Re: WGOD

[Roy Lawrence <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>]

Or for that matter K-U-N-T am or fm
Roy Lawrence
Portland, Maine

- --- "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com> wrote:
> On LTAR today, Bob answered my question about
> whether there was a station 
> called WGOD or KGOD.  He remarked that at one time,
> that would have been 
> considered in bad taste and a station would not have
> asked for those call 
> letters.
> 
> I wonder whether, in times past, the FCC might have
> refused to issue the 
> call letters.  The reason I asked the question was
> because I vaguely 
> remembered reading, back in the 1950s or early 60s,
> of a station that 
> emphasized religious programs which asked for WGOD
> and the FCC refused.  
> This may have been apocryphal, but I suspect that
> the FCC might have been 
> refusing call letters in those days that it
> considered in bad taste.  I 
> suspect they wouldn't have issued calls such as WFUK
> or even KRAP in those 
> days, though I suspect they would now.
> 
> Come to think of it, a cousin who taught school back
> then once told me 
> that there was another teacher whose name was Mr.
> Krapp.  The kids must 
> have loved that one!
> 
> Hmmm.  Is there a WFUK or a KRAP these days?
> 
> 
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