[BC] call letters and what they stand for

[Jerry Mathis]

My first job in commercial radio was at WORM-AM-FM in Savannah, TN. At the 
time, Savannah was noted for its "worm ranches" for the sport fishing 
industry (Pickwick Lake and Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River were close 
by).

I like to say that I started at an "underground" station  :)

I helped start an educational FM in the same area. The man behind the 
station wanted to get call letters named for his mother, Dorothy Kramer 
Nielsen (call letters would have been WDKN). However, those call letters 
were in use just a few miles up the road in Dickson, TN, so he settled for 
WDNX.

WORM is still in use by the AM in Savannah, although I believe the FM has 
different calls now. And the WDKN call is available on FM, last time I 
checked, although the station founder is deceased and no one is really 
interested in making a change.

Jerry Mathis
Clear Channel Radio, Tupelo & Meridian MS




Jerry Mathis
Clear Channel Radio, Tupelo & Meridian MS





>From: DHultsman5 at aol.com
>Reply-To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Subject: Re: [BC] call letters and what they stand for
>Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 08:32:44 EDT
>
>
>In a message dated 9/30/2005 9:38:54 AM Central Standard Time,
>burban at kut.org writes:
>
>
>KGBS  and later KGBT
>For the owner's wife's initials
>Still on the air in the  Lower Rio Grande Valley under a derivative of the
>original owner (currently  Univison Radio)
>
>--
>Brian Urban
>
>
>
>And not forgetting WGBS 710 Miami.  George B. Storer.
>
>Of course  WGAR.  Cleveland  G. A. Richards
>
>There are many of these.
>
>Dave
>
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