[BC] Call letter curiosity

[Fred Morton]

No, but it's interesting that they're one of the few cases I'm aware of 
where a three letter call has been dropped, then retrieved. Maybe KYA put 
the calls on a co-owned FM, then got them back that way.

KRE in Berkeley did the same thing a few years later, back in the 80's.

Fred Morton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Mishkind" <barry at oldradio.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: [BC] Call letter curiosity


> In discussing KYA in SanFran, someone wondered why they changed calls to 
> KDBQ in 1960 and reverted to KYA 2 weeks later.
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> Someone suggested a wild speculation: KYA was co-owned with KCBQ in San 
> Diego ...  and KYA's top 40 competitor, KEWB, was part of a KDWB KEWB KFWB 
> ownership package (Crowell Collier).  They asked if, perhaps, Bartell, the 
> owner of KYA and KCBQ, decided to make all their call letters fit a 
> pattern, like Crowell Collier did - but changed their mind 2 weeks later?
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> Does anyone know?
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