The Elderberries by Corey Pandolph and Phil Frank and Joe Troise for April 21, 2010

As do I….

Radar was a good announcer, too.

appropriate call letters, KNAP = ZZZZZZZZZZ

Elderpark must be located west of the Mississippi, where radio station call letters begin with “K”, instead of “W”.

KDKAam & KQVam are in Pittsburgh.

I want to hear some of Dusty’s music.

I think Dusty must be pretty cool if he knows how kids these days use the word “mash-up” in that way. Unlike some older folks, for example one octogenarian lady I know who - when she gets really, really annoyed - says she’s “pissed out.”

Joe Allen, I don’t remember that it was a P.A. broadcast - wouldn’t that get impossibly annoying to the residents? I would have assumed it was one of those 10-watt radio stations (they usually carry 2-8 miles) that can operate without a license if they’re slightly outside the broadcast band limits, such as 1610 AM or 87.9 FM. The equipment is real cheap.

grapf, it sounds like Pittsburgh pioneered radio sufficiently to have got a couple of stations grandfathered into call letters prior to the Mississippi River rule. There’s also a Canadian border rule - stations north of the border begin with C. (Why all their airport codes seem to start with a Y, I can’t imagine.)

I too really love the Elderpark call letters, by the way. For their slogan, they can use, “It’s KNAP time!” If they happen to throw the wrong switch and send out “dead air”, they can say, “Oops - that was our KNAP!” Etc. Just my comedy musings. I’m obviously a graduate of the Toby School of Standup.

@grapfhics Re: KDKA and KQV

Those radio station call letters pre-date the FCC’s “East of the Mississippi starts with W, west starts with K” decision, and were grandfathered in.