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Post by oldiesfunhouse on Nov 20, 2018 10:35:11 GMT -6
Getting back to KRLX, in case some of you didn't read it, I thought it was incredibly interesting the way they came up with their call letters according to Wikipedia. (If you clicked the link and read this, disregard, but if you didn't, read on). The station, KRLX, is owned by Carleton College. The KRL was for Karl and the X is the Roman Numeral for ten so basically, KRLten or X. We had a TV station in Salt Lake that used a Roman Numeral for its call letters. Does anyone remember? ... Answer coming up right now! Channel 14 which is now KJZZ, when it first signed on, I want to say in the late 80s, it had the calls KXIV. XIV being the Roman Numeral for the number 14. I knew its call letters back then but hadn't thought of it and one of my friends pointed out that it sounded like a Roman Numeral. I thought about it and realized XIV was indeed the Roman Numberal for 14. Sorry! Off-topic but I thought it was cool and worth a mention.
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 20, 2018 12:23:33 GMT -6
Getting back to KRLX, in case some of you didn't read it, I thought it was incredibly interesting the way they came up with their call letters according to Wikipedia. (If you clicked the link and read this, disregard, but if you didn't, read on). The station, KRLX, is owned by Carleton College. The KRL was for Karl and the X is the Roman Numeral for ten so basically, KRLten or X. We had a TV station in Salt Lake that used a Roman Numeral for its call letters. Does anyone remember? ... Answer coming up right now! Channel 14 which is now KJZZ, when it first signed on, I want to say in the late 80s, it had the calls KXIV. XIV being the Roman Numeral for the number 14. I knew its call letters back then but hadn't thought of it and one of my friends pointed out that it sounded like a Roman Numeral. I thought about it and realized XIV was indeed the Roman Numberal for 14. Sorry! Off-topic but I thought it was cool and worth a mention. I remember KXIV. But I did not catch that it was roman numeral for 14 (its channel) until someone else pointed it out to me. Until then, I had thought that they were trying to evoke their station as an Experimental IV infusion of content.
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Post by oldiesfunhouse on Nov 20, 2018 13:47:07 GMT -6
Wow! That's a lot more clever than what their actual intent was with those calls. They would call that a "backronym". An acronym that words were created to fit the letters rather than letters created to fit the word. the letters in AMBER alert are a backronym. I don't remember what they came up with. I think the last two letters are "Emergency Response". If you look at the Wikipedia article for KNX radio in Los Angeles it mentions a backronym.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 21, 2018 3:29:30 GMT -6
This thread has diverged from the original, so I gave it its own.
What's now KCSG in St George also took the KXIV call at one point.
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