Station picks worst possible call letters
Cory Bergman July 29th, 2007
A Honolulu newspaper had to point out to KM Communications that the call letters it selected for its new low-power digital station in Maui were… well, highly objectionable. The new station name? KUNT. “(It’s) extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately,” wrote Kevin Bae, VP of KM Communications. (Thanks, discreet_chaos for the link of the week!)
23 Comments Add your own
1. tdc | July 29th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
link of the YEAR!
2. tdc | July 29th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
just think if they used the line “Where you come first”.
3. Don Day | July 29th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
My favorite is KCUF-FM in Colorado…
I just can’t stop thinking the station could use “F*ck backwards” as its positioner.
4. Anonymous | July 29th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Don’t touch that dial. You’ve got KUNT on it.
5. lol | July 29th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
This is so Family Guy.
Peter Griffin: Hey Brian! Brian… Brian! They named their station after Lindsay Lohan…
Brian: Hi-yo!!!
Peter Griffin: Hehehehehehehehehe… it means v*gina.
6. news director @ WAHB | July 29th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I see nothing wrong with those call letters whatsoever.
7. Steve Safran | July 29th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Astonishingly enough, that station could have had its call letters as a .FM or .AM URL if it wanted to. Both are still available. How the porn podcasters are missing such an obvious opportunity, I can’t say…
8. es el queso | July 29th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Radio K U N T…. Maui!
9. haha | July 29th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone is attracted to buying the station for it’s call letters. Perfect for a shock-jock talk radio station.
10. haha | July 29th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Oh, here’s an idea. Lets start a station and call it K R A P.
11. Fernando | July 29th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Coverage you can count on.
12. discreet_chaos | July 29th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
When they go live, there could be a fluff piece in the local paper “Inside KUNT”, or if they ever have a scandal “KUNT insiders say…”
13. Z | July 30th, 2007 at 5:27 am
I was always a fan of KDUH myself (Scottsbluff, Nebraska ABC station)
14. ARB | July 30th, 2007 at 5:40 am
There’s a story/rumor/urban legend that those call letters were briefly used by a station out of the University of North Texas (in Denton) at some time in the past.
15. Safran | July 30th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Filthiest… LR thread… EVER…
16. ! | July 30th, 2007 at 6:06 am
yeah, i couldn’t wait to get online this morning and see all the great comments since last night either, safran.
17. Hussman | July 30th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Personally I think they shoudl keep those call letters, and try and form a JSA or LMA with the station down the street. Their call letters? Why KOCK of course.
Those two were made for each other.
18. Joe | July 30th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Oh, they should grow a pair and keep it. The only way to break the US hangup about swear words is to find ways to mainstream them and lower the shock value.
19. anon | July 30th, 2007 at 7:13 am
WTF you KCUFing KUNT !
bwaahahahaha!
20. Jordan | July 30th, 2007 at 7:35 am
KUNT stop that speeding KUNT news van!
21. Swift Loris | July 30th, 2007 at 10:32 am
The host of the blog Hoffmania has the best line I’ve seen so far. His post on the indelicate call letters is headed, “The TV Station That’s a Little Fuzzy, but You Can Get It In.”
He comments, “Hey, I waited 27 years to use that joke.”
22. Rob | July 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
The other station call letters KM Communications purchased was KWTF for a station in Arizona.
Which begs the question KWTF were they thinking?
23. Anonymous | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 am
What’s wrong with KUNT??? I don’t get it….
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