[BC] Call Letters

[Mike McCarthy]

WGN...World's Greatest Newspaper
WMAQ...We May Ask Questions
WSBC...World Storage Battery Company
WVON...Voice of the Negro...now Nation
WTMJ...The Milwaukee Journal
WCFL...Chicago Federation of Labor
WTTW...Window to the World
WFLD...Field (as in department store magnate Marshal Field who started the 
now Fox UHF station in the 60's)
WPNA...Polish National Alliance
WCEV...Chicago's Ethnic Voice
WIVS (Wive's) for a couple owners who bought it for their wives.

WLS-TV was not that at the start.  They were WBKB or something like that...

MM

At 10:45 AM 3/2/2009 -0500, Tom wrote
>And originally by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
>
>World's Largest Store
>
>Hmm
>
>Speaking of which -
>
>We Shield Millions
>
>The (in)famous "Whole Lotta Watts"
>
>How many other original legacy calls - 3 or 4 letters - actually STOOD for 
>something?
>
>We're
>Indiana
>Broadcasting
>Company
>
>Williams F M Service
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>(W) Arthur Jordan Conservatory
>
>(W) A T I
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>Eighty One; that's one the texters should get: 8ti
>
>And that's just one market's worth off the top of my head....
>
>"Making" the calls mean something is different; WFBM = Woof Boom doesn't 
>count.
>
>Mike McCarthy wrote:
>>We have WLS-AM, -FM, and -TV.  The AM and FM are owned by Citidel and the 
>>TV by Disney.  Though all were ABC O&O at one time.
>
>--
>Tom Spencer
>PG-18-25453 (nee' P1-18-48841)
>http://radioxtz.com/
>Part 15 transmitters on AM 540 and FM 100.1
>