KWTF - Coming Soon To The Bay Area!

[LKellerIII]

I believe there was, or is, a Wonderful WINO in Connecticut. Not profane but funny

In an episode of The Simpsons Marge goes to a retreat by herself and relaxes in a hot tub as a very-relaxing radio station plays: "You're listening to KOMA".

There is a KOMA - meant to sound like Oklahoma City, where it is located. It was a famous AM Top 40 station back in the day, and is now an FM Greatest Hits station.

I remember hearing a KPMS while traveling some years ago.

 

[DaveBayArea]

KRAP or KRAK? Nah, too obvious.

I heard once that KRAP was considered for the original KOME (98.5 in San Jose) when they switched to rock. Apparently the talk was something like "I want my new station to be K-RAP - because that's where it's at. It's all about the rap, man". This was when the word "rap" had a somewhat different meaning. They decided on KOME when the 2nd connotation for those call letters became obvious.

Dave B.

 

[LKellerIII]

KRAP or KRAK? Nah, too obvious.

I heard once that KRAP was considered for the original KOME (98.5 in San Jose) when they switched to rock. Apparently the talk was something like "I want my new station to be K-RAP - because that's where it's at. It's all about the rap, man". This was when the word "rap" had a somewhat different meaning. They decided on KOME when the 2nd connotation for those call letters became obvious.

Dave B.

I'm not sure I'm buying that. Back in the day, us hippies said "let's rap," but it was synonymous with "let's talk" - we didn't put it to music. So unless KOME was considering a hippie-talk format, that doesn't make a lot of sense. I seem to recall an album rock station in LA with a Sunday night talk show called "Let's Rap" - or something similar, but it was one of those once-a-week public service programs.

There was a little rap music (modern use of the word) that got air-play on album rock stations in the late 60s and early 70s. I remember "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and other 'songs' by Gil Scott Heron. But it wasn't called "rap" then, and there wouldn't have been enough material to sustain a radio format.

 

[recto101]

KOFY-TV 20 in San Francisco in the 1960's was KEMO and KGUN in AZ

 

[DavidKaye]

I believe there was, or is, a Wonderful WINO in Connecticut. Not profane but funny

Are people around here forgetting, "Don't touch that dial! It has KOME on it!" It suited Mel Karmazin just fine and dandy until he began to become a more powerful broadcaster and got lots of investment money for Infinity, then he ordered the station staff never to pronounce the callsign as a word any longer. And an era ended...

 

[recto101]

Didnt 95.3 FM Vacaville used to have KOCK in the 1970's before it became KUIC in the 1980's

 

[Geek-O-Rama]

KRAP or KRAK? Nah, too obvious.

KRAK was a big Country station in Sacramento at one time.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

For a period of time, an AM station in a Boston suburb had the call letters WSTD.

 

[recto101]

Wait theres WCIA in Springfield Illinois. but who has KCIA, and KFBI and WFBI.

 

[Ultimajock]

...the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus has WRST, which allegedly stands for "Radio Station of the Titans" (the nickname of the university's sports teams). As things turned out, commercial broadcasters in the area call the station "WoRST Radio"...

 

[tomservo]

Wait theres WCIA in Springfield Illinois. but who has KCIA, and KFBI and WFBI.

I know the ion TV channel in Memphis was formerly WFBI but it's now WPXX I think.

Of course there's the famous KGB-FM in Sandy Eggo.

There's no KCIA that I know of.

 

[recto101]

Vallejo 1190 AM used to be KNBA you think Basketball could be found on 1190 AM but it really means covers North Bay Area. Who had the Call Letters WNBA before it became Womens Basketball or KNHL, KNFL, KMLB, WNFL, WMLB anf WNHL.