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KNTU

jeffdfw said:
Also notice they have a listen live button you can click for KNTU. 8)
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Were ya been Jeff? I've known this for years! ;)

I'm surprised NTU doesn't stay on 24/7. They could do auto from midnight to whatever.

R
 
I just wish they would play Jazz on Saturday and Sunday mornings when I have time to listen.
 
Actually, KNTU is now 24/7 and yes over nights are automated...And ya no jazz Saturday mornings, but I do believe there is jazz on Sunday mornings.
 
Re: KNTU 88.1

TheRover said:
I have a Technical Question about KNTU-FM 88.1.

Since North Texas (State) University has officially changed it's name to the:

University of North Texas

Should there be a request made to change the station's call Letters to align with the new name of the University ? ? ?
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If I had a dime for every time I heard *THAT* joke!
 
Actually in1977 Teriney Brown a news anchor on KNTU was finishing the news after being distracted by the radio personnel in the main studio and actually did invert the call letters of the station. Respirators were needed from everyone laughing so hard. Its almost as bad as the supposed original name of the other campus in Denton, Texas Women's Academy of Technology.
 
Re: KNTU 88.1

TheRover said:
I have a Technical Question about KNTU-FM 88.1.

Since North Texas (State) University has officially changed it's name to the:

University of North Texas

Should there be a request made to change the station's call Letters to align with the new name of the University ? ? ?
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It has been the UNT since 1988. If they were going to apply for new calls for KNTU, I'd suspect they'd have done that way back then. KNTU does not need to transpose their calls to align with the University of North Texas name, for a very obvious reason. Even if they did apply for the UNT calls, do you think the FCC would grant it? I don't. And like Radi0chik says... :)
 
fifthestate55 said:
Actually in1977 Teriney Brown a news anchor on KNTU was finishing the news after being distracted by the radio personnel in the main studio and actually did invert the call letters of the station. Respirators were needed from everyone laughing so hard. Its almost as bad as the supposed original name of the other campus in Denton, Texas Women's Academy of Technology.
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Anybody got aircheck of this? I'd love to hear it! ;D
 
Re: KNTU 88.1

Trainguy1970 said:
TheRover said:
I have a Technical Question about KNTU-FM 88.1.

Since North Texas (State) University has officially changed it's name to the:

University of North Texas

Should there be a request made to change the station's call Letters to align with the new name of the University ? ? ?
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It has been the UNT since 1988. If they were going to apply for new calls for KNTU, I'd suspect they'd have done that way back then. KNTU does not need to transpose their calls to align with the University of North Texas name, for a very obvious reason. Even if they did apply for the UNT calls, do you think the FCC would grant it? I don't. And like Radi0chik says... :)
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I knew it had been awhile, but time files when having fun....

How about a Rap station K-RAP ? ?

I wonder if the FCC has ever cataloged a list of station ID's that they will not accept, or, a list of ID's that have actually been submitted and then rejected?? That would interesting to look at..
 
Well lookie what I stumbled over....

Meanwhile, for a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuka, Maui the FCC recently approved the call letters KUNT. This is not a joke! This is actually true! (I sure hope they don't plan on being an affiliate for the Lifetime Network or Oxygen.) Yes, those call letters were deemed acceptable by the federal decency police.

The same station group applied for and received the call letters KWTF for a station in Arizona. Anyone who has ever typed an email knows what WTF means.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-levine/dropping-the-fcc-bomb_b_58377.html

OUCH! :eek:
 
yeah and if I recall correctly, they've since been pulled and issued other callsigns.
 
Yep... And the article states the fella who applied for the UNT and WTF calls, supposedly had no idea those calls can be deemed objectionable.
 
Trainguy1970 said:
Yep... And the article states the fella who applied for the UNT and WTF calls, supposedly had no idea those calls can be deemed objectionable.
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Yeah, because I'm sure he's been hiding in a cave in a remote area of the globe for the last 20 years.
 
Re: KNTU 88.1

VERITAS DE VOCE said:
radi0chik said:
If I had a dime for every time I heard *THAT* joke!
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Oh, you mean that's not original? ;D
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Depends on how ya define original... Like my signature below ;)
 
As a Student at UNT in Spring of 1988 I actually signed a petition to change the calls. Someone knocked on my dorm room door and my roommate and I both signed it. The one that I signed must have had over a hundred signatures on it. It probably could have had several thousand on it and they still wouldn't even have applied to have it changed.

At least I can tell you that it was a popular notion back then. Seemed like a good idea to me.
 
longshotsa said:
As a Student at UNT in Spring of 1988 I actually signed a petition to change the calls. Someone knocked on my dorm room door and my roommate and I both signed it. The one that I signed must have had over a hundred signatures on it. It probably could have had several thousand on it and they still wouldn't even have applied to have it changed.

At least I can tell you that it was a popular notion back then. Seemed like a good idea to me.
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It will always be a Good Idea.

Some things... are Always... a Good Idea !! ;D
 
longshotsa said:
As a Student at UNT in Spring of 1988 I actually signed a petition to change the calls. Someone knocked on my dorm room door and my roommate and I both signed it. The one that I signed must have had over a hundred signatures on it. It probably could have had several thousand on it and they still wouldn't even have applied to have it changed.

At least I can tell you that it was a popular notion back then. Seemed like a good idea to me.
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To KUNT?

Please tell us you’re joking

If there really was such a petition to change it to KUNT, who was behind it? And I find it hard to believe such a petition got over 100 signatures. If that’s really true, that leads me to believe the university had a bunch of uninformed kiddos with regard to phonetics.
 
According to R.Campbell station manager Of KNTU and other faculty, that Petition is considered an "urban legend".
 
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