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Your own "funny" (etc) call letter meanings

Les Stock said:
Is there still a KLIT in Fountain Valley, CA?
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No, not anymore.

It was KLIT from 01/15/1997 till it changed to KJLL-FM in 03/19/2007 (Jill-FM).

The current call letters KLST-FM have been there from 02/09/2012.
 
WBEE, 92.5 Rochester. After years of format & call letter changes became country. We've Been Everything Else -big joke around town until the the first book came out.
 
jfrancispastirchak said:
Recently mentioned this on another thread-- N B C  (Nothing But Crap)
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I heard it as NoBody Cares.  Parent company RCA....Really Crappy[ Apparatus.

I also once worked at WMIR....World's Most Ignored Radio.
 
When 1210 in Philly switched in the early 90s to sports talk, WGMP, it was assumed the calls were for "the Game in Philadelphia." Yet it was known in town as the gimp, and the ratings agreed.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
You wonder how they got those calls:

KDIC http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=kdic&x=11&y=2&sr=Y&s=C

WDIC http://radio-locator.com/info/WDIC-FM

WOMB http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=womb&x=14&y=7&sr=Y&s=C

KASS http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=kass&x=6&y=4&sr=Y&s=C

I heard there was a KCUF at one time, but not now. I guess they figured it out backwards.

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Actually, KCUF knew their call letters. And even had a slogan Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free.

Sounds like something you'd hear on one of those hard-right "patriot" talk stations than a CHR (as this station was.....)

But there IS KCIS, a religious station out of Seattle that with the addition of Mike Huckabee, seems to gravitating towards politics......

A techno format pirate in Miami used WOMB ("The Womb") before being shut down in the late '90s....
 
trusty said:
Radio-locator says the motto for this station is "Kick 107". ;D
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I believe that's correct. I know it called itself "Kick 107" a few years ago, anyway. However, when it switched from oldies to classic rock in, I believe, '95, it was "Kick Ass Rock N Roll!"
 
Wright County Guy said:
Currently they go by the moniker U-90, but more than once the phrase "Don't touch that dial! You got KUMM on it" was uttered without the call letters spelled out.
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I understand KOME in San Jose/San Francisco used that slogan as well.
 
In Ben Fong-Torres' book "The Hits Just Keep On Coming", Cousin Brucie opines that WABC stood for "We'll Always Be Cheap".

A little closer to home, the joke was that Huntington, Indiana's WHLT stood for "Why Huntington Likes Television".
 
anotherguy said:
WMQM, a dollar a holler station in Memphis: We're Making Quick Money (Thanks RDP for that one)
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When I was at WNQM about 10 years ago, and they were in the process of putting 'MQM (back) on the air back about that time, they were having so much difficulty getting 'MQM on the air, that I joked that the call letters stood for "we may quit Memphis"! ;D
 
Then there's the old joke... WFCK - The only thing missing is "u"!
 
Bongwater said:
ddsparxx said:
Wow, I wonder how the FCC allows such call letters? :D
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The University of North Texas were smart enough to name their station KNTU
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Having once worked there in the late 80s/early 90s, after the name change, aren't you glad they kept the letters the way they were (from NTSU) instead of the obvious one? ;D
 
I don't think anyone mentioned KAZM (like chasm) 780 from Sedona AZ. They had a saying with regard to their music "KAZM has-em."

I don't think it stood for Arizona's Music, but it would be a good line. :)
 
WIMP, Your Ten Watt Voice of the Tri-State Area

WHY (and it's sister station, WTF)
 
I thought of KUGH and WUGH (UGH! Radio) today.......
 
KBFF = K Big F-----g Fools
KGW = Keeps Getting Weirder
KPOJ = K Piece-O-Junk
KXL = K eXtra Loud (you'd understand if you'd ever tried DXing anything between 730 and 770 within KXL's coverage area...)
 
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