Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com (Peggy Shambo) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Radio Station Names (Australia, Canada, HCJB) Message-ID:Date: 23 Sep 89 13:34:42 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo) Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL Lines: 19 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 400, message 4 of 5 In article "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. It seems to me that WRGB (Channel 6, Schenectady, NY) was named for Roy G. Biv.. then again, I might be wrong? Anyone got something different on this? Actually I thought it kind of clever. :-) Peg Shambo | Anybody know of any IDMS/ADSO positions in peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com | the South of England? (London, Southampton, | Portsmouth, Bournemouth would all be nice)