Wow, it's odd you would post this. I've been seeing a lot of this too while out walking the pooch, although the frequency never matches. I thought I was the only one who noticed this ephemera.

Most are from stations that are out of town - CJAY is a common one in my area, a station located in Calgary. 

... also saw a CFNY plate in Collingwood on the weekend.  Was Geets in town??

Lots of CKLW plates around London 

They're everywhere right now. Have seen one match CHTZ 977 (and pretty sure it wasn't a station vehicle or the PDs car or anything)

spotted a late model SUV in Burlington this morning with CKFM ### plates.

Probably just the letter sequence of plates currently being manufactured and released.

Just to carry this one step too far, there's a truck I pass every day, usually parked in someone's driveway. The final few letters of the plate catch my attention every time: 9RB.

Those were, of course, CFRB's call letters when it was testing after first signing on the air way back in the late 1920s.

Bought a new vehicle at the end of July and the licence plate is CKFM, but the numbers are not 999.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets a kick out of the Call letter licence plates. CFTR is a common one in the K-W area. Still haven't seen CFTR 680 though.

Spotted this week in Port Huron: an Ontario plate with the letters CJBC and numbers in the low 800s, on a car with a Kingston dealer's license plate frame.

The house down the block has a pickup truck with Arizona plates whose letters are WSM. I see it every time I go to town / come home. Older AZ plates have three numbers followed by three letters, making 650-WSM possible if the plate owner still has a vehicle registered.

Last edited by TomSanders (November 8, 2019 2:05 pm)

RadioActive wrote:

I actually saw CHCH in a parking lot last week. Also twice, I've seen CJRT, although the numbers weren't close to 91.1

Since I was driving I couldn't snap a pic but the other day saw a plate with CKEY 590. Coincidence or custom for a former radio person?

RadioActive wrote:

I actually saw CHCH in a parking lot last week. Also twice, I've seen CJRT, although the numbers weren't close to 91.1

Was it a CHCH vehicle? I believe all their news vehicle plates read CHCH 01, CHCH 02, etc.

Last edited by Brad (November 9, 2019 2:53 pm)

I play Radio license plates all the time. It's great fun. One I saw today  amused me -- CKWL 008.
To semi-quote the Original Star Trek pilot episode, all the parts were there, they just didn't know how to put them together.

RadioActive wrote:

This is an old thread, but here's a new story about a Texas radio station that wasn't allowed to use its own call letters on a licence plate. See if the reason makes sense to you - or your teenage kid.  

KGAF radio told its call letters are too vulgar for a Texas license plate

It's the most unimportant story you'll read today, but just to finish off this ridiculous tale, they finally let the guy have his plate.

Radio station finally gets license plate initially declared 'vulgar' 

Meanwhile, someone on E bay is trying to sell Yukon Licence plates that may or may not have anything to do with CBC radio or television.  
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/374536800489?hash=item57342208e9:g:ueoAAOSwqIljmIxC&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8OBGRQ3Eb%2FLnKAmSGwcEfxAzvJuGkeRgkyCuDWkU%2Fab3WziKklsaLDPw6alM5zysZo4SJVGFQcLticUCN4dyIbGf%2B8OtF3gRFeE%2BMtVu1Zxx7xt30Lg3heRS1GbgG8t7cfUGe%2Bq64lgblaSUA4%2BcjNKBrvFOGR01iwS2W00NvFFCj4X%2BBk%2B5V8XZiH6ZU2%2FFuZHpTKd5U8pC4Bz4IeHzNLXAwAh7cFjRLmQgpbG5%2BDiCHsN5ILwkgUp6m2JiU%2BYUcJh13ekq60QJfImiXtqtGAlodsxzaQjUFFDlm2Xeg26Ml%2FVnJwfn%2FZ6kC4ThHrJuMA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7D3gs2aYg



 

Here in London, they have been issuing the CKLW series. If I ever see CKLW 800, I hope I can get a photo of it..