[BC] Call Letters question...

Ronald J. Dot'o Sr. ron.doto at comcast.net
Tue Jun 12 21:37:10 CDT 2012


----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>

> On 6/12/2012 1:02 PM, Blaine Thompson wrote:
>> Someone just told me this.  Any idea if it's true, or not?
>>
>> "Someone at the federal level had a "rule" that four letter call signs
>> (WZZY, for example) could not have 3 consecutive identical letters"  This
>> would be in the 1920s.
>>

FWIW Detroit has had WWWW (W-4) for decades.  Don't know if they're still
going but I remember them from when I lived there in the 60' and 70's.

Ron D

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