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CALL LETTER MEANINGS

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Does WHOM stand for High ON Mountain?
WLNH...Laconia New Hampshire?
you guys have any other calling letter meanings in Northern New England?
 
WTSV Twin State Valley
WCFR Carl, Frank, Ruth (original owner's kids)
WMTW (former calls of WHOM as well as Ch. 8) MT Washington
WLTN LittleToN, N.H.
WBRL BeRLin, N.H.
WERZ We R Z-107
WKNE Keene
WKBR (the last initials of the 3 men who put it on the air...the "R" was Rust, forget the other two)
WZID "Wizard" (handle used when they first switched to elevator music format in the early 70s)
WWRJ (now WNHV) White River Junction
 
A few Boston stations in here... but worth mentioning.

WXKS- KisS 108
WJMN- JaMN 94.5
WZRT- Z97.1
WFLY- Fly 92.3 (Albany NY)
WMKK- MiKe FM
WXRV- The RiVer
WWHK- The HawK (formerly known as)
WTPL- The PuLse
WCRB- Charles River Broadcasting? or Classical Radio Boston? maybe both.
WBMX- MiX 104.1
 
I may be but "fuzzy" on this but I believe a couple "heritage" call letters in the Burlington market came from the names of the wives of the former owners of the stations:

WJOY (Reportedly named after the late Frank Balch's wife "Joy")
WDOT (Supposedly named after "Dot", the wife of the founder of that station when it was on 1400)

Someone more familiar with the market may be able to verify this.

Another one: WVBF in Framingham-Boston (when they flipped from WKOX-FM.) Supposedly after Virginia Fairbanks, the wife of the company's founder.

Makes me think...I'm divorced because my 'ex said I was married to radio.... DUH !! (I should have named a station after her.) Can you feel the love ??
 
WGUY (Guy) WGAN (Gannett)
WCSH Congress Square Hotel
WMTW Mt.Washington
WLOB the LOBster Network (I'm not kidding)
WPOR pretty obvious
WABK Abenaki
WBLM Beautiful Lewiston Maine
WLAM Lewiston Auburn Maine
WTHT "The Hits" (this was the station's slogan when it flipped from WGAN-FM)
WQDY PassamaQuoDY
WFAU WCOU (deceased) FAUst COUture - an early Maine radio station owner
WGHM (previous calls of WSKW) "Golden Heart of Maine" - very lyrical!

Not sure about WHOM. I worked there in sales for a couple of years but never heard that the calls had a meaning. I do know that the calls were in use on 1480 AM in New York City just before 94.9 picked 'em up.

Nick Seneca
 
Owner of WDLW 1330 (Waltham MA) in late 70s picked calls--initials of his girlfriend, Diane L. White I believe

WAZN= "Asian"
WKOX=We're Kind of eXcited
WNSH Beverly= North SHore (at one time calls were WBVD for BeVerly-Danvers. "BVD--The First Thing You
Put On In The Morning")
WJDA= James D Asher
WCAS (now WJIB) Watertown-Cambridge-Arlington-Somerville
 
One of my favs from Ma. is
WATD...We're At The Dump

and I think the transmitter or studios were actually near the Marshfield town dump!
 
I always was led to believe that WBLM stood for.. "We Believe in Legalized 'Mari-hwa-onna" ;)

WHDH - We have dead haddock !
WEEI - Edison Electric Illumination
 
From All Over New England:

WXNE tv 25 in Boston = Christ in New England (Now WFXT)
WODS Boston = OlDieS
It doesn't but people used to think WGBH Boston stood for God Bless Harvard
WARL Attleboro, MA originally stood for a failed internet venture called Web Access Radio Live. Later when they switched to Standards "We're All-star Radio Legends".
WBCN = Boston's Concert Network (along with WHCN Hartford's Concert Newtwork and WNCN New york's Concert Network)
WLAT New Britain, CT LATino Radio (orignally on 1230 Manchester, CT)
WNEZ Manchester, CT New Britain's EZ listenting station (calls used to be on 910 in New Britain. Stood for the beautiful music format they picked up after sister station 100.5 flipped from Beautiful Music to Soft AC). Later the calls stood for NEwZ (Beautiful Music format on 910 didn't last long. Became a relay of CNN Headline News and ESPN Radio NewsSports 910 CNN)
 
WSHD 91.7 Eastport ME SHeaD High School
WUMM 91.7 Machias ME Univ. of Maine Machias
WJTO 730 "Watch Jets Take Off" referring to the nearby and recently closed Brunswick Naval Air Station (This straight off jibguy's WJTO Website wjto.com)


WABI ex-910 AM, now only on TV5 "We're At Bangor International" ;)
WHOU 100.1 HOUlton, Maine
WVII TV Bangor "ABC7 Bangor (VII=Roman Numeral 7) formerly WEMT TV Eastern Maine Television

WLBZ "We're Little BZ" ?? ;)
 
Lester Young said:
Oldbones said:
WCFR Carl, Frank, Ruth (original owner's kids)
Click to expand...

Close, but my memory says it is for Carlo, Frank and Randi...Carlo Zezza being the father/owner, Frank and Randi the son/daughter
Click to expand...

Actually, it's Carlo, Frank and Ruth - the children of Carlos Zezza who purchased WNIX and changed the calls to CFR. Frank and Ruth still live in the Springfield VT area.
 
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