In what can only be described as utter irony, the FCC has given two local television stations call letters that either spell out or stand for dirty words. In Maui, it's KUNT. Yes, those are the real call letters given to a low-power digital station in Wailuku, Maui. The station is still under construction so no one has seen KUNT Action News as of yet--or maybe it's KUNT On Your Side.The other station is KWTF in Arizona. Now, this one I like. I think I'd keep it. I'd make my motto, "Hey! KWTF is happening in Arizona!"
Both stations are owned by KM Communications, which actually requested those call letters. The vice president of the company claims he (metaphorically) "fell asleep on the job" when it came to requesting call letters. Yeah, right. Either he's a dirty, dirty man or he's extremely stupid for letting some high school-age employee choose the stations' call letters.
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7-27-2007 @ 5:04PM
Ghosty said...
Stupid? You're kidding me - it's GENIUS. I'm certainly curious as to what that Maui station's format will be. Erotica? ... Women's programming, perhaps?
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7-27-2007 @ 5:03PM
Scott said...
I can understand KWTF, but I cannot believe that this prudish, dictatorial, scaredy-cat FCC could POSSIBLY have approved KUNT. Were they all off at Bible study when the request came in?
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7-27-2007 @ 5:13PM
Scott said...
this just shows how much the FCC pays attention when some overactive group isn't all over them with questionable complaints.
long live the lazy american and his even lazier bureaucrat
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7-27-2007 @ 5:47PM
pete said...
"long live the lazy american and his even lazier bureaucrat ."
thats gold jerry! gold!!!
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7-27-2007 @ 6:19PM
Kenban said...
No one at the FCC approves the call letters anymore. Its an automated process.
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7-27-2007 @ 8:19PM
Doug said...
The obvious joke here is this:
Sure, it's a bit fuzzy, but soon, everyone will get it...
/I know, I know...bad joke...
//please, don't throw tomatoes...
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7-27-2007 @ 10:22PM
VibroCount said...
The FCC was not involved, but I DJed at a pirate AM radio station called KCUF (Radio 69), in 1968.
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7-27-2007 @ 10:45PM
MacGuffin said...
I like how the company (KM) acted surprised when they heard that KUNT and KWTF was considered obscene by the community.
"You mean that the phonetic word k-u-n-t is objectionable to half of our audience???? So sorry . . . didn't know that"
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7-28-2007 @ 12:20AM
JohnDaley said...
Don't forget KOCK in South Carolina and KCUF in Nashville.
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7-28-2007 @ 12:22AM
ShannonTova said...
And KLIT in Peoria: http://tinyurl.com/2hbda5
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7-28-2007 @ 1:05AM
ryanknapper said...
This is just awesome.
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7-28-2007 @ 3:32AM
Ben said...
The Universty of North Texas was supposed to get the call letters KUNT but someone caught it and so they got KNTU.
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7-28-2007 @ 1:26PM
wingdo said...
The KNTU call letters being changed are an urban legend. The call letters we requested as KNTU because at the time the school was known as North Texas University.
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7-28-2007 @ 6:15PM
hessian said...
True story:
In northeast Arkansas, about 15 minutes west of Memphis, TN there's a little building along the side of the Highway 64 that's been everything from a gas station to a second hand store over the past 30 years.
It's in a little bend-in-the-road 'town' named Ebony.
It apparently was once a radio station - as the call letters are still displayed on the front of the building - KUHN.
Yep, coon radio. In Ebony, Arkansas.
I have photos.
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8-30-2007 @ 4:05PM
Thomas Chura, Jr. said...
KNFW!!!
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8-30-2007 @ 4:12PM
Thomas Chura, Jr. said...
KWFC!!!!
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