Channel 61?
I don’t see the geography aspect mentioned yet. Radio stations east of the Mississippi have call signs starting with W, and stations west of that have call signs starting with K. There’s 2 or 3 exceptions, I believe, but it’s very close to a universal rule. I have no idea if TV stations follow the same pattern.
It’s really WLVI
Thanks. My Spidey sense told me that one of those two things had to be off 
I had to think about this one for a minute. I suspect that you’re seeing it as a reference to “Kremlin” (hence, Moscow), but when I look up KREM, it’s actually based in Spokane, WA, so I’m not sure that it’s an intentional Moscow reference.
We were able to pull in Muskegon, MI stations (about 80 miles away) and even Grand Rapids (over 100 miles) across the lake back in the 60’s and into the 90’s when conditions were right.
Our regular stations were in Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Speaking of hobbyists who collected extreme long-distance radio signals, stations would get mail from those folks. We were asked to send return postcards affirming that they indeed received our signal (not sure how that was supposed to work).
Nitpick: the call letters WOC were originally randomly assigned. Later, the station owner “sold WOC to Col. B. J. Palmer, and on May 9, 1922, a new license was issued for the Palmer School of Chiropractic (later the Palmer College of Chiropractic) in Davenport, Iowa, the start of a family connection that lasted almost 75 years.”
The Palmer crowd took advantage of the WOC call letters to adopt a station slogan “World (or Wonders) Of Chiropractic”.* 
*full disclosure: in the bad old days I worked for a radio news competitor in the Quad Cities market, KSTT-Davenport. WOC-TV used to have a sloppily produced mini-PSA, in which the announcer intoned “Think Farm Safety!” followed by the clunk of a dropped microphone.
Which was the case here. It might be a problem if you’re very close to the CN Tower, but I was way out in the burbs. It worked just fine. Probably helped that none of the physical channels are adjacent. Also, because transmitters on the CN Tower have the advantage of height, I believe some were required to cut back their power when they moved there. In any case, US stations tend to be powerful – at least those near the Canadian border. WGRZ has an effective radiated power of 480 KW, CBLT on the Tower just 107.
I’m 5 km away and if I had my pre-amp turned on the SIgnal-to-Noise Ratio from CBLT destroyed WGRZ.
Now you know:
In 1960, San Diego State College (now San Diego State University) applied for a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate a non-commercial educational television station to serve San Diego. The station first signed on the air on June 12, 1967, as KEBS-TV.[2] The station was originally a member of National Educational Television (NET) before becoming a member of PBS when it launched on October 6, 1970, at which time the station changed its call letters to KPBS-TV. Despite the calls, which mimic the callsign schemes used by stations owned by ABC, NBC, and CBS in New York City and Los Angeles, it is not an owned-and-operated station (nor is similarly-named WPBS in Watertown, New York), as PBS cannot own or operate any of its member stations or regional member networks due to the service’s local and non-profit nature. The KPBS call sign reflects the station’s affiliation and programming, but not any special status within PBS.
I was a dj at UC San Diego’s ratio station KSDT. San Diego Tritons.
nods There’s a radio station in Española NM, KDCE, whose announcers claimed it stood in for “¿que dice?”
You can’t get the leading “K” or “W” (or whatever) by wanting it, the way you can get the rest; the starting letter is automatic, usually by geographic location east or west (of what? the Mississippi river? I’m not sure myself…)
Chicago’s WCFL was created by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Played top-40 hits throughout my youth.
Apparently it’s now a Christian music station.
That I didn’t know. I first knew of it when the news came out about the murdered college students. And a couple I’m friends with live in Moscow. I didn’t ask them about the news story though.
The dividing line used to be a line due north from the Texas-New Mexico border, but was since changed to be the Mississippi River. Unlike the ITU country prefix, it’s only a convention and there are exceptions, for historical or other reasons, like WBAP in Fort Worth and KDKA in Pittsburgh, both AM radio stations. The convention applies only to commercial broadcasting stations and doesn’t apply to things like time signals (WWV and WWVH) or weather radio.
In Toronto, we have CFRB which stood for “Canada’s First Rogers Batteryless”. The company was owned by Edward Rogers, who commercialized the first widely available radio that ran on AC current. After his early death, the family lost control of the company.
His son, Ted Rogers, built one of the largest telcos in Canada but was never able to purchase the station back after many attempts. He did start CFTR “Canada’s First Ted Rogers” which is still owned by Rogers Communications.
Strange. Looking at a map just now I’d guesstimate my straight-line distance from the CN Tower to have been 13-14 km. I had no problem at all, using a Channel Master 4-bay CM-4221. At the time I had no amplifier on the antenna. I do now because of a long cable run.
ETA: Edited my comment because I thought you had said 5 miles, not 5 km. In fact I was quite a bit farther away than you are. Still, I find it strange that there could be this kind of inteference.
I met Ted Rogers once when doing a demo for him and some board members. I never had any respect for Rogers management and the poor quality of their technical support is the stuff of legend, but Ted himself was a really nice guy. And he did build quite the empire. Ten years ago Rogers beat out the CBC on a 12-year deal for NHL rights worth $5.2 billion, an amount that the crown corporation just couldn’t match.
WCFL was, briefly, a Christian station many years ago, but since the 1990s has been WMVP, a sports-talk station.
Super CFL was one of the all-time great Top 40 rock stations. The story goes that the labor union was never too happy about the format but didn’t push to change it because the station made a lot of money. In the mid-70s they finally got their way and flipped it to Easy Listening “elevator music,” which died spectacularly, and they unloaded it to a religious broadcaster.
Rogers was at one time our main client accounting for about 60% of our revenue. I’ve personally spent about 3 years of my career directly work on Rogers projects.
Back when the City of Toronto banned smoking in offices, a boardroom in the head office at 333 Bloor E was permanently booked off so his wife could go there and smoke when she was in the building. It was obvious when Loretta was in the building from the cigarette smell.