TV CALLS THAT REPRESENT A CITY, PLACE OR GEOGRAPHIC AREA

[gregg75]

Examples:
WATL 36 MYNT Atlanta
WAGA 5 FOX Atlanta
WSAV 3 NBC Savannah
WGTV 8 PBS Atlanta

 

[Mr Tony]

off the top of my head locally

KSTP ABC St Paul, MN
KDLH CBS Duluth, MN
KSAX ABC Alexandria, MN (satellite station of KSTP)
KRWF ABC Redwood Falls, MN (satellite station of KSTP)
WDSE PBS Duluth/Superior
KMSP FOX Minneapolis/St Paul
WEAU NBC Eau Claire, WI
WLAX FOX LaCrosse, WI

When it was around
KDUL UPN Duluth, MN

 

[DToTheJ]

WNYW (the former WNEW) in New York... and most every other station in the state of New York with "NY" in their callsign...

 

[landtuna]

KTAR (now KPNX TV) - Phoenix/Mesa, AZ
KOPO (now KOLD) - Tucson, AZ ("Old Pueblo")
KPHO - Phoenix, AZ
KSAZ - Phoenix, AZ (SAZ=Southern Arizona?)
KNAZ - Flagstaff, AZ (NAZ=Northern Arizona?)
KUAT - Tucson, AZ (UofA PBS)

 

[oldiesfan6479]

KTAR (now KPNX TV) - Phoenix/Mesa, AZ Mesa/Phoenix, AZ

Fixed.


In the early '80s, when Gulf United bought KOOL-TV Phoenix (now KSAZ-TV), they changed
the calls to KTSP-TV. Seems Gulf already had a WTSP-TV in Tampa/St. Pete, and they
tried to con the Phoenix populace into thinking it meant Tempe/Scottsdale/Phoenix.
Yeah, right.

 

[KeithE4]

KTAR (now KPNX TV) - Phoenix/Mesa, AZ

KTAR originally stood for "Keep Taking (the) Arizona Republic" or just "The Arizona Republic." KPNX is more a "local name" callsign (PhoeNiX).

KSAZ - Phoenix, AZ (SAZ=Southern Arizona?)

That originally stood for "Spirit of AriZona" - changed from KTSP-TV a couple of months before New World (Fox) bought the station in 1994. KSAZ radio in Tucson (no relation) could stand for Southern AriZona, though.

KUAT - Tucson, AZ (UofA PBS)

University of Arizona Television

There's also:
KPAZ-TV Phoenix - Phoenix AriZona
WILL-TV Champaign/Urbana - ILLinois (University of Illinois-owned)
KCAL Los Angeles - CALifornia

 

[crainbebo]

KSTW-Seattle Tacoma Washington/Ch. 11 The CW
KSPS-Spokane Public Schools/Ch 7 PBS

-crainbebo

 

[liradioisbad]

WTNH - New Haven, CT
WPRI - Providence, RI
WDCA - DC
WBAL - Baltimore, MD

And appropriately, DC also has a WUSA.

 

[RyanHoward]

Some ones around my area that I know of:

WPHL/17(MyTV)-PHiLadelphia
WPGH/53(Fox)-PittsburGH
WNJT/52(PBS)-New Jersey Trenton
WTAJ/10(CBS)-Television Altoona-Johnstown
WHP/21(CBS)-Harrisburg Pennsylvania
WNYC/31(now Ion-owned WPXN-TV)-New York City
WSWB/38(CW)-Scranton-Wilkes-Barre
WNJU/47(Telemundo, Linden-Newark)-New Jersey UHF
WLVT/39(PBS, Allentown)-Lehigh Valley Television
WBAL/11(NBC)-BALtimore
WMAR/2(ABC, Baltimore)-MARyland
WBOC/16(CBS, Salisbury)-Between Ocean and Chesapeake
WNEP/16(ABC, Scranton)-NorthEast Pennsylvania

 

[KML0224]

In the Portland/Poland Spring, ME market, they have WMTW-TV (ABC) channel 8 of Poland Spring. The station's original transmitter site was, of course, Mount Washington, NH.

Informally, the Hartford/New Haven, CT market has WCCT-TV (CW) channel 20 of Waterbury. I assume WCCT-TV is supposed to mean CW Connecticut.

 

[FreddyE1977]

WPXI - We're Pittsburgh's Eleven (XI)
WTOV - Television for the Ohio Valley
WPGH - "PGH" is a locally used abbreviation for Pittsburgh
WPCB - Pittsburgh Christian Broadcasting

 

[NeilRattigan]

WCHS-TV CHarleSton, WV

 

[Bob1370]

How about;

WROC-TV (CBS, Ch. 8) Rochester, NY
WSYR-TV (ABC, Ch. 9) Syracuse, NY
KTLA (Ch. 5) Los Angeles

And as a blast from the past;

WFIL-TV (ABC, Ch. 6, now WPVI), Philadelphia

 

[easttxtv]

Dallas-Fort Worth:
KDTN/2 (DenToN, city of license)
KDFW/4
KXAS/5 (TeXAS)
KTVT/11 (TeleVision for Texas, supposedly)
KTXA/21 (TeXas, Arlington -- first city location for the station)
KDFI/27 (Dallas Fort Worth's Independent, supposedly)
KDAF/33 (Dallas And Fort Worth)
KVFW-LP/38 (TeleVision Fort Worth)
KXTX/39 (TeXas)
KTXD/47 (TeXas, Dallas)
KFWD/52 (Fort Worth, Dallas)
KAZD/55 (AZteca Dallas) ---previous calls: KLDT (Lake Dallas, Texas <or> Lake Dallas Television)
KDTX/58 (Dallas TeXas)
KPXD/68 (PaX Dallas, reflecting affiliation/original network name)

Amarillo:
KACV/2 (Amarillo College Voice, reflecting ownership/station location)
KAMR/4 (AMaRillo)

Tyler/Longview:
KYTX/19 (TYler TeXas <or> EYe of East TeXas)
KETK/56 (East Texas)

 

[dave73]

WMLW-LD - MiLWaukee, WI
WBND-LD - South BeND, IN
WSBT-TV - South Bend, IN (I'm sure that's not what it means, but the SB portion could stand for South Bend)
WNDY - Marion, IN (nickname, INDY, for Indianapolis, IN
WTHI - Terre Haute, IN
WFWA - Fort Wayne, IN

 

[Toledo Eleven]

WTOL (Toledo / CBS)
WNWO (Northwest Ohio / ABC)
WBGU (Bowling Green University / PBS)

 

[KeithE4]

WSBT-TV - South Bend, IN (I'm sure that's not what it means, but the SB portion could stand for South Bend)

It stands for South Bend Tribune. South Bend-based Schurz Communications is the parent company of both. Schurz was one of the few companies to receive a construction permit for Channel 1 (as WSBE).

 

[firepoint525]

WMC-TV (and radio stations, too, for that matter), named for the Memphis Commercial, (forerunner of the Commercial Appeal, Memphis' newspaper), original owner of the WMC stations, so the M in WMC is an indirect reference to Memphis.

 

[cwf1701]

In the Detroit aera (* former TV call letters)

WDIV (Detroit 4)
WKBD (Kaiser Broadcasting Detroit)
WDWB (Detroit WB)*
WMYD (My TV Detroit)
WPXD (Pax Detroit)
CKLW (London and Windsor Ontario)*
CBET (Canadian Broadcast Essex (Essex County Ontario) Television)

 

[Nate Wesley]

Barely qualifies for what the OP wants, but here goes: When it was first put on the air, WPMI-TV (Mobile, AL/Pensacola, FL) stood for 'Pensacola-Mobile Independent'.

It's now with NBC, after another station took its previous Fox affiliation away.