Why television and radio station call letters begin with a "W" east of the MS and a "K" west of the MS.

Question

MS- Mississippi

Answer 1

Not all TV and radio stations are like that. There is one of each where it does not apply. KDKA has a radio and a TV station well east of the Mississippi river in Pittsburgh Pa. After they were founded a regulation was put in place where a W was to start the callsign of a station east of the Mississippi and a K for those west of the Mississippi.
This was done to help with keeping track of all broadcast facilities as the industry grew.

Answer 2

Initially US was assigned letters W, K, N and A by an international broadcast committee. N and A were reserved for military, W and K for commercial broadcasters. Later on the FCC standardized station call letters to 4 letters, W for eastern locations and K for western. So you will find some stations with call letters that don't follow this rule.

Answer 3

goes back to the federal radi act of 1934. KDKA started the trend
by having the first call letters, which happened to start with a K.
W does make sense as standing for west, and you would think they would have worked with the K for east as the station was the first with call letter, but leave it to the gov't to obscure and confuse. Read about the Petagon to see what I mean.
A few stations west of the mississippi have W call letters,
WHO and WMT.

both of these W stations exist in Iowa to this day, believe in or not

http://www.wmtradio.com/main.html

http://www.whoradio.com/main.html

and the first station is still around to this day....

http://www.kdkaradio.com/

Answer 4

It was a decision by the FCC as Radio spread across the country. Some of the older stations don't fit that pattern. KDKA in Pittsburgh for example.

Answer 5

merely becoz Bengalis did no longer locate any reason to alter the call, what else ? actual nevertheless many Bengalis are very sentimental in this concern as they nevertheless can no longer settle for the partition between ppl who communicate the comparable language & 've cultural proximity.

Answer 6

Because that is just the way it is.

Answer 7

To make it more interesting.