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From: capmkt!brent@uunet.uu.net (Brent Chapman)
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Subject: Re: Radio Station Names (Australia, Canada, HCJB)
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Date: 22 Sep 89 23:20:58 GMT
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kaufman@neon.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
#The Moderator Writes:
#>                                   Some are more obscure: the old WEFM here
#>in Chicago was named for Edward F. McCormick, president of the Zenith Radio
#>Corporation...
#
#Naming stations for people is rather common.  KRHM-FM (which no longer exists)
#in Los Angeles was named for the owners:  Ruth and Harry Mazlish.

Kingman, Arizona, is a little town (population about 15,000) in northwest
Arizona (closer to Las Vegas than to Phoenix) that has the rather strange
distinction of having both KAAA-AM and KZZZ-FM...

-Brent