Letter/number nicknames, and "rounding off"...

[David Tomm]

There are several stations in Connecticut that still use letter- 
number ID's...

KC-101 (WKCI/Hamden)
96.5 TIC (WTIC-FM/Hartford)
Q-105 (WQGN/Groton)
I-95 (WRKI/Brookfield)
98Q (WDAQ/Danbury)
I-98.3 (WILI-FM/Willimantic)
14WILI (WILI/Willimantic)

..and I'm sure I'm missing a few others.



On Oct 3, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

> I worked for one station that rounded off..
>
> "Country Thunder Z96" (KYYZ, 96.1)
>
> Another station near me rounded off as well "Your Classic Hits  
> Station, Z93
> WZLA" (WZLA, 92.9)
>
> I can think of two stations in Connecticut, one that rounds off and  
> one that
> doesnt...
>
> "97.7 WCTY"
> "Kool 101" (WKNL, 100.9)
>
> Paul Walker
> www.onairdj.com
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> I remember when the 105.7 freq lic. to Framingham was WVBF...and I  
>> also
>> remember how they used to have a nickname: "F-105"
>>
>> These days such nicknames are first names (Jack, Jill, Mike, Hank,
>> Frank--even XM gets into the
>> act with, I  kid you not, Fred, Ethel, and Lucy) or animal  
>> monikkers (The
>> Fox, The Wolf,
>> Bear, Froggy, etc.) But for awhile, and maybe still today in some  
>> places
>> you had letter/number
>> nicknames. Yeah, take one or two letters and a ref to the  
>> frequency and
>> there you go:
>>
>> WVBF 105.7 --- F-105
>>
>> WMEX 1510 --- X-15
>>
>> Oops, now that I think of it some still are in use! "B-101" Prov,  
>> or is
>> that not being used
>> anymore?; Seacoast area used to have "B-95.3"
>> (now the Kiss simulcast, right?)
>>
>> Any from the area I can't remember?
>>
>> also on a slight tangent, how about stations who rounded off their
>> frequencies?
>>
>> (jingle): "Ninety-four....WCGY" (93.7 actually)
>> Chopping off last digit:
>> "WBZ 103(0)"
>> "68(0) WRKO"
>> "Radio 8" (800 AM, WCCM)
>> "85(0), WHDH"
>>
>> and
>> "Rock 94 and a half, WCOZ" (94.5)
>>
>> Of course some AM radios, expecially in the past, had rounded off  
>> spots on
>> the dial
>>
>> "5.4--7--9--11-13-15" or certainly
>> "54--70--90--110--130--150" ("x10 kHz")
>>