HOLD ON JUST A SECOND
Anyone who believes this guy didn't know what he was asking for, please report to the Reality Fairy for an update.
(Thanks to many people, but Randy Hale first)
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I nearly went to UNT, and everyone really thought (at the college I actually did go to the first time) that those were its call letters.
Posted by: Glix | July 30, 2007 at 04:45 PM
Oooh, a first! Anyway, a younger guy in our little group of friends transferred there later, and SWORE that those were the call signs...even after they were telling him, "Too late, (Glix) already covered this before you came here." (It's KNTU).
Posted by: Glix | July 30, 2007 at 04:47 PM
*Changes "signs" to "letters".
Posted by: Glix | July 30, 2007 at 04:48 PM
It's for this very reason that the all the licence plates in my home province do not contain any vowels.
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | July 30, 2007 at 04:49 PM
It's unfortunately not true, but there was supposedly, once, a Memphis radio station, run by women, called WHOR.
Posted by: Phil | July 30, 2007 at 04:49 PM
I heard that sxi and annie just wrote to the FCC claiming that the Fairness Doctrine mandated that their demand for KOCK be met immediately.
Posted by: SW | July 30, 2007 at 04:54 PM
Call letters, license plates ... but some school districts won't allow kids to wear t-shirts with such printed on them.
Posted by: MOTW | July 30, 2007 at 04:55 PM
I remember a radio station in Jacksonville,when I was a lad, with the letters WAPE. They billed themselves as the Big APE.
Posted by: fivver | July 30, 2007 at 04:59 PM
"Broadcasters use the FCC Web site to request and receive call letters with no oversight from Beavis, his partner, or any FCC regulator."
Hey, dude, nobody ASKED me!!
Posted by: Butthead | July 30, 2007 at 04:59 PM
Having worked for 3 FCC regulated TV stations, I can honestly say they all could have gone under KWTF.
Posted by: Doc Rick | July 30, 2007 at 05:04 PM
I suppose, then, KRAP is still available...?
Posted by: Wes S. | July 30, 2007 at 05:16 PM
Fivver-
I grew in J'ville too, and WAPE was my favorite radio station. They still do the Ape call at the top of every hour.
The only fun one we get up here is KARE. Puke!
Posted by: MareBear | July 30, 2007 at 05:24 PM
WHUT?
Posted by: CJrun | July 30, 2007 at 05:32 PM
What are the odds of finding the one guy in radio who doesn't know what KUNT sounds like? WTF?
Posted by: Bethie | July 30, 2007 at 05:38 PM
Wes, is it?
(Yeah, I know it's fake...)
Posted by: Glix | July 30, 2007 at 06:39 PM
*SMACKS* Stevie!!!
hmm actually not a bad idea, after all.
"GET YOUR KOCK IN THE MORNINGS FOLKS!!" (nice family-oriented slogan for our morning show).
I like.
Posted by: Siouxie | July 30, 2007 at 06:52 PM
Last I checked, KRAK was still broadcasting out of the Sacramento area.
Posted by: daisyj | July 30, 2007 at 08:35 PM
KOMG! (KBBQ?)
Posted by: Mr Death | July 30, 2007 at 09:12 PM
We used to have WAPI in Birmingham, Alabama. They used to hand out t'shirts with bananas on them. Not really that exciting.
Posted by: Bethie | July 30, 2007 at 10:11 PM
I'm taking umbrage.
Posted by: Eleanor | July 30, 2007 at 10:32 PM
Just make sure you put it back where you found it when you're done.
Posted by: SW | July 31, 2007 at 01:18 AM
Until 1998 San Jose, CA had a station with the call letters KOME.
The some of the sounder/stinger/station breaks I remember where "don't touch that dial there is KOME on it" and "K-O-M-E, your KOME (sp) spot on the radio."
Dennis Erectus was the star DJ of the station.
Posted by: bgbear | July 31, 2007 at 02:06 PM
UPDATE: The owners have since modified their contract. They'll be going live in October on KFED.
Posted by: F4vrefly | September 02, 2007 at 06:53 PM