Radiostations in the USA

Geen idee waar het voor staat.

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:28 schreef Doc het volgende:
Waarom oh waarom, vroegen we (ik en degenen met mij) ons af tijdens het leegdrinken van een kratje bier, beginnen de namen van alle radiostations in de USA met een

W

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:38 schreef Dinosaur_Sr het volgende:

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in de USA is alles toch 'Wicked'?

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Austin 90.5

DIE HEET 'KUT RADIO'

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:32 schreef Jozzy het volgende:
Ja! In china beginnen ze allemaal met een X, raar man!

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:47 schreef MOD het volgende:
ken een radio station daar in de USA..

DIE HEET 'KUT RADIO'

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en op welke frequentie zenden die dan uit, en welke stad?

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:48 schreef Doc het volgende:

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Zal wel W-KUT radio wezen

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Dear Yahoo!

Why do all U.S. radio station call letters start with the letter W?

Virginia
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Virginia:

At first, we were a little confused with your question. Here in California, you'd be hard-pressed to find a radio station that starts with W. As far as we know, they all start with K. But enough of the semantics, on with the search...

We started our search by typing "radio station history," which led us to the Radio > History category. We perused the list of sites, checked those that looked relevant, but were ultimately disappointed. Most of the sites contained info on specific radio stations, the history of modern radio, or sound clips and files. We found nothing about call letters.

Next, we chose to get very specific and searched on "call letter policy" (using quotation marks around the phrase). Two sites were returned; the first titled United States Call Letter Policies, just what we were looking for.

By reading over the document, we learned that the letters K and W originated early in the 20th century as part of a worldwide index of ship radio stations. K stood for ships on the East coast, W for ships in the Pacific. For some reason, when the letters were extended to land-based stations, they were reversed, with the Mississippi River eventually adopted as the dividing line. Ever since 1923, stations west of the river start with a K, those east of it start with a W.

For more, check out the original 1913 document that details the international call-letter assignments.

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2002 23:54 schreef Zander het volgende:
Hier komt het juiste antwoord, Doc:
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Bron: http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20000112.html

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Do they REALLY only sell cofee....?

Wie kent die serie?