Steve, you're absolutely right. KYW belonged to a station in
Cleveland, and they changed at that time to WWWE, and WWWE in
Philadelphia became KYW. I was listening during the call changes.
Reeva Parry.
On Monday 4/16/2007 09:48 PM, Steve Forst said:
>Not sure of the origin of the KYW call, but my recollection is that when
>Westinghouse bought the station in Philly, they brought the KYW call sign
>from some place in Ohio. Cleveland sticks in my mind but I wouldn't swear
>to it.
>
>It was over 40 years ago and my biggest concern was getting out of the
>fourth grade.
>
>Here is a link with some info on origins of some radio and TV station
>calls.
>http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/origins.call-list.html
>
>Steve KW3A