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WSHE back to South Florida, can we Zeta back here?

vadar said:
Tragic that great calls just end up in podunk USA on AM stations.... :(
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The call letters in question are parked on "podunk USA" AM stations to prevent another licensee from obtaining them.
 
vadar said:
Tragic that great calls just end up in podunk USA on AM stations.
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Call letters are the proverbial vestigial mammary outlets on a bull.
Several stations in my area, Miami, have changed call signs each several times and nobody even noticed. Y-100 is still Y-100, Kiss is still Kiss, and Love-94 was always Love-94. They are as meaningful to the public today as FM channel numbers.

BTW...is anyone aware that the original prewar FM band plan actually used a sensible channel numbering plan? Spaced at 100 KHz per channel, it went from 42.1 (ch21) through 49.9 ch. 99).
 
I remember when call letters meant something. WLOF, WBJW, WCAT, WDIZ, shall I go on?
 
I always liked WSRF-FM. Back when 103.5 was still playing automated A/C they had jingles and it sounded like they were singing W-S-A-G instead of W-S-H-E.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
I always liked WSRF-FM. Back when 103.5 was still playing automated A/C they had jingles and it sounded like they were singing W-S-A-G instead of W-S-H-E.
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Your story reminds me of an AM station I grew up listening to in the early 70s and later programmed in the late 70s - WTMC. The jingles had various sounds including W-G-M-C and W-T-M-G, rarely sounding like it was supposed to with W-T-M-C. We now have an FM station in the market that has the call letters W-T-M-G.

Interestingly I never knew that WSHE was once assigned the call letters WSRF-FM although I knew about WSRF-AM 1580.
 
Imagine my confusion when, as a young lad, I heard a station from Pittsburgh with what sounded like the same call letters as one in Tampa on the same frequency. Who will respond to this one first?
 
ai4i said:
cd637299 said:
WTAE/WDAE
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And may you be the first to logue Radio Cigar Nacional from Cuba!
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Unless the call letters have changed recently, WTAE 1250 Pittsburg is now WEAE. As for Cuban cigars, if you know where one can obtain them without having to go to Cuba, then "you da man!!!"
 
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