RE: Double letters in Boston-market calls

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Then there was 3WE Cleveland in between WTAM #1 and WTAM #2

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> DonKelley@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:37 AM
> To: lawyer@attorneyross.com; dan.strassberg@att.net
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Double letters in Boston-market calls
> 
> 
> In a message dated 7/8/2003 11:47:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> lawyer@attorneyross.com writes:
> 
> > Amherst used to have a triple-letter call, WTTT.  There used to 
> be (and may still be) a 
> > WWWW somewhere in Puerto Rico.  Has there ever been a KKKK 
> > anywhere?
> 
> I was PD at a station with triple calls:  WYYY/Syracuse.  Y94FM.  
> There was (maybe still is) a WXXX (95 Triple X) in Burlington, NH.
> 
> WWWW was a Detroit station for many years.  It was known as W4. 
> When quad stereo was introduced in the 70's they tried it, and 
> had a mascot called Quadzilla.  Just FYI, if you try to go to 
> what their website would have been (www.wwww.com) you get a 
> German consulting firm.