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LA Times Article On Call Letters

Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
A lot of radio fans have probably juxtaposed these 2 calls, but at the risk of being "picky", just wanted to point out that "LAist" is KPCC 89.3 (named after Pasadena City College) , and KPPC 106.7 was named after the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, where the underground music station was located in the basement.
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When I went to school in Pasadena (1976-1978) we took a field trip to KPCC, on the college campus. (Some of our teachers also taught part-time at PCC...) We got a tour of the studio, etc. (I don;t recall if I saw the actual transmitter there). Fun.

KPPC, I was told, was very low powered and could not be heard well outside of Pasadena. My experience with that station came in the early 1990s, when I was working in Pasadena. KPPC would start its broadcast day at 5 pm, just as I was leaving work. It made KGIL-1260 impossible to hear, if I wanted to listen to Bruce Williams on the way home, I would have to wait until I got to at least Highland Park on the 110 freeway (aka Arroyo Seco Parkway),,,
 
radiocph said:
When I went to school in Pasadena (1976-1978) we took a field trip to KPCC, on the college campus. (Some of our teachers also taught part-time at PCC...) We got a tour of the studio, etc. (I don;t recall if I saw the actual transmitter there). Fun.

KPPC, I was told, was very low powered and could not be heard well outside of Pasadena. My experience with that station came in the early 1990s, when I was working in Pasadena. KPPC would start its broadcast day at 5 pm, just as I was leaving work. It made KGIL-1260 impossible to hear, if I wanted to listen to Bruce Williams on the way home, I would have to wait until I got to at least Highland Park on the 110 freeway (aka Arroyo Seco Parkway),,,
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You’re talking about KPPC-AM. KPPC-FM became KROQ. It wasn’t the best signal in town, but it was adequate.
 
michael hagerty said:
They left out Gene Autry thinking KLIT spelled K-Lite, but never mind that now.

(yes, @DavidEduardo , I did that one just for you)
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I was near Fort Worth, TX, quite a few years ago. They have a station in the DFW area (Dallas I think) on 570 that at the time the call sign was KLIF (don't know if it still is).
I thought it would have meant K-Life (even though I don't think it was a religious station), but I remember hearing them on the air calling themselves "Five Seventy Cliff."

(And my imagination goes, what if the "K-Lite" station you mention was a religious station, with their call letters blazoned on some public sign somewhere ... Or, how about a religious station in a 9 KHz spacing region between 657 and 675, or, ... Hey I'm not currently aware of any stations in Mexico with 2 K's in the call, like "XEKK"... 😂)
 


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