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It's a radio call sign: K because it's West of the Mississippi River, UT for the University of Texas, and three letters because the license dates to 1925 before
by jefftk 3y ago
It's a radio call sign: K because it's West of the Mississippi River, UT for the University of Texas, and three letters because the license dates to 1925 before the FCC completely moved to four letters.
- louwrentius 3y agoI understand, but it spells a rude word for “vagina” in Dutch.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoEnglish has the same word but they put one more letter in it.
- mannykannot 3y agoThere is a University of Northern Texas - a public research university in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It has a radio station, callsign KNTU.
- pests 3y agoLovely. Imagine someone trying to explain why a radio station is named C*T lmao, it would get changed so fast.
- stevehawk 3y agoi'm sure you understand why that is not particularly important to a small American radio station
- sidewndr46 3y agoAs someone living in Texas, I can assure you Texans do not take kindly to the idea of one of our radio stations being called 'small'
- selimthegrim 3y agoWeren’t all the border blasters in Mexico
- tinus_hn 3y agoYou better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.