[Boatanchors] Random question..

[Richard Dillman]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:27 PM John Poulton <jp at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

A friend asked me a question about a curious little factoid from old TV
> shows:
>
> In many Jack Webb TV shows from the 70's'ish, like Adam 12 and
> Emergency, they often end transmissions with "KMA" or "KMA367" which is
> City of LA's call sign.
>
> Why would individual users identify at random times?
> Is this just made up TV usage?
>
> Anyone know whether this was for real?  Just idle curiosity..
>

They wouldn't.  They did this in the radio version of the Dragnet show too
(one of the best produced radio shows ever in my opinion).  In some of the
very early shows they used the four letter LAPD MF transmitter call sign.
I bet you and I may be one of the very few who have noticed this!  I
suspect they did that for the sake of what they considered authenticity.

And now, for the truly obsessed, what's connection to the name "Rosenquist"

RD

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Richard Dillman, WPE2VT
Collector of Heavyweight Radios
Inverness Ridge, CA
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