Useless Information! AKA Trivia that you cannot live without!

[C0LLETTE]

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Did YOU know radio call letters west of the Mississippi begin with the letter "K"? East of the Mississippi begin with the letter "W."



In 1928, the Federal Radio Commission decided on a few rules that remain in effect to this day:

* all radio/TV call names were required to be four letters in length

* stations east of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘W’

* stations west of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘K’

No I didn't know this and it's really interesting.

DYK that Trump's grandfather had to flee Germany to dodge the military draft; ran brothels in Seattle and New York; and was never "Swedish".

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I found this out this morning...

How thin is a lightning bolt???

The width of a thumb and hotter than the sun
While the intensity of a lightning strike can make them appear as thick bolts across the sky, the actual width of a lightning bolt is only about 2-3 cm.,

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Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

No I didn't know this and it's really interesting.

DYK that Trump's grandfather had to flee Germany to dodge the military draft, ran brothels in Seattle and New York, and was never "Swedish."

Were radio and TV stations that only had three letters in their call sign "grand-fathered" in that 1928 ruling?
We have WLS and 6+ others. They're primarily radio stations, but some are television.