WBUR's L-O-N-G Station ID

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Joe, W-KRPN was in Salt Lake City.

Paul



On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:05 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> On 2/25/2013 4:23 PM, Don wrote:
>
>  Wasn't there a citation for the station in Ohio that would identify as:
>> "WGTZ Eaton (eatin') Dayton Alive!"
>>
>> Or was that an old wives tale?  ;-)
>>
>
> I doubt it was so, if "WGTZ EATON" was itself a legal ID.  I've always
> heard that whatever came before or after the legal ID didn't matter.
>
> There's also a story (true, I think) of a station in San Francisco that
> wanted to call itself WKRP, after the TV show.  Since they couldn't get a
> W- callsign, they got the call letters KRPN and IDed as "This is W -- KRPN
> San Francisco."  According to the story as I heard it, they got away with
> it.
>
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