[BC] Baby is here...

[Urban, Brian L]

KGBT (analog 4, Harlingen, TX) now KGBT-TV signed on in I think 1954 (online FCC records only go back to 1978).  Initials for Genevieve B Tichenor, wife of station founder McHenry Tichenor.  The original radio station call (from 1949?) was KGBS, changed to KGBT on a date unknown to me.  The Tichenor family is no longer involved in either operation (mores the pity for that).


On 5/14/08 11:06 AM, "rj carpenter" <rcarpen1 at verizon.net> wrote:



Thomas Toliver Goldsmith Fybush

WTTG Washington was named after him and it's likely the oldest
continuously-used TV call based on a person's name. I think it's
sixty years now.




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