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In the United States, all radio and television broadcasting stations that are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are assigned official, distinct call signs. Organized broadcasting began in the U.S. in the early 1920s on the AM band — FM and television did not exist yet.
Low power digital TV stations, including translators, that still have alphanumeric call signs based on their channel number receive a "–D" suffix, as in W08EG-D. [15] The FCC makes no differentiation between translating and originating LPTV stations, thus either type of station could have an alphanumeric or a regular "-LP" or "-LD" call sign.
List of AM radio stations in the United States by call sign (initial letters KN–KS) List of AM radio stations in the United States by call sign (initial letters KT–KZ) List of AM radio stations in the United States by call sign (initial letters WA–WF) List of AM radio stations in the United States by call sign (initial letters WG–WM)
This is a list of FM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters KN through KP. Low-power FM radio stations, those with designations such as KNAK-LP, have not been included in this list.
In Mexico, AM radio stations use XE call signs (such as XEW-AM), while the majority of FM radio and television stations use XH. Broadcast callsigns are normally four or five letters in length, plus the -FM or -TV suffix where applicable, though several older stations have only three letters. The longest callsign is six letters, plus suffix ...
Call signs are allocated to ham radio stations in Barbados, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Many countries have specific conventions for classifying call signs by transmitter characteristics and location. The call sign format for radio and television call signs follows a number of conventions.
Some full-powered stations (such as WOIO, WXMI and WLS-TV) have been granted approval for fill-in translators within their broadcast market to better cover outlying towns or heavily urbanied areas, particularly by stations with a VHF digital signal. These are technically -LD stations, but have the same call-sign as their parent station (such as ...
Callsign Frequency City of license KCAA: 1050 AM: Loma Linda, California: KCAB: 980 AM: Dardanelle, Arkansas: KCAL: 1410 AM: Redlands, California: KCAM: 790 AM ...