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The Slaughtering Sounds of Radio KILL

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joebtsflk1

I was over on Mr. Eduardo's American Radio History site, looking at a White's Radio Log from 1955 when these calls popped up on 1460: KILL, Lubbock TX. Never figured these calls ever got used, but there they are. Not a typo, either as they showed up in the alphabetical listing of calls. http://www.americanradiohistory.com...chive-Whites/Whites Vol 32 No 4 1955 Fall.pdf

Looking at the call sign history on the FCC site shows no station used KILL since 1980.

What on earth were they thinking in Lubbock?!
 
That may have been a typo. There was an AM station in Lubbock at 1460 called KLLL. I think the call letters survive on the FM dial complete with the country format that was on 1460. As I understand it, KLLL AM signed off at sunset and the FM was simulcasting the AM in the early days
 
Typo was my first thought, too. Apparently the station info White's had at the time for KLLL was wrong, so it was KILL all throughout this particular issue of the White's Log.

The error stayed on the books for the fall '55 issue. The next issue held by American Radio History was from 1958, where White's was sold and combined with Radio-TV Experimenter. "KILL" would not die; the error survived Mr. White and the sale of the log to appear in the 1958 edition.
 
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