why do so many radio and television news stations in the US use four-letter acronyms as their names? (ex. WFSB, KLAN)
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Radio station names (known as call signs) are assigned by the FCC, and they have a set of rules in place they use when assigning names.
The reason radio stations start with “W” or “K” is because in 1912 when the federal government first licensed radio stations, broadcasting stations were generally assigned call signs beginning with “K” when their community of license is located in the west, and with “W” in the east. The original boundary line ran northward from the Texas-New Mexico border. In early 1923 the boundary was moved to its present location of the Mississippi River, in order to better balance the populations in the two regions.
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