Call letters shape radio station identities across the nation
A look at how call letters like WAMO WLS WCFL and WACO define station image ownership and history. WINK WARE and others show letters reflect locations formats and even owner changes. Experts note changes driven by market shifts and revamping strategies.
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Federal Communications Commission
Wamo-Am
Ware-Am
Ware
Mass
Wink-Am
Ft. Myers
Fla
Nancy Stewart
Florida
Rhonda Kiefer
Soviets call for ban on space arms
In Moscow, President Chernenko urged a universal ban on space weapons and accused the United States of aiming to turn space into an arena of aggression. He called for nations to sign a Soviet draft treaty prohibiting space weapons and cited U S plans to deploy space anti missile systems. Tass noted the letter was sent to Carl Sagan and Richard Garvin amid ongoing U S Soviet debates.
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Moscow
Konstantin A. Chernenko
United States
Chernenko
U.S
Tass
U.S.A
Washington
Yuri V. Andropov
Soviet Union
Earth
Carl Sagan
Richard Garvin
Reagan
Mondale Edges Jackson for Virginia Delegates at Convention
In Norfolk Virginia the Virginia Democratic convention awarded Walter Mondale 24 delegates to the national convention 22 for Jesse Jackson and 13 for Gary Hart as 19 remained uncommitted in the 78 member slate Mondale gained two delegates Jackson one while Hart increased by six as the uncommitted bloc collapsed and shifts favored Hart within a tossup delegation landscape totaling 78 delegates with 31 to be chosen earlier results noted on Page A-4.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Walter F. Mondale
San Francisco
Mondale
Jesse Jackson
Gary Hart
Hart
Jackson
Possible Showers Inland With Lake Erie Cooler
Rain chances rise today to 60 percent with cloudy skies and a high near 64. Cooler conditions near Lake Erie with a low around 50 and a 30 percent chance of showers tonight. Details on Page A-3.
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Lake Erie
War slips from language as nations redefine conflict
The piece reflection on how the term war has evolved through history from World War II to Korea Vietnam Grenada and Nicaragua argues that modern perceptions blur lines between war and actions like police actions or self defense. It notes Congress debates and the public’s shifting sense of threat while lamenting the fading certainty of what war means.
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Pittsburgh
Debbe Parker
Porky Chedwick
U.S
Ms. Parker
Chicago
WLSAM/FM
Sears
Buddy
Congress
Nicaragua
Korea
Vietnam
Grenada
Water OK again for Rural Lorain County system
The Environmental Protection Agency says all water from the Rural Lorain County Water Authority is safe to use after tests conducted as a precaution following a major line break. The all-clear also covers North Ridgeville, which had urged residents to boil water, tied to seepage into its system.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Lorain County
Torch relay winds through Ohio toward Los Angeles
Thousands cheer as 15 year old Shawn Rastall carries the Olympic flame into Public Square Cleveland after starting from Pittsburgh. Rastall lights another torch before spectators snap souvenir singed bills. Relay routes through Lorain County list times across Huntington Reservation Bay Village Avon Lake Vermilion and Vermilion intersections.
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Cleveland
Shawn Rastall
Public Square
Greece
United States
Los Angeles
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Akron
Rastall
Willowick Junior Thigh School
East Ninth Street
Bay High School
Lorain County
Olympic
Huntington Reservation
Bay Village
Lake Road
Ashland Ave
Avon Lake
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Steve Fogarty
C-T
L.A
California
Mercury
Kroc-Fm
Bangor
Maine
ABC
Regina Hayes
Wcflam
Chicago Federation of Labor
Mutual Broadcasting Network
Waco-Am
Waco
Texas
Mississippi
Robert Weathers
Angel Cordero
Gate Dancer
Milan
Thomas Alva Edison
Edison
Garden
Bop
Lizzie Stephens
THE
White House
Body
New York
Dick Feagler
ASCWA
Millers Road
Avon
RLCWA
EPA
ACLWA
ALCWA
LaGrange
Tim Mahoney
Weery Mahoney
Sheffield
Lorain
Baumhart Road
Vermilion
Linwood Park
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