Re: Re: Made-up callsigns (was: WBZ-TV News on WSBK...)

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

>it was written--
>
>WLLH  (Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill)  I had heard, don't know how true it
>is, that the original plan was to place a xmitter in Haverhill as well as
>Lawrence and that's where the call signs came from.

When the late Al Moffat, who had worked in Lexington at WLEX and was 
originally a newsreel photographer, founded WLLH in 1934, he promised the 
newly formed FCC that he would indeed serve those three towns.  I don't 
know if he intended to put a transmitter in any of them, but I have seen 
his service proposal and it included those three towns very specifically, 
hence the requested call letters.