WGY (RE: radio in '22)

["Michael P Fitzpatrick Jr." <fitzradio@the-spa.com>]

<Dan Strassberg wrote>

> WBBM was allegedly a
> sequentially assigned call sign (notwithstanding the
> slogans that were made up to "explain" the call sign).
> WBBM would have come quite a while after WZAZ. I don't

I read somewhere that WGY in Schenectady was a sequentially issued call
sign, and didn't stand for
W(G)eneral Electric Schenectad(Y). Which is correct?

--Mike


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