Re: Made-up callsigns

[Scott Saloway <saloway@bu.edu>]

Oh, there are so many. 

My personal favorite is the late, lamented WEVD.

That, of course, started as a labor-oriented station, and the call letters
stand for the labor leader Eugene V. Debs.

I know, it's still WEVD, but it's not the same.

Donna...give us some of the other good ones.

--Scott--

who works at WKOK and is afraid to ask where that came from.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 RyanWCAP@aol.com wrote:

> I also attended Syracuse, and worked at WJPZ, although well after its 
> inception.  As the story goes, (told every year at the alumni banquet), WJPZ 
> got its call letters because they wanted something that sounded like WABC.  
> And thus it was born.  I know lots of other stations have stories like this.  
> In Chicago, WGN in Chicago stands for "World's Greatest Newspaper" (the 
> Chicago Tribune Co. owns it), the former WMAQ, (an all-news station) stood 
> for "We Must Ask Questions".  Any other local interesting stories about where 
> call letters came from?
> 
> Ryan 
>