Station addresses confused!

[Doug Drown]

When I first read of WVDA, I wondered about the potential confusion 
with WJDA.  Not surprising that they changed their call letters to WEZE. 

I read once that when GE was preparing to put WGY on the air in 1922, 
they went through quite a process trying to determine what the call 
letters should be.  "WGE" was their first and most obvious choice, but 
somehow it just didn't sound right.  They finally settled on W (for 
Wireless [supposedly]), G (for General Electric) and Y (the last letter 
in Schenectady).  Then, after figuring all that out and deciding on it, 
they wrung their hands wondering whether people would confuse the 
station with WJY, a station already operating in New York City. 

-Doug


Quoting Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net>:
> >
> >  WVDA 1260 (transmitting from Milton) was
> > the next station on the dial to WJDA 1300 (which transmits from
> > Braintree). 
>
>
>
> I thought WJDA transmits from a location off of Sea St. in Quincy.  Did they
> move
> their transmitter at some point?
>
>
> -Bob
>