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WCMF Call Letters

As Jim has noted ....

'Combinations of "K" "Q" "G" "X" "B" "J" "A" "B" "Z" "C" "T" "H" "O" and "Y" seem to make good, crisp, clearly identifiable call signs.'

One of my all time favorite call signs... WYSL. Another was 'WJBK TV 2 Detroit'. (It's all said as kind of a single word!) Had all the letters listed in Jim's posting and was a hoot to say. Try 'WJBK TV2 Detroit' in 2 seconds... yes, 2 seconds!

Other favorites for me were 'WOHO, Toledo' and the classic 'WOWO, Fort Wayne'. I must he partial to 'O's! LOL

My all time fav call, of course, really did represent... WBUF, Buffalo. Hell... not only Buffalo's radio station but you see it on the luggage tags everytime you fly through the airport! LOL Too bad they have such crappy programming these days!

Kal
 
WBVM and Jim Pastrick

I too got my first commercial radio gig in 1977 working middays at WBVM while Jim Pastrick was managing the station. I used the air name of Jay Scott and later moved to WOUR after WBVM was acquired by Bumfeld Broadcasting and converted to a country format, using the name Jeff St James. Amazed to stumble upon this blog and see some ancient history of Utica radio. What a nice surprise!
 
Some interesting facts about 1080 AM - their transmitter was at 1515 Niagara Falls Blvd. near where the 290 is today. Kenmore was city of license. John Kluge sold WXRA and it's FM companion WILY 103.3 (ok, named for a certain cartoon coyote?) to Gordon McLendon, who changed the calls to WYSL. McLendon sold 1080 and moved the WYSL calls over the a new acquisition, 1400-AM. The transmitter was on the Larkin building, eventually moving to Fillmore/Kensington.

I found old WGR promotional materials and ads, the calls stood for Wherever you Go there's Radio.
 
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