Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

Bill Welch bwelch1957@verizon.net
Tue Jun 11 10:27:16 EDT 2019


Correct for WGBH 
WGBX stands for Great Blue Experimental
WGBY stands for Great Blue Yonder. And a planned station on Mt Greylock was going to be WGBW Great Blue West


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> On Jun 10, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Richard Chonak <richard@chonak.com> wrote:
> 
> WGBH claims their letters stand for Great Blue Hill:
> 
> https://www.wgbh.org/support/2018/03/28/great-blue-hill-society
> 
> --RC
> 
> 
>> On 6/10/19 2:29 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
>> 
>> 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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