How to Use call letters in a Sentence

call letters

plural noun
  • The soundtrack of your life probably passed through these call letters.
    — Nicole Alvarez, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Depending on how much the call letters went for at auction, this might be one of the best business deals of the year.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • To work here and have its call letters on my resume, a legendary station like this one, is an honor and privilege.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, AZCentral.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The costume featured a papier mache head and red cloth body with the station’s call letters affixed across the front.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2019
  • The call letters would be transferred for free with the sale of the intellectual properties.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • People who drive vans emblazoned with a television station’s call letters are obvious targets.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Its station call letters feature no vowels yet remain unprintable nonetheless.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • It's first run ended in 1987 and the iconic call letters went to a station in Greensburg, Kentucky.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2018
  • The network’s stations group revealed plans to change the call letters to those outlets in several markets, as well as primetime plans for those stations going forward.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Rokita's campaign said the ad was booked by accident, after someone confused the Ohio station's call letters with another one closer to home.
    — Brian Slodysko, Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The classic four-digit call letters for KPCC and the other stations won’t completely disappear.
    — Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The call letters stand for K Radio Trinity University.
    — René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • There was insufficient control over station call letters, how licenses were assigned, and on what frequencies the radio stations operated.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
  • While other stations have changed formats, personnel and call letters, V-103 has continued to play what used to be known as R&B; or soul music, often by many of the same disc jockeys.
    — Eric Siegel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Oct. 2018
  • News will continue on KNX (1070 AM), which has not had the AM call letters mentioned in its on-air marketing since the simulcast began in December of 2021.
    — Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Mason began courting Boers in 1991, ahead of WSCR’s debut on the second day of 1992 with call letters secured from a recently shuttered station in Scranton, Pa.
    — Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The call letters from the celebrated TV sitcom are for sale from a North Carolina broadcaster that is auctioning them off to TV or radio stations, according to the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • During filming earlier this year on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, a software engineer on X posted a photo of a building there dressed up like a TV station with fake call letters, KCXE, on the front.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Back then, the WWJ-TV call letters were used by Detroit's NBC 4, now WDIV-TV, while the associated radio station, though later purchased by CBS, was owned by Scripps and affiliated with NBC Radio.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026

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