[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Jay Weigel]

When I was in college in Wisconsin I used to listen to Radio Canada late at
night while studying simply because it was the one that played classical
music. "Ici Radio Canada...."

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
wrote:

> My impression was that Canada got C, because there are so many different
> ones I have heard...but Wikipedia helped steer me in the right
> direction.
>
> Canada has some stations that start with CB (for the CBC, Canadian
> Broadcasting Corporation), through a special arrangement with the
> government of Chile since CB is part of their allocation.
>
> On its own, Canada is allocated radio call signs beginning with CF
> through CK and CY and CZ, as well as VA through VG, VO (which was the
> prefix for Newfoundland before it joined Canada), VX and VY, XJ through
> XO. But most of these are not used for commercial broadcast.
>
> Wikipedia says on a page about Canadian FM broadcasting that "Canadian
> station normally use call letters from the CFAA-CFZZ and CHAA-CKZZ
> blocks" and that fits with my recollection of stations near where I used
> to live.
>
> Kristin
> way too interested in radio stuff
>
> --
>   Kristin Rollins
>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>   Portsmouth, VA
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015, at 09:10 AM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> > Yes. All radio & TV station call letters are assigned by country: The US
> > gets K and W; Canada gets CK and (some others which start with C). CNBC
> > doesn't count as it's not an on-the-air TV station. Britain gets G, etc..
>