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TIL All radio stations have a four-letter identification code. In a 1912 Conference, the United States was given the letters W, K, N, and A. ‘N’ and ‘A’ were given to military stations, Commercial Radio stations east of the Mississippi River used ‘W’, and west of the Mississippi ‘K’.

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