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KWTF - Coming Soon To The Bay Area!

1069_KIFR said:
What The ...? Was KOMG taken or KLOL (I think this is a station in Dallas)or KBTW?
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Actually, KLOL is in Houston. Been there for years (the "lol" in the call letters are meant to be seen as "101").
 
Mr. Mike said:
KWTF? ???

Seems kinda funny that this new radio station would pick these particular call letters. :D
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Well San Francisco already has a station with the call letters KSOL. I recently saw a TV commercial for an automotive manufacturer (very effective commercial; I've forgotten the name...it may have also been a car dealer not a car maker) that claimed its "special deal" was for a few more days. "If you don't act now, youll be SOL."
 
Laurence Glavin said:
Mr. Mike said:
KWTF? ???

Seems kinda funny that this new radio station would pick these particular call letters. :D
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Well San Francisco already has a station with the call letters KSOL. I recently saw a TV commercial for an automotive manufacturer (very effective commercial; I've forgotten the name...it may have also been a car dealer not a car maker) that claimed its "special deal" was for a few more days. "If you don't act now, youll be SOL."
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I'm not sure when the term "sh*t-out-of-luck joined the popular vernacular - but the KSOL call letters (for "soul" music) have been around since the 1960s and probably pre-dated the term. Besides, "S-O-L" is an abbreviation and the "s" word is not actually being said. I think you can say "F-you" or "all F'ed up" on the air.

I've often wondered if the call letters K-C-U-F" have every been used.
 
Nope. CU-- isn't part of the Canadian callsign block. Canadian stations start with CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK. (The CBC uses CB- for its domestic stations as part of an informal agreement with Chile, which has the international rights to the CB- block.)
 
Scott Fybush said:
Nope. CU-- isn't part of the Canadian callsign block. Canadian stations start with CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK. (The CBC uses CB- for its domestic stations as part of an informal agreement with Chile, which has the international rights to the CB- block.)
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Aw, fiddlesticks.

There's always the same word with a K-call I suppose. Now I know the FCC wouldn't let that through. ;)

(Hopes to be proved wrong.)
 
Zach said:
Scott Fybush said:
Nope. CU-- isn't part of the Canadian callsign block. Canadian stations start with CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK. (The CBC uses CB- for its domestic stations as part of an informal agreement with Chile, which has the international rights to the CB- block.)
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Aw, fiddlesticks.

There's always the same word with a K-call I suppose. Now I know the FCC wouldn't let that through. ;)

(Hopes to be proved wrong.)
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I once heard a TV station was inadvertently assigned those calls before someone spotted the goof (they never went on the air with them.)

The University of North Texas had a pretty big dilemma with the potential call letters of it's station (they settled for KNTU.)

Does the FCC even assign call letters anymore? Seems like most stations pick from a pool of what's available on their side of the Mississippi.......
 
Though not profane per se, I always thought KNUS (Denver - rhymes with "****," I thought) was a bit distasteful when I first saw the call letters on an air check website. But apparently, it's meant to be pronounced "K-News. " It was even K-News in its Top 40 days.
 
Lkeller said:
Though not profane per se, I always thought KNUS (Denver - rhymes with "****," I thought) was a bit distasteful when I first saw the call letters on an air check website. But apparently, it's meant to be pronounced "K-News. " It was even K-News in its Top 40 days.
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That is funny. Didn't Sacramento used to have KRAK AM-FM in the 1970's? I heard that San Diego had KLSD and Who has the call letters KPUS and KPSY. and who has WEED at a call letters and KOPM like in Opium.
 
Stop The Presses!

How much for that WEED station?

(LOL!)
 
Zach said:
KRAP or KRAK? Nah, too obvious. :)
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As pointed out above, there was a popular country station in the Sacramento area called KRAK, and apparently the call letters still belong to CBS owned 910 AM in Victorville, but its imaged as "Stardust 910" playing standards.
 
Zach said:
Apparently KGHT in Aspen was known as K-C-U-F from 2005 to 2010, so it could be used again I suppose.

In Canada, would they license C-U-Next-Tuesday? ;)
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...Salem's All-Fascists-All-The-Time yakker in Phoenix has the calls KKNT...
 
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".
 
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