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B106.3 Will Get New Call Letters

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Looks like B106.3's current callsign of WNEW are going to be shipped off to D.C.

So what will their new call letters be? Could they get their old WJBW call letters back? You'd figure there would have to be at least one "B" in the new callsign, right?
 
Done and done. 106.3's new calls are........WHFS.

They were heritage calls from a Baltimore/DC area rock station that was knocked off for a Spanish-language format 5 or 6 years ago, and lives on as an HD2 channel in DC.
 
Mainly, why call yourselves B-anything if there is no "B" in the calls?

Are there any other US stations like *that*?

cd
 
None of which I can think. There's Philadelphia's B101 (WBEB), for example. And didn't the "J" in WJBW refer to Jupiter, the station's city of license?
 
cd637299 said:
Mainly, why call yourselves B-anything if there is no "B" in the calls?
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Because call letters don't mean much to the average listener.

Are there any other US stations like *that*?
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There aren't many, but B-106.3 isn't the only station to do that. Another example is "B-92.9" in Modesto, CA. Their call letters are still KOSO, which is because their tower used to be on Mt. Oso. I believe it's since moved because Clear Channel dropped another station into Sacramento on 93.1, which required a downgrade of KOSO's signal, a frequency change and, I think, a transmitter move. However, Mt. Oso is still an important landmark in that part of California.

Something else to consider is that the practice of using a brand without matching calls has actually gone on for a long time. In the 70's and 80's, a decent number of beautiful music stations referred to themselves as "EZ" without having those two letters together in their calls.
 
ScottBurns said:
None of which I can think. There's Philadelphia's B101 (WBEB), for example. And didn't the "J" in WJBW refer to Jupiter, the station's city of license?
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No...It was a throwback to its' previous "JukeBox" Standards format. When CBS bought the station, they never bothered to (initially) change the calls....."Jukebox" moved to AM, and former sister station AM1000 also got the WJBW calls, it still has them.

For a while there were 2 stations in the same market with different owners that were both "WJBW".
 
Interesting thing about the 99.(1?) station is that with their tower between Balti and DC, they are the only FM station that puts a strong signal into both markets. Everyone else is either in one or the other.
 
ScottBurns said:
...There's Philadelphia's B101 (WBEB)...
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... which is still legally owned by something called "WEAZ Radio, Inc." - despite dumping those call letters some twenty years ago...
 
DToTheJ said:
ScottBurns said:
...There's Philadelphia's B101 (WBEB)...
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... which is still legally owned by something called "WEAZ Radio, Inc." - despite dumping those call letters some twenty years ago...
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That's the name on the license. Often different than the owner. Many Clear Channel stations are still listed as licensed to Capstar.
 
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