What does KBBL stand for?
HighFlag
>Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
>actually stands for?
I interpreted it to mean K-Babble(talk radio)...of course, since they
had 3 clergymen on, I suppose it could have been K-Bible...but Rabbi
Krustofsky would read the Torah...so, I'll stick with my original
thought...
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Wil
: Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
: actually stands for?
babble
In the episode: "KBBL is gonna give me something stupid"
(when Bart wins the elephant) the station DJ's jobs are
threatened with the DJ-3000 machine that plays CDs automatically
and has 'three distinct varieties of inane chatter'
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>
>Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
>actually stands for?
In North America, we assign three or four
'call letters' to television and radio stations. In Canada, all broadcasting
stations are "C---", in Mexico it's "X---" and in the United States it is
divided geographically -- in the east, the stations
are "W---" and in the west, the stations are "K---".
Many broadcast stations use the rest of the letters (or the whole call
name if they're clever) to be an acronym or spell out a word or
phonetically abbreviate it. "BBL" is the phonetic abbreviation of "babble"
(it IS a talk radio station, if I'm not mistaken), so KBBL means
K-Babble.
ELson
OnAnother Thread: So we know for sure Springfield is in the west.
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Adrian King
>bio...@iconz.co.nz wrote:
>: Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
>: actually stands for?
> babble
>In the episode: "KBBL is gonna give me something stupid"
>(when Bart wins the elephant) the station DJ's jobs are
>threatened with the DJ-3000 machine that plays CDs automatically
>and has 'three distinct varieties of inane chatter'
Well as the station id says:
"No Sport, No Rock, No In-for-mation.
For mindless chatter, we're your station!"
Adrian King
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> Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
> actually stands for?
I was always under the impression that it was K-Babble
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Chuck Dieringer
> In article <4cdc7a$o...@status.gen.nz>, bio...@iconz.co.nz writes:
>
> >Does anyone have an idea as to what KBBL, their local radio station,
> >actually stands for?
>
> I interpreted it to mean K-Babble(talk radio)...of course, since they
> had 3 clergymen on, I suppose it could have been K-Bible...but Rabbi
> Krustofsky would read the Torah...so, I'll stick with my original
> thought...
>
K-babble
"No sports! No rock! No information!
For mindless chatter...we're your station!"
Chuck "the Babbler" Dieringer
Donald D. Henderson
the tower of Babel, where nobody could understand what each other was
saying? This seems to fit as well as babble and has a deeper meaning.
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Jason919
only time this station has ever been shown, and the scene was eventually
cut. On the elephant episode, Bart went on a station called KNKR. the
announcer says, "KNKR radio. Canker soars...above the rest!"
Jason Eudy
: >: Wrong. There are *some* K stations in the east, and some
: >: W stations in the west. Most notably, the news station in
: >: Philadelphia <which is quite obviously east> is KYW news radio.
: >: <interesting, as well, that it only has three, not four, call letters>.
: >WBT in Charlotte only has 3 call letters. Perhaps this is a symptom of the
: >radio station being really really old.
: KGW is both a TV station AND an AM radio station they own in Portland (OR),
: and HAVE owned for about forty million years.
That seems to settle it. Aparently about 40 million years ago, radio stations
only had 3 call letters but then they realized they needed more.
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Kwang Soo Suh
: : Wrong. There are *some* K stations in the east, and some
: : W stations in the west. Most notably, the news station in
: Just for the record - all radio call signs start with K or W. In the
: distant past, this was a distinction between military and civilian
: broadcasting stations, but does does have that distinction anymore. There
: is no geographical significance.
Very interesting. How do you explain CJAY in Calgary?
Chiogu Ebede
>Need more evidence? Check your local TV stations -- all started after
>the Mississippi system -- if they are east, they start with W, if they
>are west they start with K.
>
I live near Philly and 1 TV station is called KYW. Last time I
checked, Philly was east of the Mississipi.
Adam Rubin
>after
>>>the Mississippi system -- if they are east, they start with W, if
>they
>>>are west they start with K.
I know of just one exception to each. KDKA is in Pittsburgh, PA; it
was one of the country's earliest radio stations. (It's now TV and
radio.) Radio station WACO is in, of course, Waco, TX. I believe
both stations were using their current call letters before the east/
west distinction was started.
Adam
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On 21 Jan 1996, Brian C Kalt wrote:
> Paul Wright (pwr...@netcom.com) wrote:
> : Just for the record - all radio call signs start with K or W. In the
> : distant past, this was a distinction between military and civilian
> : broadcasting stations, but does does have that distinction anymore. There
> : is no geographical significance.
>
> What the hell are you talking about? K means west of the Mississippi, W
> means east. There are a few exceptions; very old stations, licensed
> before the current distinction arose.
>
> Need more evidence? Check your local TV stations -- all started after
> the Mississippi system -- if they are east, they start with W, if they
> are west they start with K.
>
> Also, "all" of them don't start with K or W -- only *American* call
> letters do. Canada's start with C, etc. We aren't the only country in
> the world, man.
>
> Anyway, this tells us that Springfield is probably west of, or very
> near, the Mississippi.
>
> Brian "Last name is also a radio station in Texas" Kalt
>
>
Thomas V. DelRosario
: Okay, Well, almost all stations are 4 letters.
In DC there is WRC. In Baltimore there is WJZ.
The Duck of Death
>Kwang Soo Suh (ks...@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
>: Very interesting. How do you explain CJAY in Calgary?
>
>
>all canadian stations start with the letter C, we don't follow teh
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Two people called the Duck of Death. Freaky...
and on the subject: I always though that the BBL stod for "babble" as is
silly talk, like many radio stations broadcast... :)
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Swogal
PA; it
was one of the country's earliest radio stations. (It's now TV and
radio.) Radio station WACO is in, of course, Waco, TX. I believe
both stations were using their current call letters before the east/
west distinction was started.
WOAI in San Antonio TX, WBAP in Dallas TX are two other Radio exceptions.
Guy Incognito
>
I don't know if it makes any difference whatsoever, but in last nights
episode, The Babysitter Bandit, when Bill and Marty actually said,
"K-Babble"
I think that this clears things up. Although it seems that the
denziens of a.t.s still never listen to reason.
Later,
John
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Michael Rosencrantz
: In <4ek3nf$1...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> swo...@aol.com (Swogal) writes:
: >
Well, the fact that there is a K instead of a W would narrow down the
actual location of Springfield. Only stations west of the Mississippi
have a K at the start of their call letters.
Tony Stott
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