KRUX in Las Cruces, NM.
KVIE TV in Sacramento is Channel six, and PBS, therefore educational TV.
KUOI was the University of Idaho radio station located on the Moscow campus. If I remember correctly, its range was not much farther than the campus boundary.
KWAL is headquartered in Wallace, Idaho. The studio and transmitter are located in Osburn.
Fond memories of WCFL coming in late at night after the tubes warmed up in the radio by my bed. Which was weird, because I was way up north in Wisconsin. Weirder was that after midnight we got KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas (anyone remember their show “Bleeker Street”? First time I heard ‘hippie music’ broadcast).
So, any logic behind KAAY… or KDKA (Pittsburgh – I understand they had some exemption from the “Stations east of the Mississippi must start with a W” rule)?
Houston’s public (FM) radio and TV stations are KUHF and KUHT, broadcast from the University of Houston.
In SF there was KSAN and KIOI (both the frequency 101.3 and the 101 Freeway?).
Further south was the eclectic country KFAT (the wide spot on the dial) later replaced by the current KPIG - two of my all time favorite stations.
Prior to 1978, MIT’s student radio station was WTBS, which they said stood for Tech Broadcasting Station. Then Ted Turner “bought” it so the call letters could stand for Turner Broadcast Station, and MIT changed its to WMBR, for Walker Memorial Basement Radio. (The studio always was in the basement of Walker Memorial, the old student center prior to the Julius Adams Stratton building going up on Mass Ave.)
No mention yet of WGN (World’s Greatest Newspaper)?
None at all, except in the sixth post.
You forgot WNAP for Naptown.
WHRB is Harvard Radio Broadcasting.
I just thought of another one. KORN in Mitchell, SD, home of the world’s only corn palace.
WGBH (public radio and TV in Boston) is named after Great Blue Hill, where the radio transmitter is and original TV transmitter was.
Some more local university stations:
KUSC is the University of Southern California (aka USC) station
KLON used to be LONg Beach School District, then Cal State Long Beach’s station. They’ve since changed the call letters to KJZZ (they play jazz)
KCSN - Cal State Northridge
KNHS - North High School - yep, a high school station. It had a range of about 3 miles, and I could just barely pick it up at my house.
And while there was no local significance that I know of, San Jose’s KOME-FM had the best promos. “Don’t touch that dial, it’s got KOME on it”
KENI in Anchorage, AK. Kenai (pronounced ‘KEEN-eye’ is the name of a town, a river and a peninsula.
WBAL for Baltimore is pretty obvious.
WNAV for Annapolis named for the Naval Academy.
WAPL gained some noteriety when prince William (William Arthur Philip Lewis) was born – IIRC the radio station set a T-shirt (wikipedia sais they sent “gifts”)
WKAU (no longer in exitance) refered th Kaukauna, WI though wikipedia says the FM station (now WPCK - packers) is in Denmark, WI. The AM station (was WJOK now also off teh air) was in Kaukauna
WLAX (Fox 25) refers to La Crosse, WI not Los Angeles
Brian
I remember WAPL sending Prince William the t-shirt, and being amused by it.
WKAU was my favorite station when I was in high school in Green Bay in the early 80s. I’m sad that it’s gone.
Another radio station in the Green Bay area: WNFL, which got those call letters in the 1960s, when the Packers were winning NFL championships. The station has carried Packers broadcasts in the past, as well, though they don’t do so today.