Talk:WSB (AM)

ALLEN HUNT SHOW ALLEN HUNT is the host of The Allen Hunt Show however, Alan Hunt, another WSB employee since 1996, is the executive producer of GA Bulldogs broadcasts and the Bulldog Network. He fills in for Royal Marshall to produce Neal Boortz.

User:ljwilliamson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.85.63 (talk) 14:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

We Suck Butts
Please do not keep removing the reference to Neal Boortz's candid definition of the WSB call letters. This is common knowledge, and Mr. Boortz freely admits to it.


 * Indeed, he does, however, it is not paramount to the encyclopedic entry on WSB radio. The comment may be better served on the Neal Boortz entry. --Mhking 02:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Better question: Do 3-letter call signs actually stand for anything? I understood that they were simply assigned to stations in the early days of radio -- the owners took what they got. Goeverywhere 20:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The W is simply any station east of the Mississippi river. The SB meant/means "Southern Broadcasting"Z07 (talk) 03:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In many early cases, the letters actually did stand for something, and were specifically requested with that in mind. --Mhking 03:21, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, they often do, and still do.

Chicago station, WLS which was owned by Sears stood for Worlds Largest Store Local rock stations WKLS are the initials of the original owners & WNNX Ninety Nine X. Teamgoon 14:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In some cases, stations do request specific callsigns - but this is based on whichever calls are not already in use. The first radio stations were radiotelegraph and served primarily to communicate with ships at sea. As these started being issued just after the turn of the century, many of the three-letter calls would already be on coastal stations or ships at sea long before the start of most broadcast stations (1920's). As ships were sold to other countries, shipwrecked or removed from service, their three letter callsigns would become available for land-based stations, including broadcasters. By 1920, new ships would receive sequentially-assigned four-letter callsigns (broadcasters like KDKA were occasionally assigned from this same sequential block). A broadcaster could likely get a three-letter call as late as 1930, if it specifically requested one, but many of the available short callsigns were already in use on coastal stations. This page indicates WSB had been a ship's radio call; the first ship to use it was shipwrecked on the Oregon coast, the second (named Firwood or Firewood per the original source) was destroyed by fire. Entirely possible that no subsequent ship wanted the WSB calls, given their history, so they landed ashore. Odds are that the call was requested in 1922 not just because it could be marketed as "welcome south", "we suck balls", "southern broadcasting" or whatever other arbitrary backronym but because when these three letters were requested they were the best-suited of the few available. Many of the 1352 possible three letter Kxx and Wxx calls were already in use on ship-to-shore radiotelegraph, so pickings were limited. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 17:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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Former Personalities
The "Former Personalities" section needs work. It doesn't alphabetize correctly. Given names and surnames appear confused. Can someone straighten things out? Rammer (talk) 00:34, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Fixed, by deleting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.16.237.230 (talk) 15:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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