FW: WSMN (Was: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

[Gary's Ice Cream]

Weather, Sports, Music & News is what Al Rock always told me when I worked there in the 70's.            Across the street, WOTW stood for the original owner, Otis T Wingate (of Wingate's Pharmacy).

Gary F.
Gary’s Ice Cream – Chelmsford Creamery, Inc.  Chelmsford, MA    garysicecream.com
Ice Cream College – classes in Massachusetts and Florida        icecreamcollege.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Don <astelle.donald@gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:14 PM
To: Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>; 'Doug Drown' <ashboy1951@gmail.com>; 'Ken VanTassell' <kenwvt@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Boston Radio Mailing List' <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Subject: WSMN (Was: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia

What did WSMN stand for?  Salem, Manchester, Nashua?

Or did it stand for nothing at all?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary's Ice Cream" <gary@garysicecream.com>
To: "'Doug Drown'" <ashboy1951@gmail.com>; "'Ken VanTassell'" 
<kenwvt@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Boston Radio Mailing List'" 
<boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia


> Kresgees
>
> Gary F.
> Gary’s Ice Cream – Chelmsford Creamery, Inc.  Chelmsford, MA 
> garysicecream.com
> Ice Cream College – classes in Massachusetts and Florida 
> icecreamcollege.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest 
> <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org> On Behalf Of Doug 
> Drown
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:36 PM
> To: Ken VanTassell <kenwvt@gmail.com>
> Cc: Boston Radio Mailing List 
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: Call Letters Meaning on Wikipedia
>
> Wonder what he thought the K stood for?
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:52 AM Ken VanTassell <kenwvt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I was in High School back in the mid 70's my English teacher told
>> the class that all the station call signs that started with W were all
>> owned by Westinghouse. Needless to say I had to correct him.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 9:11 AM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I noticed recently that WGBH's WCRB has started using "We're
>> > Classical Radio Boston", which the old WCRB used briefely in the early 
>> > '90's.
>> >
>> > But of course the call letters originally had nothing to do with the
>> > format, but stood for Charles River Broadcasting, which ran WCRB(AM)
>> > for several years as a full service station in Waltham before
>> > adopting the classical format in 1950-51.
>> >
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Donna Halper wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 6/10/2019 10:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>> > >> I am always amazed at the "Call Letters Meaning" section of
>> > >> entries
>> for
>> > >> radio and TV stations on Wikipedia. I wonder who writes them (and
>> why).
>> > For
>> > >> example, WNEU in Merrimack NH has listed that its call letters
>> > >> stand
>> for
>> > >> "New (or Nueva)
>> > >
>> > > I spend way too much time fixing errors on Wikipedia, especially
>> > > with
>> > regard
>> > > to radio history.  The "meaning" of call letters is a frequent
>> > > area of contention.  Often, folks confuse an advertising slogan
>> > > for what the
>> > call
>> > > letters meant-- the call letters were often sequentially assigned
>> > > back
>> > in the
>> > > old days; but then the sales department retrofitted those calls
>> > > with a slogan, and everybody in the audience assumed that's what
>> > > the call
>> > letters
>> > > must represent. As you and I know, many of the folks who
>> > > contribute to Wikipedia are not media historians, so their
>> > > contributions (although
>> > > well-meaning) are sometimes not accurate. Fixing the mistakes is
>> > > an
>> > ongoing
>> > > battle, sad to say.  And no, WHDH never stood for "we haul dead
>> > haddock..."
>> > > ;-)
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > >
>> > > Donna L. Halper, PhD
>> > > Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies Lesley
>> > > University, Cambridge MA
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
> 


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