[BC] call letters and what they stand for

[RON DOT'O SR.]

Back in the 80's KSLM 1390 stood for K-Salem, and the companion FM was KSKD 105.1 which stood for "Cascade" (the nearby mountain range boarding our Willamette Valley).  We lovingly converted those calls to K-Slum and K-Scud in the engineering dept.  They were a first class operation and we meant no disrespect.  The FM was formally KORI for the previous owner Oregon Radio Inc. and before that was KSLM-FM.  KSLM-AM signed on in 1934 on 1370 or 1380 and moved to 1390 sometime in the 40's as I recall.  I think the FM came online in the 50's.

Ron Dot'o
Salem, OR.
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  From: Mike McCarthy<mailto:Towers at mre.com> 
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  WSBC---World Storage Battery Corp.  Same calls since 1928.  Except for WGN, 
  longest running station with the same calls in Chicago.

  MM

  At 09:45 PM 9/29/2005 -0500, Kirk Harnack wrote
  >KNIC - Nice Radio for Nice People
  >
  >KSPI - Keeping Stillwater's People Informed
  >
  >WNVL - We're Not Very Loud (it was, oh, so true)
  >
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  >Kirk Harnack
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