HARTFORD RADIO HISTORY

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Call Letter Meanings

Call Letters and their meanings:

The FCC, which assigns call letters, doesn't care what they stand for (with a few exceptions) but many call letters have meanings. They often represent such things at the initials of the owners or parent corporation or they may represent the station's mission or format. As you can see below some of these means are no longer valid, such Travelers Insurance Company no longer owning WTIC, but stations often hold on to heritage call letters for obvious reasons.

Call Letters and their meanings:

WACC-LP      Asnuntuct Community College

WADS            Ansonia-Derby-Shelton/Seymour

WAOF           Avon Old Farms (carrier current)

WAPJ World (of) Arts, People, Joy

WATR WaTeRbury

WAVZ Waves (New Haven)

WBCR Briarwood College Radio (carrier current)

WBMI Broadcast Music Inc.

WBVC Bill V. Cargill

WBRY WaTerBuRY (later WQQW)

WCCC We Cover Connecticut’s Capitol,

Later Color, Cut and Clarity

WCTF CT Family Radio

WCTY CounTrY

WCUM CUMbre

WDRC Doolittle Radio Company

WEBE We Be 108

WECS Eastern Connecticut State

WEDW            Educational Western CT

WEHW           East Hartford Windsor (later WSOR and then WKND)

WELI               ELI Whitney

WENU             We 'N You at 92 (later WWYZ)

WERB             Educational Radio Berlin?

WESU "WESleyan Univ."

WFCS Fm Ct State?

WFHA            Farmers Home Association

WFIF              FIFteen Hundred

WFMQ           FM Quality

WFNW           Financial News for Waterbury

WFSB Francis S. Beebe

WGCH GreenwiCH

WGSK Webatuck Gaylordsville South Kent

WGTH General Tire Hartford

WHCN Hartford Concert Network

WHCT Hartford Connecticut Television

WHDD Robin HooD Radio

WHNB Hartford New Britain

WHUS Huskies

WICC Industrial Capital of Connecticut

WICH Norwich

WIHS In His Service

WILI                WILImantic

WINE              "WInE Radio, Good Radio"

WINY              "WINnY, The Community Gal" (station mascot)

WIOF              One Oh Four

WJBX JukeBoX

WJMJ Jesus Mary and Joseph

WJZZ JaZZ

WKCI              Kops-Monahann Communications Incorporated

WKHL             Kool

WKHT             K(c)ountry HiTs

WKNB "Kensington, New Britain"

WKND Kenneth N. Dawson (orig. owner)

WKSS KiSS

WLAD "We Love All of Danbury", "Lee And Dolan"

WLAT LATino

WLCR Licthfield County Radio (silent),

also Loomis Chaffee School (carrier current)

WLIS Long Island Sound (Old Saybrook)

WLVX Roman Numerals for ???

WMLB Marylou, Lou, Barry (owners)

WMMM Westport's Modern Minuteman

WMMW Meriden Middletown/Middlefield Wallingford

WMNR Monroe

WMPS Miss Porters School (carrier current)

WMRQ Modern Rock

WNAB We're Nuts About Bridgeport.

WNBC New Britain CT

WNHC New Haven, CT

WNHU New Haven University

WNLC New London Connecticut

WNLK Norwalk CT

WNOC Norwich CT (later WICH)

WNPR National Public Radio

WNTY NiNeTY (For 990)

WNVR Naugatuct Valley Radio

WOMN WoMaN

WONS             O'Neil Station or William O'Neill Stn (later WNBC & WPOP)

WOWL            OWL = Southern Ct State College Mascot

WPCT             Putnam CT (later WINY)

WPKN            Purple Knights Network (former licensee UB team)

WPKT Paul K. Taff

WPLR Popular 99

WPOP POPular Music

WQGN GrotoN

WQQQ "Q is the most memorable alphabet letter, so we took 3 to make it memorable, since we're also on 103.3 and started at 333 Main St. in Lakeville (and phone is 860-435-3333) aka "Q-103 FM" (D. Jackson)

WQTQ “CuTey Q”

WQUN Quinnipiac University

WRCH “Rich” also "Radio Corporation of Hartford"

WREF Radio Eight Fifty or RidgEField

WRKI "The road to rock" ie I-95

WRTC Radio Trinity College

WRTT Radio Tri Town (now WCTF)

WRYM “RhYMe”

WSAM Student Association Media (carrier current)

WSCB Southern CT Broadcasting

WSCH South CHurch

WSHU Sacred Heart University

WSLX St. Lukes

WSOR WindSOR

WSNG SiNG 61

WSTC Stamford, Connecticut also Stamford Town Center

WSUB SUBmarine

WTBY WaTerBurY (later WQQW)

WTHT The Hartford Times

WTIC Travelers Insurance Company

WTNH Television New Haven

WTOR TORrington

WTXX Television Twenty

WTYD Tide (New London)

WVFR Voice of Fairfield in Ridgefield

WVOF Voice of Fairfield Univ.

WVIT Viacom International Television

WWCO Waterbury Company

WWEB Wallingford Educational Broadcasting

WWPT WesPorT (Staples HS student decided on this to honor a Westport student-operated semi-pirate that operated in the late 50s & early 60s)

WWUH University of Hartford

WWYZ (the music lovers') Wise choice

WXCI Roman Numerals for “91”

WXCT X (it's memorable) CT?

WYBC Yale Broadcasting Corp

WYSR Your Soft Rock, Your StaR

WZBG Zee Boys and Girls