Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[A Joseph Ross]

Well, sometime in the 1960s, WPLM was using the slogan "We Play Lovely 
Music," so it's not much of a stretch.


On 6/10/2019 2:29 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Gary's Ice Cream wrote:
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>> 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".
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> I always thought "we haul dead haddock" was a back-formation, like "we 
> play lousy music" for WPLM, or "God bless Harvard" for WGBH.
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> Rob
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