What do the call letters of your local TV and radio station signify?

KFOG, for the SF fog. In the air, everywhere.
KABL, for the Cable Cars
KRON, Chronicle Broadcasting
KCBS, The Worlds First Radio Station.
KLOK The clock.
KQAK the Quake (looks more like the Quack)

WTVF television in Nashvile stands for television five. they are located on channel five on the television selector.

KRVM: Keeping Real Variety in Music
KLCC: K Lane Community College

We have WHOI- Heart of Illinois
that’s the only one I can think of at the moment

Ah, New York City. We have a lot of stations:

WNBC Channel 4 – the National Broadcasting Company’s flagship station

WABC Channel 7 – the American Broadcasting Company’s flagship station

WCBS Channel 2 – the Columbia Broadcasting System’s flagship station

WPIX Channel 11 – a CW affiliate, was founded by the New York Daily News, which calls itself “New York’s Picture Newspaper”, ergo, PIX. The call letters just were never changed even when the News sold the station.

WNET Channel 13 – a Public Broadcasting Service affiliate. Originally N ational E ducational T elevision, the precursor to PBS. When the US Government ordered them dismantled in 1969, a station in the New York area bought it up and reused the letters for the new station.

WWOR Channel 9 – a MyNetwork affiliate; the call letters mean nothing and were assigned by the FCC. They used to belong to a ship called the SS California.

WNYW Channel 5 – Fox affiliate, stands for What New Yorkers Watch. Used to be WNEW (for New York), and before that, WABD, when it was a DuMont station in the 1950s. ABD were the initials of Allen B, DuMont.

WLIW Channel 21 – PBS affiliate for Long Island, but their programming reaches the city. Their call letters stand for “Long Island West”, as their headquarters in Garden City is on the western end of Long Island.

WNYE Channel 25 – New York Education; a city-owned local station, but not public access.

WPXN Channel 31 – Ion Network’s (fromerly the Pax Network) flagship station; named after PaXsoN Communications.

The first “educational television” station in the Boston area, WGBH, was named for the Great Blue Hills, where the transmitter was located.

Radio stations in the UK tend to have proper names rather than just acronyms. Virgin, Imagine, Kiss, Signal, Kerrang, are a few that I can remember off the top of my head (of course the usual BBC stations, Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 etc.)

I always wondered why the K was so popular and what it stands for.

Almost all TV and radio stations west of the Mississippi (with one or two exceptions) must have call letters starting with K, per the Bureau of Navigation in the early 1910s (radios originally being uses for transport purposes and not broadcasting). Here’s the straight dope.

Yes, how to make TV shows and films, and TV and film history. That’s what I learned at uni!

Chicago has had several:

WGN – World’s Greatest Newspaper (Chicago Tribune, still affiliated)
WLS – World’s Largest Store (Sears, Roebuck & Co., now owned by ABC)
WCFL (AM) – W plus CFL for _Chicago Federation of Labor (1926–1987)
WIND (AM) – Chicago is known as the “WINDy City”.

BTW, Chicago’s first educational TV station was WTTW (your Window To The World)