Wednesday, July 14, 2004

WBUR vs. KQED

WBUR vs. KQED - East and West of the Mississippi.

By today's standards, the continued emphasis in the United States on call signs for radio stations is something of an anachronism; most other countries have switched to slogans or network IDs for establishing public identities. I certainly was not used to such naming schemes and it took me a while to recognize some of the patterns. Here is a very detailed summary: The Mystique of the Three-Letter Callsigns.

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