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Do you remember stations with letter/number nicknames?

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raccoonradio

Someone here mentioned WROR and I remember when the 105.7 freq lic. to Framingham was
WVBF...and I also remember how they used to have a nickname: "F-105"

These days such nicknames are first names (Jack, Jill, Mike, Hank, Frank--even XM gets into the
act with, I kid you not, Fred, Ethel, and Lucy) or animal monikkers (The Fox, The Wolf,
Bear, Froggy, etc.) But for awhile, and maybe still today in some places you had letter/number
nicknames. Yeah, take one or two letters and a ref to the frequency and there you go:

WVBF 105.7

WMEX 1510

Oops, now that I think of it some still are in use! "B-101" Prov; Seacoast area used to have "B-95.3"
(now the Kiss simulcast, right?)

Any from the area I can't remember?
 
also on a slight tangent, how about stations who rounded off their frequencies?

(jingle): "Ninety-four....WCGY" (93.7 actually)
Chopping off the last digit:
"WBZ 103(0)"
"68(0) WRKO"
"Radio 8" (800 AM, WCCM)
"85(0), WHDH"

and
"Rock 94 and a half, WCOZ" (94.5)

Of course some AM radios, expecially in the past, had rounded off spots on the dial

"5.4--7--9--11-13-15" or certainly
"54--70--90--110--130--150" ("x10 kHz")
 
Stations with letters as names, and rounded frequencies is really not that rare of a thing, if you look in areas outside of the Boston market.
 
Didn't WKNE Keene use "K1037" for awhile? In that same market there was WHDQ as Q106 and WBFL did rock as B107 in the early 90's.
 
I think the trend now is to say the number with the nickname. In Nashville, we have:

94-FM The Fish
95-5 The Wolf
96-3 Jack FM
97-1 RQQ
101-1 The Beat Jams
102-5 The Party
102-9 The Buzz
103-WKDF
104-5 The Zone
105-9 The Rock
107-5 The River
 
How about "Y-102" WLYN-FM 101.7.. Wasn't 100.7 in Boston known as "TK 101" somewhere along the way before becoming WZLX ??
 
Are you old enough to remember pre-Kiss as "WWEL" all was "Well" with those easy listening sounds going heads up against then easy listening champion WJIB-FM 97..
 
I read about it on the web, however I never tuned into it pre-Kiss 108 though. I do remember when Kiss first signed on that they were a full fledged disco station only playing bits and pieces of tracks, just like the clubs were doing. (not that I was old enough to actually be in a club at all, much less cross the street by myself either.) ;D
 
Again, the disclaimer of being rather young at the time. The town I grew up around Boston and the pack I ran with was more into WCOZ and BCN'.. Disco Kiss, at the time, had these black long bumper stickers with Kiss 108 and the 'kiss' lips in red lettering.. A common practice was to blacken out the "108" and repaint the stickers in red with the word 'off' next to the word Kiss.. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who partook in something goofy like that.. Still have a few WCOZ bumper stickers kicking around.. "Kick Ass Rock and Roll"...
 
Gadon said:
Again, the disclaimer of being rather young at the time. The town I grew up around Boston and the pack I ran with was more into WCOZ and BCN'.. Disco Kiss, at the time, had these black long bumper stickers with Kiss 108 and the 'kiss' lips in red lettering.. A common practice was to blacken out the "108" and repaint the stickers in red with the word 'off' next to the word Kiss.. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who partook in something goofy like that.. Still have a few WCOZ bumper stickers kicking around.. "Kick Ass Rock and Roll"...
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Those "KISS-lips" had to be the most irritating logo to ever be put on a billboard or bumper sticker, anywhere. I had to laugh while driving in the car at the time seeing how some of the KISS billboards were "modified somewhat" by some local kids. I personally hated disco, but anyone who had the guts, the paint and the b**ls to climb up on the billboards had to be either deranged or had to be a big rock fan. They must have been nuts. Fortunately, disco died a well deserved death. The KISS of today bears little resemblance to the station that debuted in late 1978. I'll have to admit, Medford's 107.9 has never been a preset on my car radio since '78.

I was a big WAAF fan, back when it was a real Worcester station.
 
cheapman said:
WXLO in Fitchburg (Worcester) used to be M-104. Late 70's early 80's. M supposedly stood for "music."
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WFMP/104.5 in Fitchburg used "M-104" as their moniker in late 1979, when the station switched from Country (in mono) to Drake/Chenault's Contempo 500 format (in Stereo). They called it "Music 104" for a brief period in late 1979. Before they went to full-power in the 80's, they used an antenna originally cut for 104.7 (WFMP's original frequency). Either the move to 104.5 was as a result of 104.9 (Simon Geller's WVCA) being dropped into Gloucester in 1964 or Cape Cod wanted a frequency for Orleans. Either way, the signal from the old site was pretty bad and spotty. It was amazing that the old 104.7 antenna handled Stereo on 104.5 in the first place. Now, as WXLO, the signal really goes far and wide. Before 104.5 fired up in Conway, NH, WXLO had a solid signal on the Kancamangus Highway especially near Passaconaway. I got it on a cheap SONY FM radio.
 
Those "KISS-lips" had to be the most irritating logo to ever be put on a billboard or bumper sticker, anywhere.
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I've got some WRKO music surveys from I believe the late '70's where th "O" is big red lips.On the surveys around Christmas the "O" was a green wreath.
 
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