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Re: Made-up callsigns

And it was written--
> > 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".

NOT TRUE.  Myth alert!  As I stated in a previous post, this is an example 
of a sequentially assigned call to which a meaning was  attached later 
on.  There is absolutely no evidence that WMAQ stood for anything when it 
was assigned (WMAB, WMAC, WMAD, etc).