Three Letter Call Letters

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Three Letter Call Letters

Postby jon » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:14 am

We have racked our brains, but cannot think of any other Canadian stations with only three call letters besides CKY, CKX Brandon and those owned by the CBC.

I think we may have posed the question previously, but Today in History this morning brings it up again: have there ever been any other 3 letter call letters used by Canadian radio or TV stations?

When I wrote the above 3 years ago, I did miss one: CHU, the shortwave time signal run by the National Research Council from Ottawa.

Anyone remember any others that may have existed in the past and/or exist in the present?
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Re: Three Letter Call Letters

Postby YesterDaze » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:24 am

How soon we forget CKO, the country's first all-news stations.
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Re: Three Letter Call Letters

Postby Anotherwpgguy » Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:37 pm

Winnipeg's CKY ... originally went on-air somewhere around 1926 owned by Manitoba Telephone Service.....then sold into private hands.

Great signal with 50,000 watts clear channel omni-diectional pattern (daytime anyway ... unsure about night) on 580 Khz in an area with some of the best ground conductivity in North America ... what a huge footprint it had.

It was a very good station ... especially during the lengthy period starting in the mi-80's when Ron Able was doing the morning show ...
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Re: Three Letter Call Letters

Postby jon » Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:43 pm

As mentioned in Today in History this morning, the original CKY became CBW. A few years later, Lloyd Moffat started his own station and called it CKY. No relationship between the two stations other than the recycled call letters.
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