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call letters = KBVO-CD
(satellite of KBVO, Llano, Texas
KSOQ was previously assigned the call letters KFSD while owned by the Astor Broadcast Group, who chose a format of classical music acquired from Lotus Communications in 1997, which in 2001 switched to an alternative rock format as Premium 92/1, still with the KFSD call letters.
By the early 1980s, WIL-FM was affirmed as the top country-music station in town, and 1430 AM was split off from their FM sister station to start a classic country format, which it kept until 1989 when the station switched to an adult standards format with the call letters WRTH, which were on the air with the same format for many years at 590 AM in Wood River, Illinois (now KFNS AM).
1963 -- The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since 1963 when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama.
call letters = WKBS-TV
(satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)|
Because the call letters (and format) are similar, some have wondered if the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati is based on anything that happened at WKRQ.
WREM is now known as WXME, simulcasting WSKW Skowhegan, Maine, an oldies formatted station previous formats on WXME include news/talk, simulcasting Caribou-based music Channel X Radio under the call letters WCXH and as WREM rebroadcast the talk programming of Presque Isle's WEGP.
CFMZ-FM, a radio station in Cobourg, ON that carried the CFMX-FM call letters until September 2006.
(At that time, the University's football/rugby team, the Queen's Tricolour, were the winners of the Grey Cup for three consecutive years, and it is a common myth that when the current call letters CFRC were assigned, their meaning was "Canada's Famous Rugby Champions", however the relationship was purely coincidental).
CIRK-FM was a rebroadcaster in Jasper, Alberta with local tourist information and has changed to its current call letters CJAG-FM.
In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The WLWI call letters are used by an AM and FM radio station serving the Montgomery, Alabama radio market.
In his honor, the call letters of one of the university's radio stations was changed to KHKE.
The Hocking River's name was the inspiration for the call letters of Lancaster's Country music radio station WHOK-FM (now WZOH-FM).
The KLCX call letters were originally assigned to a station in the Palm Springs, California market in the early 1990s but were surrendered when its new owners changed the format to smooth jazz and the call letters to KJJZ.
KXWA, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Centennial, Colorado, United States, which held the call letters from 2008-2011.
KSHO, American AM radio station ("Unforgettable 920") in small Oregon city of Lebanon, which began broadcasting in 1950 as KGAL and used those call letters until 1991
The KSWO call letters are now exclusively used by the television station and KRHD is now used as the call sign for the Drewry-owned ABC affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Texas.
In 1947, it changed its calls to KVOF after finding out the WTCM call letters were already being used by a station in Traverse City, Michigan.
In 1969, former Montana Governor Tim M. Babcock bought the station and changed the station's call letters to KTCM (Television for the Capitol of Montana).
On June 24, 2008, KKTU-LP changed its call letters to KDEV-LP, after KDEV changed its call sign to KQCK.
The station was assigned the KWJZ-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 12, 2012.
KYMA-DT, the call letters of a television station in Yuma, Arizona USA.
The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.
In addition the paper owned radio station WFNX based in Lynn, MA, from 1983 until 2012 when it was sold to Clear Channel and is now dance station WEDX (the WFNX call letters are now on a station in Athol, MA).
Before the merger with CBS Corporation in 1999, it also acted as the licensee company for Viacom's owned television stations; for instance New Britain, Connecticut station WVIT, currently an NBC owned and operated station for the Hartford market owned by Viacom from 1978 until 1997, took their call letters from Viacom International.
By 1998 the WIST call letters were back to Statesville, with the Real Country format on the station, and the station became WAME again in October 2000.
Now known simply by the stations call letters WAQY, they played a mix of new rock music from the 1980s mixed with older rock artists of the '60s (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix etc.) and 1970s (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.) Artists played included then current and popular Arena rock favorites Blue Öyster Cult, Journey, Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac as well as singer and songwriter artist from Tom Petty to Billy Joel.
WWIK, a radio station (98.9 FM) licensed to McClellanville, South Carolina, United States which formerly used the call letters WAZS-FM
WJRW, a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States which formerly used the call letters WBBL.
On February 26, 2008 WBDI changed their call letters to WBDR (102.7 changed their call letters to WLYK on the same day).
WCCW-AM, whose call letters stand for "Cherry Capitol of the World", signed on in 1960 under the ownership of John Anderson, a former Midwestern employee who ventured out on his own with contemporary ideas and skills learned working for Midwestern as a salesman in the 1950s.
The WCLZ call letters remained on 98.9 until 1999, when the station was sold from Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting to Citadel Communications.
In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.
The last song on Nine FM was intended to be "Kiss This Thing Goodbye" by Del Amitri, but ended up being "Crush" by Jennifer Paige, likely an homage to the "WKIE" call letters' 10 year run with "Crush" being one of the first hit songs on the station.
Originally an FM Talk station, they eventually switched to an Adult Top 40 format with the call letters WDKS in 1997.
At first, the FCC denied the call letters to the new station, stating that MTM Enterprises, the producers of the popular CBS series WKRP in Cincinnati, had a 'hold' on the callsign.
The station changed its call letters to WJXS-CA in 2002, as an affiliate of FamilyNet.
After buying WJTP in 1996, Steve Rondinaro's Rondinaro Broadcasting changed that stations's call letters to WECR and started WECR-FM, along with buying WXIT.
In 1975, Beasley Broadcast Group purchased the station from Multicom for $550,000, and changed the call letters to WDMT ("Dyno-mite", which happened to be a well known catch phrase on the popular sitcom Good Times).
The call letters at 99.3 MHz changed to WHER "Eagle 99" playing Classic rock following the acquisition by Clear Channel.
WXKC 99.3 MHz, a radio station in Erie, Pennsylvania that held the call letters until 1985.
WMOV-FM signed on in 1990 under the ownership of J.H. Communications as WXRI-FM; taking the call letters of the former station on the 105.3 frequency that had been owned by televangelist Pat Robertson until its sale in May 1989.
WWCK-FM, an AM radio station in Flint, Michigan that held the WMRP call letters from 1964 until 1971.
WRMF, an FM station in Palm Beach, Florida, which used the call letters WMUM until 1973
Detroit’s 92.3 FM begins with a construction permit with the call letters WIPE, held by jazz disc jockey Sleepy Stein and Henry Mancini.
In 2006 Ron Meredith and M&M Broadcasting purchased WXJB, WFXY and WANO in Middlesboro, KY, Harrogate, TN and Pineville, KY, immediately spun off WFXY and WANO and changed the call letters to WMYL branded the station as Merle FM and moved it to Knoxville, TN licensed to Halls Cross Roads.
WRC-TV the NBC-affiliated station in Washington, DC, which at one time held the WNBW call letters
The station was assigned the WNRJ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on August 1, 2011.
WWWL, New Orleans radio station formerly with call letters WSMB.
WHUR-FM 96.3, a radio station in Washington, D.C. that held the WTOP-FM call letters from the early 1960s until 1971
From 1989 to 2001, the call letters WWKY were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky at 790 kHz, which had formerly been WAKY.