The call letters WXRT

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Posted by KRM on May 19, 2009 at 11:32:05:

I am trying to find out the meaning of the call letters "WXRT" for a book I am writing on the history of Chicago Radio, 1921 to the present time. I know that these call letters were originally used in the early 1950s as WSBC-AM's FM station. WXRT then used to furnish elevator music for Jewel Food Store shoppers. WXRT, at 101.9 on the FM dial, went off the air in 1951 after it lost its Jewel franchise to WEAW-FM. The call letters reappeared in the early 1960s, replacing WSBC-FM. No one at WXRT seems to know the meaning of their call letters. It could be possible they don't stand for anything.

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: I am trying to find out the meaning of the call letters "WXRT" for a book I am writing on the history of Chicago Radio, 1921 to the present time. I know that these call letters were originally used in the early 1950s as WSBC-AM's FM station. WXRT then used to furnish elevator music for Jewel Food Store shoppers. WXRT, at 101.9 on the FM dial, went off the air in 1951 after it lost its Jewel franchise to WEAW-FM. The call letters reappeared in the early 1960s, replacing WSBC-FM. No one at WXRT seems to know the meaning of their call letters. It could be possible they don't stand for anything.

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