Re: Big purple digit

On 20 Apr 2008 22:59:39 -0400, wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December
Starr) wrote:

>In article <fu3qkp$m50$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>
>Before he bought the station that he renamed to WTBS, you mean.  Up
>until 1980-mumble that call sign belonged to student-run FM radio at
>MIT, with "TBS" unofficially standing for "Tech Broadcasting Service"
>iirc.  Turner _really_ wanted those call letters, though, so he gave
>the MIT station some absurd amount of money with which to buy new
>equipment and in exchange they went to the FCC and requested and
>received permission to change their call sign, freeing up "WTBS" for
>Turner to grab.  They're now WMBR, which unofficially identifies
>where they broadcast from: Walker Memorial Basement Radio. :-)
>
Before that the station here in Atlanta was WTCG fior a while; it's
now WPCH.  This allows the satellite TBS feed to be carried in the
Atlanta area on cable.

Tirner picked up the WTBS call in August 79, accto WIkipedia; the
station originally went on the air as WJRJ

And:

"WPCH-TV is not related to a similarly-called FM radio station in the
Macon area, WPCH FM 102.5, which is owned by Clear Channel
Communications. WPCH was also the call letters in the 1970s, 1980s,
and 1990s for "Peach 94.9", the Atlanta radio station that is now WUBL
FM; and after that (2003 to 2006) for WPCH AM 1380 in the Augusta
area, now WYNF. Like WPCH FM, WYNF and WUBL are both owned by Clear
Channel."

Another station in the Atlanta area - WFOX-FM, at 99.7, went to an
"alternative" format, back before cor****ate marketingf had completely
vitiated that term, calloing itself "99X" and bought the callsign WNNX
from ( i understand) a crewboat in the Gulf of Mexico.

(It would be amusing if it were the boat captained by Doug Samudio,
aka "Sam the Sham" at one time...)

AND Wtbs is now the call of a low-power station on Channel 26 in the
Atlant area, completely unrelated to Turner or TBS.