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

[TheRob]

I'm pretty sure San Francisco's KXXX was KXXX-FM. Colby has had KXXX on 790 as long a I can remember

In the eastern side of the state of Kansas, we had KKKX (the current KCHZ 95.7 the Vibe) in the '70s and '80s.

I've been to Corpus, but I don't recall KIII calling themselves K-triple-I, or anything other than "3 News" for that matter.

 

[azumanga]

There was once a KKKK in the Midland-Odessa, Texas market.

Not a good idea to put three "K"s in a row.

But would it make a difference if there was four "K"s in a row?

 

[Charles1]

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But would it make a difference if there was four "K"s in a row?
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Only in baseball!

 

[recto101]

I'm pretty sure San Francisco's KXXX was KXXX-FM. Colby has had KXXX on 790 as long a I can remember

In the eastern side of the state of Kansas, we had KKKX (the current KCHZ 95.7 the Vibe) in the '70s and '80s.

I've been to Corpus, but I don't recall KIII calling themselves K-triple-I, or anything other than "3 News" for that matter.

KXXX San Francisco was a CHR at 99.7 FM back in 1988 to 1990 before it became 99.7 KFRC in 1990.


heres the 1989 aircheck of KXXX San Francisco X-100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt1Dl4JttE

 

[Kent]

Rob is correct that X-100 in San Francisco was KXXX-FM. They changed to KXXX-FM from KYUU not long after the FCC decided calls with an "-FM" suffix would be considered separate from the same calls on the AM.

By the way, what really makes the most sense with KIII is that III is 3 in Roman numerals.

 

[recto101]

Rob is correct that X-100 in San Francisco was KXXX-FM. They changed to KXXX-FM from KYUU not long after the FCC decided calls with an "-FM" suffix would be considered separate from the same calls on the AM.

By the way, what really makes the most sense with KIII is that III is 3 in Roman numerals.

So the FCC decided when -TV or -FM suffix would be included in calls was when CBS wanted the KCBS-TV calls for the KNXT2 spot and when CBS wanted the KCBS-FM calls to move from 97.3 fm to 93.1 KKHR. I heard back in the 1970's it was illegal for call letters to occupy more than 1 city at the same time according to the FCC. KTLK in LA and Twin Cities occupy more than one city just like KCBS does. Look at KNBC 680 AM and 99.7FM in San Francisco back in the 1960's NBC had to Change the San Francisco KNBC to KNBR so KNBC can go on Channel 4 in LA.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Used to be you couldn't have the initials of the President or a Federal agency.

If they were still banned, there wouldn't be a WJFK (Washington), KLBJ (Austin) or WCIA (Champaign) today.

I've seen KMEX, KVDA and WXTV news opens from the 90s-early 2000s. All spell out the call letters in Spanish.

I don't know if there is an English-language requirement for audio IDs, but as long as they display the ID visually, it doesn't matter what language they use.

KLBJ was owned by LBJ's family, so I'm sure that would have been fine.

 

[vchimpanzee]

You're right! The calls were used in Lakeland for channel 32. What made me say Charlotte?

But the Charlotte station was WWWB.

 

[vchimpanzee]

KWEX San Antonio identified itself in Spanish in the 1970s.

In the early '70s I was talking with an employee of WBRC
Birmingham, who told me that the initials of a federal agency
could not be used as call letters. I reminded him of the existence
of WCIA. No comeback.

I'm sure I remember a WIRS.

Anyway, Wikipedia has those calls listed for a Puerto Rico TV station.

 

[JeeperOne]

Used to be you couldn't have the initials of the President or a Federal agency.

If they were still banned, there wouldn't be a WJFK (Washington), KLBJ (Austin) or WCIA (Champaign) today.

Not only that but KUSA & WUSA would likely still have their former KBTV & WTOP calls too

Plus KBTV 4 in Texas would be known as something else

Cheers

 

[JeeperOne]

But would it make a difference if there was four "K"s in a row?

Only in baseball!

And in a certain cult which we shall keep nameless & faceless for (What should be) obvious reasons

Cheers

 

[JeeperOne]

Used to be you couldn't have the initials of the President or a Federal agency.

If they were still banned, there wouldn't be a WJFK (Washington), KLBJ (Austin) or WCIA (Champaign) today.

I've seen KMEX, KVDA and WXTV news opens from the 90s-early 2000s. All spell out the call letters in Spanish.

I don't know if there is an English-language requirement for audio IDs, but as long as they display the ID visually, it doesn't matter what language they use.

KLBJ was owned by LBJ's family, so I'm sure that would have been fine.

In fact, wasn't that station owned by Ladybird Johnson herself?

I've been watching & downloading some old clips of the JFK Assassination on YouTube lately (There's some radio archives on there too) & Walter Cronkite mentions it during the CBS coverage

Cheers

 

[KML0224]

The Johnson family had ownership of KTBC-TV channel 7 from its 1952 sign-on until they sold it in 1973 to Times-Mirror.

 

[trusty]

Four pages, plenty of radio calls, but not a single mention of 3WE (WWWE) in Cleveland? Now Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100, of course.

But WWWE still exists in Atlanta as a daytime AM station ... on 1100 of course! (I think they used "3WE" before they went Spanish, but not sure.)

 

[Ultimajock]

There used to be a WWWW in Detroit. (Maybe still is.) Their announcer introduced Bob Seger to the audience at Cobo Hall in Detroit on the Live Bullet album (1975 or 1976).

...both Steve Dahl (of "Disco Demolition" infamy) and Howard Stern worked at WWWW; Stern's tenure there was recreated in his film Private Parts...

 

[dhett]

Las Vegas NV has a phantom LPTV station KBBB-LD. The station is licensed, but has never broadcast anything, going back to its days as a Kingman AZ station.

Another radio station I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned, and it even has a link to TV: WWWG (3WG) 1460 AM Rochester NY. The station, originally full-service WHEC, became top-40 WAXC in 1972, then became all-news station 3WG in 1978 or 1979. I remember TV commercials featuring at least one member of the WHEC-TV news staff, meteorologist John Hambleton, and the most unusual set of call letters I had ever seen. The all-news format was very brief, and mostly forgotten. The station flipped to Contemporary Christian soon afterward. It became Catholic station WHIC in 2003.

 

[compubit]

I have heard KIII referred on-air as "K-triple-I", but the IDs always had the KIII Corpus Christi on screen...

J

 

[desertv]

Las Vegas NV has a phantom LPTV station KBBB-LD. The station is licensed, but has never broadcast anything, going back to its days as a Kingman AZ station.

Which I imagine was owned by the same people in Kingman who ran radio stations KAAA(AM) and KZZZ(FM)