Re: WGOD

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>]

Um, guys....  IMHO.

Bill O'Neill

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Cats <cats@clarityconnect.com>
To: Roy Lawrence <lawrencemedia@yahoo.com>
Cc: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@world.std.com>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: WGOD


> Ahh... good old K-U-N-T.... comes in a little fuzzy..but everyone
gets
> it.... :)
>
> Jay Lent
>
> Roy Lawrence wrote:
>
> > 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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