Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hoptoad.UUCP!pozar From: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Re: Radio call letters Message-ID: <8703231640.AA04844@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 11:40:26 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.8703231640.AA04844 Posted: Mon Mar 23 11:40:26 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:30:08 EST References: <8703230020.AA04366@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: hoptoad.UUCP!pozar@cgl.ucsf.edu (Tim Pozar) Distribution: world Organization: Syncstream (San Francisco) Lines: 33 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu In article <8703230020.AA04366@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KJBSF@SLACVM writes: >Date: 22 March 1987, 13:12:21 PST >From: Kevin J. Burnett x3330 >To: >Subject: Radio call letters > >I have noticed that along with the Kxxx and Wxxx call letters used for radio >stations in the US, there are ones used for other countries as well (such as >HCJB radio in Quito, Ecuador). Where would I be able to find out how the >lettering plan works? > >Thanks. Funny you should mention it. The 'W' and 'K' that starts all United States radio and television station's call are seperated by the Mississippi river. East of the river all calls begin with the letter 'W', to the west, 'K' begin the calls. Of course there are exceptions... The FCC is looking into deregulating this and any one can have a 'W' or 'K' to start their calls. Also stations that have no connection with an exisiting station that has a paticular call, can share it. KGO-TV in San Francisco can give their permission to let an AM or a FM station use the KGO call. You might see a KGO-FM in LA. (Side Note: KGO-FM is now KLOK-FM, and KGO-AM is owned by ABC in SF.) -- Tim Pozar UUCP pozar@hoptoad.UUCP Fido 125/406 USNail KLOK-FM 77 Maiden Lane San Francisco CA 94108 terrorist cryptography DES drugs cipher secret decode NSA CIA NRO IRS coke crack pot LSD russian missile atom nuclear assassinate libyan RSA