Random question about radio/tv

[Loppfessor]

How come (In the States) on the Eastcoast, Midwest, and Down South the call letters for radio and tv stations all start with a "W" and out West they start with "K"????

[na§tee]

yes, i've always wondered this, too.

but in my degree i learnt that they are call signs; they specify the locality and type of station, and the individual station. i can't explain it as eloquently as google can: see here (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/callsigns/callsigns.htm).

[Helvete]

Fun way to find new radio stations, randomly type letters! I'm listening to WQNA Radio from Springfield, IL right now.

[na§tee]

how can you listen to radio stations from america online? not online radio stations, ya hear, i mean proper broadcast radio stations that happen to stream their shows online.. in real time?
whenever i try it always says "YOU ARE FROM TEH U.K OUTSIDE THIS TERRITORY YOU CANNOT LISTEN WARNING WARNING GET OUTTA HERE!" or something similar.
tips?

[Helvete]

By using a US proxy.

[Loppfessor]

Wow I'm having fun and I'm learning new things...(y)

[roosta]

its about something to do with being east or west of the mississipi...

[chrisd]

"There you have it, clear as day: like the ships off the Atlantic coast, the land-based stations in the east were to have K designations, while stations in the west, like ships off the Pacific coast, were to have W designations. For entirely unknown reasons, though, these labels got swapped before they were implemented. Later that year, stations in the west began getting K call letters, while stations in the east got W call letters. A 1914 booklet of regulations titled Radio Stations of the United States codified the K-in-the-west, W-in-the-east practice, which was followed strictly thereafter, except when it wasn’t"

From: http://itotd.com/articles/579/radio-call-letters/

*"Prelude C# Minor" composed by Rachmaninoff, performed by Lex Baxter*

Those unknown reasons later turned out to be three MIAs on horseback with pistoleros like you never seeeeeeen!

[b i o n i c]

i was thinking about this yesterday.


i love it when they spell something with the call letters

WHOA, KISS, KUNT

[Loppfessor]

i was thinking about this yesterday.


i love it when they spell something with the call letters

WHOA, KISS, KUNT


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