Re: 2 MAJOR new group owners!

[Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>]

At 08:14 PM 4/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>If you are skeptical about what follows here, remember what Dr. Science's
>announcer is so fond of telling his listeners: "He knows more than you do."
>Fw: [DrScience] W And K
>From: doc@drscience.com[SMTP:doc@drscience.com]
>Reply To: DrScience-owner@onelist.com
>Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:30 PM
>To: DrScience@linux117.dn.net
>Subject: [DrScience] W And K
>
>From: doc@drscience.com
>
>Dear Doctor Science,
>Why do radio stations east of the Mississippi start with the letter W
>and those west of the Mississippi start with a K?
>
>-- Sam Fogleman from Glen Rock, Nj
>
>The first letter of any radio station's call sign indicates the parent
>company of that station. As you may have already noticed, the whole country
>is divided between WalMart and K Mart. K Mart has precedence in the East,
>and WalMart in the South and West. Sure, Target is miffed about this, and
>would like to get into the broadcast name game, but Congress said enough was
>enough when they settled on K and W.  The business of America has always
>been business, and now with public radio's new "enhanced" underwriting
>announcements, there's not a whole lot of difference between profit and
>non-profit anyway.
>
Bill Piacentini disagrees:
I really don't want to start a war here ... but everyone should know the
real history behind the K and W by now:
All calls beginning with K belong to the Mel Karmazin Dynasty and calls
beginning with W belong to the Westinghouse Dynasty.

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