So, that would indicate that there are 17,576 (26x26x26) possibilities each for calls beginning with K and W. From KAAA to KZZZ, and WAAA to WZZZ, of course minus the inappropriates, like KSEX and WSHT.
And this is after three letter calls, like WLS
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So, that would indicate that there are 17,576 (26x26x26) possibilities each for calls beginning with K and W. From KAAA to KZZZ, and WAAA to WZZZ, of course minus the inappropriates, like KSEX and WSHT.
And this is after three letter calls, like WLS
Actually, there is a WSEX and it is in Santa Isabel, PR. The word means the same in Spanish as in English.
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David, thank you for posting the link to Bob Nelson's Oldradio.com. I can see that I'll be spending many hours on that site. One of Nelson's references is Tom Kneitel's Radio Station Treasury: 1900-1946. I have a copy of that and I keep wishing that Kneitel would put out an updated version. Another excellent book is Edward R. Brouder Jr.'s Granite & Ether: A Chronicle Of New Hampshire Broadcasting, published in 1993 by the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasting. The highly detailed book is filled with photos, newspaper articles and coverage maps and is well worth tracking down. Yeah, you could argue that no New Hampshire stations or DJs ever became nationally known, but it's still a really good book if you're interested in radio history.
Mr. Kneitel passed a few years back. The book is in the Bookshelf section of www.americanradiohistory.com .
I come up with 36,504 possible three and four letter call combinations. It would actually be 26x26x27, as the "missing" fourth letter in a three letter call is the 27th option for the "fourth" spot. You also have to double the total since you are dealing with both K and W possibilities.
So you would have 1,352 three letter combinations and 35,152 four letter combinations to get the 36,504 total.
That would be a ton of radio stations for sure. Actually, how many of that total have actually been implemented and are in use today?
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Probably more than you'd guess, given that LPTVs and LPFMs also draw from that pool of four-letter calls.
Also, there are some which are unavailable for broadcast stations due to their being assigned to naval vessels.
Michael has responded to me numerous times, both about radio, and about cars. I've never met him, but he impresses me as a very kind and courteous person.
Kneitel was a champion of all things radio: CB, ham, scanners, broadcast, pirates, you name it. The magazine he helped start in the early '80s, Popular Communications, went online-only (and only as a supplement to CQ, the ham magazine) just last year. With the demise of Monitoring Times, due to founder/editor Bob Grove's retirement, also in the past year or so, there are zero print publications devoted to the radio hobby other than CQ, the ham mag which I believe is the lone print survivor of what used to be a fairly populous niche.
Interesting. Does the FCC have different standards for Puerto Rico radio than it does for radio in the 50 states, other than the English-language ID rule? Is this an exemption carved out for PR, the way cockfighting is still legal there while outlawed in all 50 states?
There are no exceptions to FCC rules (part 73) for PR other than a PR and USVI specific definition of Class A and Class B powers and heights. As far as compliance, standards are the same although anyone who has managed a station in Puerto Rico would say that there is an element of "benign neglect" caused by FCC staff not wanting to wade through the language and cultural barriers that make it much more difficult to evaluate concepts like "community standards".
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I present this heartwarming tale for your amazement and amusement. Yesterday my wife and I were in the car and I turned the radio on. We heard Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name. My wife said, "I don't want to hear rock. Put it on something else." I told her, "This is KRTH. This is what they sound like now." There ya go!
That song is over 30 years old, and it's the quintessential LA hair band song from the 80s. That may have been the first song Scott Shannon played on Pirate Radio. They should also play Poison and Motley Crue, but that might go too far.
This is the equivalent of an oldies station in the 80s playing Bill Haley & The Comets. This is how you know you're old.
This is the equivalent of an oldies station in the 80s playing Bill Haley & The Comets. This is how you know you're old.
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I think it is pretty well known that Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" was the first song played by Pirate Radio, but you are correct in that they did play Bon Jovi to no end.
By the way, I would like an oldies station that plays Bill Haley and the Comets even today, and I am not that old.
Yes, but Scott Shannon was not the first jock on Pirate Radio. Although Scott voiced the opening montage, Shadoe Steele was the jock that kicked off Pirate with Welcome To The Jungle.
I believe Big A is right that Scott began his first show with Bon Jovi.
Bill Haley & HIS Comets, you must be too young!
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Thomps2525
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I assume most of you have seen LARadio.com today. That classic "aircheck" of The Real Don Steele at KMPC is now online. Neil Ross, who did the amazing impersonation of Steele, has posted it at http://voicebank.net/app/showVmail.do?bundleId=640512&key=fjSX0bdMKU
Thank you, Neil! Thank you for making the tape and thank you for putting it online.
Thank you, Neil! Thank you for making the tape and thank you for putting it online.
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K.M. Richards
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Backstory: After the existence of that tape was brought up, I asked Neil for a copy so Michael and I could hear it. (Neil and I are both members of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.) Michael asked me to suggest to Neil that it be more widely shared and Neil agreed.
For anyone who ever heard RDS, the parody is side-splittingly funny.
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Thank you, K.M.---and thank you, Neil. Of all the thousands of airchecks that are now online, that Steele parody is the second-most entertaining one. My favorite is Gary Owens' "Season's Greetings from Preparation H" spot, which even made it onto a Dick Clark Bloopers album. Garish has said that he has gotten more requests to replay the Preparation H spot than for anything else he ever did. Gosharooties!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0fxtJXJzTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0fxtJXJzTk
I asked Joe last week and he said that he never used "Joey Kidd" at Z-100. He was always Joe Rosati in the multiple times he worked there (you missed KDWB as one of the stations he worked at; he went from Z-100 to KDWB and then back to Z-100). He only used "Joey Kidd" doing weekends at WFLY because they insisted on it.
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