• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Same-market stations with similarly sounding call letters (Radio or TV)

A few more local ones, Knoxville TN area.
WNOX 93.1, WNML AM’FM 99.1, WNRX 99.3 (at one time co-managed or co-owned, now all separate)
WKVL 850, WKXV 900
WNPZ (silent on 1580), WNFZ 94.3
WOGU, WOZO, WOZW all LPFM, sharing time on 103.9
WJBE (Urban) WJBZ (SOUTHERN Gospel). WJBE hearkens back to the station James Brown used to own here.
At one time there was WORI and WOKI.
 
In the Memphis area:

WREC AM 600 (News Talk) and WREG TV 3 (CBS) - Formerly co-owned, but the AM is now owned by iHeart and the TV is owned by Tribune.
WMC AM 790 (Sports Talk) and FM 99.7 (Hot AC) and TV 5 (NBC) - Formerly co-owned, but the radio stations are now owned by Entecom and the TV is owned by Raycom.
WHBQ AM 560 (Sports Talk) and FM 107.5 (CHR) and TV 13 (Fox) - Formerly co-owned, the radio stations are now owned by Dr. George Flinn and the TV station is owned by Cox.
WMPS AM 1210 (AAA?) and WMFS FM 92.9 and AM 680 (Simulcasting ESPN Radio). 680 originally had the WMPS call letters. WMPS is owned by Dr. George Flinn and WMFS AM and FM are owned by Entercom.
 
Last edited:
Another from Memphis I meant to add earlier:

WAVN AM 1240 (Southern Gospel) and WATN TV 24 (ABC) - The AM station is owned by Dr. George Flinn and the TV station is owned by Nexstar.
 
anotherguy said:
In the Memphis area:
WREC AM 600 (News Talk) and WREG TV 3 (CBS) - Formerly co-owned, but the AM is now owned by iHeart and the TV is owned by Tribune.
Click to expand...
In many cases (WREC/WREG being one of them), the stations with similar call letters used to have the SAME calls when jointly owned. WREG used to be WREC.

We have heard from the other two grand divisions of the volunteer state, so let's hear from the midstate now: WSMV-TV used to be jointly owned with WSM radio, AM and FM. The TV station (which added the "V" to their calls) is now owned by Meredith, the AM by Gaylord, and the FM by Cumulus (I think). When jointly owned, all three were up there on Knob Hill in west Nashville. Now only the TV station is still up there. WSM-AM is now out there at the Opryland Hotel complex, and I believe that you can still walk by there, and watch their staffers at work.
 
Not in the same market, but with considerable signal overlap: WTEL Philadelphia (the old WIP on 610, now owned by Beasley and running ESPN and brokered programming) and WDEL Wilmington DE (Delmarva Broadcasting's long-running news/talker on 1150).
 
For a while, Boston had WCLB and WCRB on FM, but classical WCRB complained, saying the calls would cause confusion among diary households, and got the country station to change its call to WKLB. Neither station complained about WCVB, though. Of course, WCVB was (and still is) a TV station.
 
In Houston:
KTEK, KTRK & KTRH.
KJOZ & KJOJ.
KSBJ, KXBJ, KYBJ, KZBJ, KUBJ.
KUHA, KUHF, & KUHT.
KQBT, KQBU-FM, KQUE-FM, KQUE.
KREH, KNTH, KEYH & KETH.
KYST & KVST.
KLOL, KGOL, & KLVL.
 
In Los Angeles
KNXT and KNX note KNXT is now KCBS2

In San Francisco its KQEH, KQEC, and KQED all owned by KQED Public Media inc San Francisco.

KIOI and KIQI San Francisco.
 
In Sacramento area there's KFBK (Iheart owned station)
KRBK Sacramento (Note this station is now known as KMAX 31 a CBS owned station with CW affiliation)

And Yes the former KRAK radio in Sacramento (Now Known as KTHK Sacramento and a CBS Radio station)
 
In the bluegrass state, at one time they had a TV station and radio station (although in different parts of the state) both having the call letters WKZT, the TV station in Elizabethtown, the radio station in Fulton. Probably not much likelihood for confusion, unless the TV station ever happened to syndicate any of their programming statewide. They are a PBS station, so that might have been a possibility. I know that PBS stations here in Tennessee do that.

WKZT radio reverted back to their original calls (WFUL) around 2004, and have since left the air for good. The radio station had been given the WKZT calls in honor (or more precisely, in memory) of Kenneth Z. Turner, a former owner, back in 1988. I had worked there briefly in 1991.
 
KNBC and KNBR San Francisco (Now the KNBR Calls are for Cumulus Sports Talk)

KPO and KGO when these stations were NBC Radio O&O's interestingly after 70 years of different owners between KPO and KGO reunited in 2011 as KGO and KNBR under Cumulus.

KNBH and KNBC Los Angeles both were on Channel 4 by NBC.
 
In Puget Sound

KPLU Tacoma/KPLZ Seattle
KISW Seattle/KLSW Covington
KVI Seattle/KVTI Tacoma/KVIX Port Angeles

Plus we have a "Rock 98.9 Seattle" (KVRQ) going against "The Rock of Seattle 99.9" (KISW)
 
Another Houston example: KROI and KROY.

Here are some in Michigan:
WLDN, WLMN, and WLJN in northwest Michigan (WLDN and WLMN are less than 20 miles apart and WLMN is one spot on the dial down from WLJN)
Also, WLDN and WLDR in the same area
WILX and WILS in Lansing
WXYZ and WXYT in Detroit
WMAX, WMPX, and WMRX in the Tri-Cities
WFNT and WFLT in Flint
WFGR, WVGR, and WYGR in Grand Rapids
WGVU and WRVU in Grand Rapids
WFUR and WFGR in Grand Rapids
WYBR, WWBR, and WBRN in Big Rapids
WSOO and WSUE in Sault Ste. Marie
 
So have any of these "conflicts" -- at least the ones that happened in diary markets -- ever resulted in one or the other changing its call, the way the WCLB/WCRB situation played out in Boston? Or were all these stations' owners satisfied that there'd be no confusion by diary keepers?
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom