Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: capmkt!brent@uunet.uu.net (Brent Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Radio Station Names (Australia, Canada, HCJB) Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 89 23:20:58 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Capital Market Technology, Inc.; Berkeley, CA Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 396, message 6 of 8 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