, and the also previously-mentioned WFFF in Vermont. Oh, and a long-defunct KCCC Sacramento, wasn't it channel 40? (not related to KTXL)

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Regarding CKKK-FM... I've never seen any evidence of the Canadian government assigning callsigns on their own motion -- it sure looks to me as if they're *always* requested by the station. At least, not at any time in the last 20 years. (I know the U.S. was issuing calls in alphabetical order to new stations in the 1920s, and it looks as if the Canadians were doing the same thing. The U.S. "readopted" that practice briefly around ten years ago, though nearly all the stations that got alphabetically-assigned calls changed them before going on the air. But that's why so many American Family Radio stations have KA--, KB--, and WA-- calls.)

(in other words, it sure seems to me as if someone in Peterborough *asked for* CKKK-FM.)

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There's an XHHHN-TV in Mexico.
 
Based on that comment about KVVV 16 Houston...

There used to also be another KVVV in Houston, on Ch. 57, between 1994-2000. It aired ValueVision home shopping programming. It's now KUBE-TV (The KUBE, Independent).

-crainbebo
 
Just out of curiosity does anyone know how these stations ID themselves?

I mean do they say "This is K-Triple I" or K-I-I-I?

I read on an old site while looking this up, that the FCC didn't allow three of the same letters in a row. When did they start allowing this? Anyone know?

Thanks
 
WWWV (FM in Charlottesville VA) goes as "3WV." Legal ID is W-W-W-V.

- Trip
 
Statesville, North Carolina-licensed Charlotte move-in WKKT "96-9 Kat Country" was once known as WOOO "Triple-O 97" from 1973-1981.
 
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