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CALL LETTER MEANINGS

WTSA Brattleboro and WTSL Hanover, two more in the "Twin State" series owned by Bill Rust. Who knows how WTSN Dover fit that pattern.

WBYY Somersworth - "The Bay"

WSLE (now WFEX) Peterborough - owner John Scott's childern's names (which have slipped from RAM), denied by John; aka WhiStLE

WSCV Peterborough (defunct) "We Serve the Contoocook Valley"

WCNL Newport - "Claremont, Newport, Lebanon"

WECM (now WHDQ) Claremont - "EleCtroMagnetic Corporation", when owned by Chris Dante

Of course, WDCR "Dartmouth College Radio", WNEC "New England College", and WUNH "University of New Hampshire"

WLLH "Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill" - wonder if there were originally plans for a third synchronous transmitter?

WHAV Haverhill - "Haverhill"

WNHI (now WNHW) Belmont - "NH's I-93"

WRCI (now WTPL) Hillsboro - "Rumford Communications, Inc"

WASR Wolfeboro - "Alan Severy Radio" - he denied that too.
 
slipcue said:
Lester Young said:
Oldbones said:
WCFR Carl, Frank, Ruth (original owner's kids)
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Close, but my memory says it is for Carlo, Frank and Randi...Carlo Zezza being the father/owner, Frank and Randi the son/daughter
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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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I guess I stand corrected.

I swear Frank's sister's name was Randi, but obviously I'm wrong.
 
Here's a few more.....

WSHL-FM Easton, MA - "StoneHilL College"
WXRB-FM Dudley, MA - A tribute to X-E-R-B (One of Wolfman Jack's Mexican radio stations in the 60's and 70's, now XEPRS)
WBIM-FM Bridgewater, MA - "Bridgewater Instructional Media" (Bridgewater State College)
WNRC-LP Dudley, MA - "Nichols Radio Club" (Nichols College)
WSKB-FM Westfield, MA - "Westfield State Kollege Broadcasting" (Westfield State College)
WNNE-TV Hanover, NH - "Northern New England"
WEDB-TV Berlin (defunct) - "EDucational Berlin"
WZBC-FM Newton, MA - "Boston College"
WGBH-FM/TV Boston, MA - "Great Blue Hill" (transmitter site)
WGBX-TV Boston - "Great Blue EXperimental"
WGBY-TV Springfield - "Great Blue Yonder"
WCDC-TV Adams, MA - "Capital District, station "C"" (along with WCDA/41 and WCDB/29, both now silent)
WWLP-TV Springfield, MA - "William L. Putnam" (original owner)

73,

Peter Q. George
Whitman, Massachusetts
 
Close, but my memory says it is for Carlo, Frank and Randi...Carlo Zezza being the father/owner, Frank and Randi the son/daughter


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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Weren't both WIKE and WNIX (now WCFR) a call-sign tribute to both President Dwight Eisenhower (as in "I Like IKE") and Vice-President Richard Nixon (of course we all know about him) ? That was what I was told once. Any truth to that?
 
FYI

WFLY stands for Frank Loyd Young, the founder of the station.

WCBB-TV Colby , Bates, Bowdoin

WCVB - Channel V Boston.

WMUR - Francis P MURphy

WGIR - GIRolimon (founder)



Some Springfield area ones
WGGB-TV (Springfield, MA) Guy Gannett Broadcasting
WHYN HolYoke-Northampton
WMAS Moffat, Alfred S (Founder)
WTCC Technical Community College (STCC)
WFCR Five College Radio (formerly Four College Radio)
WPVQ Pioneer Valley "Q"
 
ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
WSCV?? Was that an AM?

I wasn't aware of Peterborough having a station.
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Now, would I lie to you? 1050 khz daytime. Went on about 1967 and was by gone about 1990.

WHAI (now WHMQ) Greenfield - HAIgis (family that was original owner)
WBRL (defunct) - BeRLin (NH)
 
Necrat said:
FYI

WFLY stands for Frank Loyd Young, the founder of the station.

WCBB-TV Colby , Bates, Bowdoin

WCVB - Channel V Boston.

WMUR - Francis P MURphy

WGIR - GIRolimon (founder)



Some Springfield area ones
WGGB-TV (Springfield, MA) Guy Gannett Broadcasting
WHYN HolYoke-Northampton
WMAS Moffat, Alfred S (Founder)
WTCC Technical Community College (STCC)
WFCR Five College Radio (formerly Four College Radio)
WPVQ Pioneer Valley "Q"
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While we're thinking about good old Springfield Here's a few more.....

WSCB-FM Springfield, MA ("Springfield College Broadcasting")
WCCH-FM Holyoke, MA ("Community College Holyoke", probably the BEST 8 watt Stereo signal anywhere!)
WAIC-FM Springfield, MA ("American International College")
WMHC-FM South Hadley, MA ("Mount Holyoke College")

Defunct......
WRND-FM Manchester, NH ("Radio Notre Dame") just barely made it out of the starting gate until the College went "belly up"
WPAA-FM Andover, MA ("Phillips Andover Academy"), no excuse for that station to go silent.
WMMC-FM North Andover, MA ("Merrimack College")
WRSB-FM Weston, MA ("River School Broadcasting")
WSRB-FM Walpole, MA ("Walpole Schools Radio Broadcasting"), sad to see this one wither on the vine. Was a good station.
 
In addition to WPOR and WLAM which I mentioned earlier in this thread, many of the old Maine AM's had calls which simply represented their communities:

WRUM Rumford
WRKD Rockland
WMCS Machias
WBME Belfast ME
WSME Sanford ME
WTVL Waterville
WDME DOVER Foxcroft ME
WHOU Houlton (already mentioned by another poster)

A few more noteworthy ones:

WPNO in Auburn was an audio reflection of it's owner's name: John PINEAU.

WKCG - the Kennebec Country Giant

And, Blue Hill's cleverly conceived community station: WERU - "We - Are- You"

What about WRDO? Did that stand for "RaDiO?"

Nick Seneca


p.s. Jackman ought to have a "JACK FM"
 
OlderRadioGuy

I had been told from a man who worked at WCNL in the early 60's that WCNL stands for Claremont, Newport, New London - with the "N" serving double duty on Newport and New London.
 
dunebugg66 said:
OlderRadioGuy

I had been told from a man who worked at WCNL in the early 60's that WCNL stands for Claremont, Newport, New London - with the "N" serving double duty on Newport and New London.
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I'll stand corrected. And I'd love to know who was there in the 60s that you knew (before my time). Thanks
 
A couple more from the Bangor market:

100.3 WKIT - IIRC before the Kings bought the station when it was an AC and Dutch Heiser was the morning man, they kept using the phrase "Keeping In Touch".

95.7 WWMJ - The M and J were for original owners Richard and Helen Dudman's daughters Martha and ???.

88.5 WHCF - Where He Comes First, I still think it was for the original preacher Herman C. Frankland, but what do I know?

92.9 WEZQ - previously WPBC before the Dudman's bought it. I think it was Penobscot Broadcasting Company.
 
WICN (Worcester) Inter-Collegiate Network
WCUW - (Worcester) Clark University (are they still owned by them?)
WCHC - (Worcester) Holy Cross

Another cool new england one. WHUS at UConn. After their mascot, the HUSkey
 
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