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August 23, 2007
File This Under "Your Tax Dollars At Work"
Those eagle-eyed protectors of impressionable youth at the FCC strike again
THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui.Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a
15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and
released this week.The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in Arizona.
Imagine their advertising jingles.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at August 23, 2007 03:27 PM
Comments
My eyes!!! My EYES!!!!!
Posted by: tree hugging sister at August 23, 2007 03:32 PM
Hmmm.
I'd kill for the call letter "KWTF".
Posted by: memomachine at August 23, 2007 04:36 PM
If I didn't know better, I'd figure KUNT for an Air America talk radio station.
Posted by: Cullen at August 24, 2007 06:29 AM
I *hope* KWTF has fun with it. I hope they don't turn all, "Oh, we didn't KNOW what those letters STOOD FOR" and totally ignore the great comic possibility.
I'm already hearing "K-WTF!" in my head, sung by one of those female choirs they used to have doing the call letters of stations. And I'm chuckling over it.
Posted by: ricki at August 24, 2007 06:59 AM
There was a sketch on SNL with some "Up With People" knock-off group, each of the four standing for a different happy quality:
Understanding
Caring
Kindness
Friendship
The whole sketch consisted of a horrified children's show host trying to prevent their T-shirts from spelling out a certain Friday word.
"We should really move Friendship up to the top of the list!"
NOOOOOOOO!
Posted by: nightfly at August 24, 2007 11:30 AM