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Starbucks said:
That was another odd station.....What kind of call letters are KNBA...when your country. It doesn't quite mix.
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I had been confused by that as well. I had thought that the idea was to trick people into thinking it was KNBR or something. One time I asked Lou Ripa if the call letters stood for anything. Yes they did. North Bay Area. Also, he knew they were available without having to pay anyone to search (which people did at the time) because they had recently been deleted from the VOA Dixon site.

Oh, and KTOB stands for Top Of the Bay. And KTIM was The Independent Marin (the Independent owned them). KDIA stood for the daughter of the original owner of WDIA its twin in Memphis. Her name was Diana. To this day I have no idea what KWUN stood for. Wunderful? Heaven help us!
 
DavidKaye said:
Starbucks said:
That was another odd station.....What kind of call letters are KNBA...when your country. It doesn't quite mix.
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I had been confused by that as well. I had thought that the idea was to trick people into thinking it was KNBR or something. One time I asked Lou Ripa if the call letters stood for anything. Yes they did. North Bay Area. Also, he knew they were available without having to pay anyone to search (which people did at the time) because they had recently been deleted from the VOA Dixon site.
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I have a letter from Lou Ripa, on KNBA stationery, in my collection. On it is the proclamation "Kovers North Bay Area."

Keep forever radiating cheer!

DJ
 
This from my post under the thread "Radio Call Letters--Do They Mean Anything:"

Examples of "vanity" call letters are:

KROY -- Royal Miller (original owner/licensee, 1937)
KBEE -- Modesto Bee (both AM & FM) (McClatchy Newspapers?)
KXOA
KXOB
KXOC -- All sister stations in Northern California (KXOA became KIID Radio Disney, KXOB became KJOY, KXOC became KPAY)
KCRA -- Was supposed to be "KRCA," but an FCC typist made a mistake and flipped the two middle call letters around...anyway, KRCA was chosen because of its NBC affiliation
KTOB -- KTop Of Bay
KVON -- KVoice Of Napa
KECC -- KEastern Contra Costa (became KKIS) (thanks BossRadioDJ)
KNBA -- KNorth Bay Area
KSTN -- KSTocktoN
KTKZ -- K-Talk(Z) (K-Talks)
KVFS -- KVacaville Fairfield Suisun (became KUIC)

and on and on and on...
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And now, back to

KJMF -- KJohnMackFlanagan
 
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