Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

Rob Landry 011010001@interpring.com
Mon Jun 10 14:29:50 EDT 2019


On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Gary's Ice Cream wrote:

> I had always heard that since WHDH started on Cape Ann and a fish company
> was somehow involved that the callsign stood for "We Haul Dead Haddock".

I always thought "we haul dead haddock" was a back-formation, like "we 
play lousy music" for WPLM, or "God bless Harvard" for WGBH.


Rob


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