Your own "funny" (etc) call letter meanings

[Bongwater]

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...)

I know KPOJ was used in Portland before 620 got it. But WHO thought those call letters were ANYTHING good?

 

[FreddyE1977]

Years ago I was riding a bus past a building in Pittsburgh that had contained the
studios of WAMO. They had recently vacated. The letters had been removed from the
facade, but you could still see the stained outlines of the letters where they had once hung.

As we passed this building I announced to the entire bus, "FM 106, WAMO. We Are Moved Out!"
Cracked up the whole bus pretty good.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Years ago I was riding a bus past a building in Pittsburgh that had contained the
studios of WAMO. They had recently vacated. The letters had been removed from the
facade, but you could still see the stained outlines of the letters where they had once hung.

As we passed this building I announced to the entire bus, "FM 106, WAMO. We Are Moved Out!"
Cracked up the whole bus pretty good.

Now that's what I call thinking on your feet. Reminds me of a 1970s routine on healthcare by comedian David Steinberg. The punchline went something like this: "... M.D. ... me, doctor!" You should consider a career as a stand-up comic.

 

[vibe]

I didn't look up the location/station but I heard a station with the calls KMA while in eastern NE and western IA.

 

[cyberdad]

I didn't look up the location/station but I heard a station with the calls KMA while in eastern NE and western IA.

KMA has a big signal and quite a history....going back to the 1920s. Its most famous "alums" are Phil and Don, the Everly brothers. who performed with their parents on a live country music program in the early 1950s.

 

[Ultimajock]

...at WRJR/1500 Zion/North Chicago in 1985, we had so many air personalities quit because of the owner/GM/PD's utter incompetence that we started joking that the call sign stood for "We Replace Jocks Regularly" ;D ...

 

[Poledo]

Back in the day there was a small AM called WKRP, I believe it might have been in Cincinnati. Their mascot was a guy wearing a KaRP fish costume. There is a present day KARP in Minnesota that covers a whole bunch of lakes. Anyone know what type of fish are common there?

Also down here in Mobile Alabama we had an AM with the call letters WABB. Their mascot, a big old fuzzy WABBit.

I seems appropriate to me that the NPR in Philadelphia goes by WHYY, but it seems wrong that another Philly station, WHAT, is Spanish... Nah, "What?" is exactly what I would think if I stumbled across that Spanish station.

WUWF, from the University of West Florida goes by the name "Woof radio"... you know, as in a dog barking... even though WUWF's coverage area slightly overlaps with WOOF AM and FM.

I downloaded the WFMU, NYC app to my iPhone and it breaks everything down, WF (dog, woof) MU (cow, moo).

Radio Locator says KOME is silent and KAME doesn't exist, KUMM was already mentioned as running wild with their name. KLIT is assigned, but the station is a silent non-com. WHOR doesn't exists. It seems appropriate that Clear Channel owns WUSY.

WEED is a Spanish AM in North Carolina, too bad because Mexican weed sucks. KIND is assigned to some class A station in Kansas, can't figure out the format from Google.

It's still early for me, I shouldn't be typing a post in a public forum.

 

[Ultimajock]

...then there's the Salem yakker in Phoenix, KKNT, which, erm, speaks for itself ;D ...

 

[firepoint525]

...at WRJR/1500 Zion/North Chicago in 1985, we had so many air personalities quit because of the owner/GM/PD's utter incompetence that we started joking that the call sign stood for "We Replace Jocks Regularly" ;D ...

I used to work for WCMT in Martin, TN, and the GM there was (and still is, from what I understand!) such an ogre that I joked that their call letters stood for "We Cause Major Turnover"! With one exception, the entire air staff turned over during the year or so that I was there!

(The call letters actually stood for something like Weakley County, Martin, Tennessee.)

 

[firepoint525]

Also down here in Mobile Alabama we had an AM with the call letters WABB. Their mascot, a big old fuzzy WABBit.

In western Kentucky, there used to be a station with the call letters WIVR. Their nickname? You guessed it, "the wivver"! ;D

I seems appropriate to me that the NPR in Philadelphia goes by WHYY, but it seems wrong that another Philly station, WHAT, is Spanish... Nah, "What?" is exactly what I would think if I stumbled across that Spanish station.

Franklin, TN, has a small Spanish station that uses the call letters WHEW. (*whew!*) Prior to that, they were WIZO. I remember a gospel music dj (at another station) playing a song called "I'm a Wise Ol' Pilot" or something like that, to which a co-worker commented, "no, you are not a WIZO pilot!" ;D

 

[firepoint525]

One more from the Nashville area:

The old WMUU, which was known as "Moo 102," despite actually being at 102.9 on the dial. Yes, their mascot was a cow, similar to the Chick-Fil-A cow. (Interesting to note that after a flip, they were then known as WZPC, nicknamed "PC-103,")

 

[trusty]

One more from the Nashville area:

The old WMUU, which was known as "Moo 102," despite actually being at 102.9 on the dial. Yes, their mascot was a cow, similar to the Chick-Fil-A cow. (Interesting to note that after a flip, they were then known as WZPC, nicknamed "PC-103,")

When was WMUU in Nashville? I only remember it being in Greenville, SC.
(When you check WBUZ on Wikipedia, the story about "Moo 102" is a little different.)
???

 

[w9wi]

One more from the Nashville area:

The old WMUU, which was known as "Moo 102," despite actually being at 102.9 on the dial. Yes, their mascot was a cow, similar to the Chick-Fil-A cow. (Interesting to note that after a flip, they were then known as WZPC, nicknamed "PC-103,")

When was WMUU in Nashville? I only remember it being in Greenville, SC.
(When you check WBUZ on Wikipedia, the story about "Moo 102" is a little different.)
???

I was wondering about that too , was pretty sure WMUU has been in Greenville for decades.

The Nashville-area station was WMMU for about 8 months in 1996.

 

[firepoint525]

One more from the Nashville area:
The old WMUU, which was known as "Moo 102," despite actually being at 102.9 on the dial. Yes, their mascot was a cow, similar to the Chick-Fil-A cow. (Interesting to note that after a flip, they were then known as WZPC, nicknamed "PC-103,")

When was WMUU in Nashville? I only remember it being in Greenville, SC.
(When you check WBUZ on Wikipedia, the story about "Moo 102" is a little different.)

I was wondering about that too , was pretty sure WMUU has been in Greenville for decades.
The Nashville-area station was WMMU for about 8 months in 1996.

Maybe that was it. What I thought was amusing was the way that they emphasized "102" as their frequency, and then later emphasized "103" without changing frequencies! They also owned (and still own) 102.5 in the same market, so that must have been confusing to listeners for a while there. That time frame (1996) would be correct, but I didn't realize that it was so short of a time frame with those calls. The former cow-mascot from "Moo 102" later became a coworker of mine, and he was a lazy bum!

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

One more from the Nashville area:
The old WMUU, which was known as "Moo 102," despite actually being at 102.9 on the dial. Yes, their mascot was a cow, similar to the Chick-Fil-A cow. (Interesting to note that after a flip, they were then known as WZPC, nicknamed "PC-103,")

When was WMUU in Nashville? I only remember it being in Greenville, SC.
(When you check WBUZ on Wikipedia, the story about "Moo 102" is a little different.)

I was wondering about that too , was pretty sure WMUU has been in Greenville for decades.
The Nashville-area station was WMMU for about 8 months in 1996.

Maybe that was it. What I thought was amusing was the way that they emphasized "102" as their frequency, and then later emphasized "103" without changing frequencies! They also owned (and still own) 102.5 in the same market, so that must have been confusing to listeners for a while there. That time frame (1996) would be correct, but I didn't realize that it was so short of a time frame with those calls. The former cow-mascot from "Moo 102" later became a coworker of mine, and he was a lazy bum!

He was a cow ? ???

 

[firepoint525]

Good one! He dressed up in the cow-mascot suit (similar to the ones that you sometimes still see at Chick-Fil-A). However, I got the feeling that he was trying to impress me by bragging, maybe even lying to me. :

 

[Bongwater]

Good one! He dressed up in the cow-mascot suit (similar to the ones that you sometimes still see at Chick-Fil-A). However, I got the feeling that he was trying to impress me by bragging, maybe even lying to me. :

Would hate to think that's the only way he can make friends.......

 

[trusty]

Good one! He dressed up in the cow-mascot suit (similar to the ones that you sometimes still see at Chick-Fil-A). However, I got the feeling that he was trying to impress me by bragging, maybe even lying to me. :

Would hate to think that's the only way he can make friends.......

He didn't trust anybody because his friends milked him for all he had.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Good one! He dressed up in the cow-mascot suit (similar to the ones that you sometimes still see at Chick-Fil-A). However, I got the feeling that he was trying to impress me by bragging, maybe even lying to me. :

Would hate to think that's the only way he can make friends.......

He didn't trust anybody because his friends milked him for all he had.

Udder nonsense.

 

[Kent]

Contrary to what some believe, there is no KOCK.

LOL! For the University of North Texas, that would definitely be true if they'd changed calls along with the school name!

Of course, until recently, there was a KOCK out of Walsenburg, CO. It was a country station known as "Rooster 101.3." It changed formats a little over 6 months ago, and those classic call letters were jettisoned for KFEZ. Ranks right up there with KLIT, which, ironically, is now a CP for a religious operator!